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Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker (2019)
What elevates entertainment into art is, I suppose, how it expands the views and understanding of life of the audience. Now weird as it is, the newest (and supposedly last) Star Wars episode did somet...
27.12.2019 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Grace Livingston Hill: Marcia Schuyler
Grace Livingston Hill wrote sweet, rather unexceptional ‘inspirational’ romances, with one unique ingredient: all her stories feature pretty clothes, wanting to dress up in pretty clothes and clothes ...
09.07.2019 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
I gave you my heart (John and Mary pt II)
Oh honey, I know how it feels, Mary's sister Emma said. She had once caught her now ex-husband in bed with her best friend. Hurts like a knife to the heart. You have _no idea_, Mary wailed. She clutc...
03.11.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Two hearts are beating, together
Can't you two just get married? We'd pay for the wedding, their parents pleaded. But John and Mary shook their heads. It was impossible to express their deep commitment in a few ceremonial words. So t...
13.10.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Quarter-century after the Love-match Algorithm was perfected
When the initial infatuation had worn out, they found it hard to connect. His bubbly personality which had swept her off her feet now felt abrasive, and her tendency to withdraw from difficult situati...
04.05.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Saga (Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples)
They are on opposite sides of a war that has been going on for practically forever. He has horns and magic spells, she has wings and a quick temper. They fall in love, and what's refreshing and fun,...
15.04.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Abusive Millionaire Lover Trope
I've been wondering, since reading The Girl from Nowhere, what's with the abusive asshole millionaire trope in romance? You simply can't have a hero on the abusive asshole end of dominant personality ...
16.11.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Girl from Nowhere by Charlotte Lamb
Another rescued take-free Harlequin romance, no speculative elements, and if someone out there wonders what exactly am I getting out of these books, I'm wondering the same thing myself.The pair: Suki ...
14.11.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
J. Blicher-Clausen, Romance novelist for the Morbidly Sensitive
Practically no-one besides a few Danish literary academics have even heard of Jenny Blicher-Clausen, Danish author from the turn of the previous century. I only came across her work by accident. For s...
25.10.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Review for those who've already seen it
Take the photo book CCCP cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed about abandoned futuristic ex-soviet buildings, add mid-80's to early 90's computer case design, eerily decayed locations and vario...
15.10.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Emotional Labour and Romance Lit., continued
A box of free books, something I just can't walk past even in a hurry. I'd probably rummage through "take a book for free" box even if running away from a killer robot from future. So there was such a...
05.06.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Jacqueline Koyanagi: Ascension
Have read the first polyamorous SFR story, here is the report, might have some spoilers so watch out! Humans live on several planets and have space travel technology to transport themselves from one ...
10.04.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Speculating about polyamorous romance
The most common romance set-up is no doubt the love triangle, where happy end – or any sort of end – demands the hinge character to choose one and forsake the other. The emotional plot consists of fin...
28.03.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
AE Ash: Luminous
Not wantig to buy books with cover art depicting a headless man with such clearly defined abdominal muscles he looks like a skinned carcass limits my sf romance reading pool consiredably. But that poo...
22.03.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
Ethel M. Dell: the Lamp in the Desert
Today Ethel M. Dell is more or less forgotten, but she was an extremely popular author in the early 20th century, and her books allow a glimpse into thoughts and manners and society of England of a ce...
17.03.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
Auroora Lamminlaine
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