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Sarah Rose
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Kansas mom and romance reader 💙💜🩷
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Currently reading:

📖 Kiss of the Basilisk 🐍
🎧 Love in Focus (ALC)
Screen shot from Goodreads Currently Reading page with covers for Kiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube and Love in Focus by Lyla Lee
May 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Hoping to finish up Unromance by Erin Connor today with my 👀
Started Sunrise on the Reaping last night with my👂
Kind of can’t stop sneaking away to read Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love.
Book cover for Unromance by Erin Connor. M/F couple sitting across from each other at a diner Book cover for Sunrise on the Reaping. Purple background with a gold U shape with a snake head on one side and a bird head on the other
April 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Midwest false spring calls for a Friday hookie day after!

#midwest #falsespring
M/F couple sitting on a patio outside on a sunny day, smiling over a couple of beers
February 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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That’s a wrap! Goodbye winter (hopeful). #SnowInLoveBingo with @firewhiskeyreader.bsky.social
#romancelandia
#SnowInLoveBingo board. Grey background with a red banner and darling winter-themed illustrations including a scarf-wearing raccoon, toadstool, fox, polar bear and opossum and a 3-piece snowman band. Illustrated by @sarelizabeth13. The board is complete with a book in each slot. Happy to share details if you want 😊
February 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Sexuality and tastes in romance books ever-expanding 🩷💙💜
#romancelandia
Image: Aidy Bryant with quote text: 40 is a big time in your life. I feel like a lot of people in their 40s are realizing that their whole life they’ve actually been bi. And maybe it’s less that you’re discovering bi-ness, and it’s more that you’ve realized you can kinda get horny from anything.
February 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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@firewhiskeyreader.bsky.social has a prompt in the winter challenge that is just “Glasses” and @kennedyryan.bsky.social delivers. #romancelandia
Image of book quote on pink background: “I think in the back of my mind, as soon as he said his boys weren’t home, I knew it would happen.” I pause to give my next statement the gravity it deserves. “He was wearing glasses when I got there.” They both gasp because we all know I have a spectacles kink. “And you immediately wondered,” Hendrix intones without a trace of humor, “How does one best sit on a man’s face when he’s wearing glasses?” “I did wonder that and not for the first time, yes.” I shrug helplessly. “They were black rimmed. I’m not made of stone.” Kennedy Ryan This Could Be Us
January 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Let’s go CHIEFS! ❤️💛❤️💛
January 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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First reads for 2025:
📖 Grand Theft N.Y.E. by Karina Jackson
🎧 With Love, from Cold World by Alicia Thompson
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January 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Oh my god. We are going to have such good luck this year! Anyone remember this guy from the bird a bunch of years ago! #goodluckpig #newyearspig #lemonpiglet
Pig with a lemon for a body, chocolate chips for eyes, toothpicks for legs, and a twisty tie for a tail
January 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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For the second-chance prompt, I did Snowed In delivery for Christmas by Jilli Waters, a short, sweet book about a mail carrier who gets assigned to her ex’s route right before Christmas, and Oh no! They get snowed in. Main characters in their 40s, KU, 64 pgs
Book cover for Snowed in Delivery for Christmas. Faceless cartoon people facing forward. She has on a hat and messenger bag to indicate she’s a mail carrier. He has cool guy spiky hair. A snowy scene with a cabin and pines behind them.
December 23, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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I used my Wild Card prompt as a bucket for all the seasonal books I read that didn’t fit neatly into anywhere else

❄️Snow-Kissed Proposals by Jenni Fletcher & Elizabeth Hobbes
🎄Merry Inkmas by Talia Hibbert
🛷The 3 Toy Runner novellas by Adrianna Herrera
🤶A Man for Mrs. Claus by Rebekah Weatherspoon
pdxrachreads.bsky.social pdxrachreads @pdxrachreads.bsky.social · Dec 19
Smutmas Day Seven
Prompt: Elf on the Shelf (sentient object) *for the StoryGraph challenge, this is my wildcard prompt

Sentient Claus by Holly Wilde
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Kindle unlimited, 82 pages

Frisky the Snowman by Lauren Biel
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
$0.99 on kobo, 37 pages

#romancelandia 🌶️📚
A green background with white speckles and an elf on the shelf in the foreground. It is extremely creepy. The cover to Frisky the Snowman is prominently displayed. Text reads, Smutmas day seven, elf on the shelf (sentient object), $0.99 on kobo, 37 pages. A green background with white speckles and an elf on the shelf in the foreground. It is extremely creepy. The cover to Sentient Claus is prominently displayed. Text reads, Smutmas day seven, elf on the shelf (sentient object), kindle unlimited, 82 pages.
December 20, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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This book stayed charming as hell throughout. The grumpy one makes a big point about how he never nicknames people when he slips and calls Baxter “B”, but then by halfway through he’s called him at least 5 little pet names. The smittenest kitten.
sarahroseknows19.bsky.social Sarah Rose @sarahroseknows19.bsky.social · Dec 19
I’m not even a quarter of the way into Let Your Hearts Be Light by Fae Quin, and I’m obsessed with these two. Baxter and Paxton’s respective teens have singed them ups to be Christmas buddies. Paxton is a grump who hates Baxter’s cheeriness, but quickly learns it’s a front and decides to help.
December 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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Big Nick Energy by Morgan Elizabeth asks, what if you meet a great younger guy, but it turns out that you’re just friends? *But then* you meet his dad…and immediately hate him for bringing up the fucking Elf to your kids. *But then again* he makes up for it by coming over every night to handle it.
Cartoon cover for Big Nick Energy, done in all red, green & white of a scene at a Christmas tree farm with a little red truck and a man carrying a whole tree on his shoulder.
December 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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I’m not even a quarter of the way into Let Your Hearts Be Light by Fae Quin, and I’m obsessed with these two. Baxter and Paxton’s respective teens have singed them ups to be Christmas buddies. Paxton is a grump who hates Baxter’s cheeriness, but quickly learns it’s a front and decides to help.
This cover! I’m not going to do it justice, but foreground is a salt & pepper beardy man dipping a blonde man whose cream sweater is riding up. They are both wrapped up in a string of Christmas lights. There are bees flitting around the title, Let Your Hearts be Light. In the snowy background, there is a gazebo with two teens sitting next to each other.
December 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · Dec 18
Snag A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS & my sexy holiday romance WRAPPED for 25% off! Sale ends Dec 26. payhip.com/b/qcCnS
HOLIDAY EBOOK SALE! 2 for 25% off
December 18, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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My Christmas Wedding pick is aptly titled The Wedding Night Before Christmas (or sometimes just The Wedding Night) by Kati Wilde. This is a marriage of convenience/revenge with a hot mechanic MMC and a high-powered, neurodivergent, real estate mogul FMC, and they just want to take care of each other
Book cover for Wedding Night Before Christmas. A contemporary blonde woman and dark-haired white man in and embrace with her leg up. White clothing on both. Title in red with Christmas holly.
December 18, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Like when my in-laws buy a DVD and my husband always steals the little digital code. But for books.
#romancelandia
December 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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For Just Like a Hallmark Movie, I went with The Mistletoe Bet by Maren Moore. She’s a Big City Girl who’s down on Christmas. He’s the hometown doctor ready to change her mind and win her heart in the process. Everything you could want from a Christmas tale, with some bonus after hours fun.
Book cover for The Mistletoe Bet by Maren Moore. Looks like a December calendar with various Christmas and winter items in the square of each date.
December 17, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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I loved Beastly and Bookish last year, so I went back to Winter Bliss for Holly’s Unjolly Christmas by Lark Green. Snowed in with the (extremely hot) demon who is dead set on making your stay as unpleasant as possible. 199 pages, on KU
pdxrachreads.bsky.social pdxrachreads @pdxrachreads.bsky.social · Dec 14
Smutmas Day 2

Prompt: Winter is a Beast (monster romance)

The Selkie Santa by Lilith Stone
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Kindle unlimited, 109 pages

Frosted: A Christmas Story by Teshelle Combs
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Free on Kobo, 37 pages

#romancelandia 🌶️📚
An image with a wintery forest background and silhouettes of a Krampus and a Yeti. There is a cover of the book Frosted: A Christmas Story by Teshelle Combs in the center of the image. Text on the page reads Smutmas Day Two, Winter is and Beast, Free on Kobo, Villain gets the girl, Jack Frost meets mermaid, 37 pages. An image with a wintery forest background and silhouettes of a Krampus and a Yeti. The cover to The Selkie Santa is the center of the image. text reads Smutmas Day Two, Winter is a Beast, kindle unlimited, Christmas show at the seniors home, selkie x half-elf, 109 pages
December 17, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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I’m currently reading Christmas with Kris Kringle by Kasha Thompson for this prompt. Black Love, on KU, 224 pages. Kris (real name) is taking a “micro-retirement” to play Santa at the mall where Belen is the events coordinator. Very fun so far!
pdxrachreads.bsky.social pdxrachreads @pdxrachreads.bsky.social · Dec 13
Smutmas Day 1

Prompt: Light the Lights (cover includes Christmas lights)

Merry in Spite by @irenebahrdauthor.bsky.social
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96p., mm, friends to lovers

Snowflakes and Sparks by Sophie-Leigh Robbins
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176 p., small town, second-chance

#romancelandia 🌶️📚
A shirtless man is covered in a strand of Christmas lights in a glowing red background for the cover of Merry in Spite An images displaying book stats for Merry in Spite. Text reads Author: Irene Bahrd, length: 96 pages, mm, friends to lovers, romcom, free with kindle unlimited The cover to snowflakes and sparks, a cartoon couple is hanging Christmas lights while looking at each other A page for book stats to snowflakes and sparks. It reads author: Sophie-Leigh Robbins, length: 176 pages, second-chance, small town, free on kobo
December 17, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Koalafied for Love is an objectively hilarious title.
thebookqueen.bsky.social Danielle (TBQ) @thebookqueen.bsky.social · Dec 13
Friday Romance Deals (12/13) are up, treat yourself to a romance as we head into the weekend!

And it’s Double Kindle Points

5 romances, all under $2 👀📚

Bookshop owner, astronaut, koala shifter & more! 📚
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#romancereader #romancenovels #bookdeals
This is the daily book deals graphic, with all 5 of today's covers
December 13, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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The most wonderful time of the year! (Reading holiday romances)

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December 13, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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A little girl was robbed at gunpoint for her backpack outside my kid’s school today, and I am so angy and horrified and heartbroken. www.kshb.com/news/crime/a...
Mother, community on edge after middle schooler robbed at gunpoint Monday in Overland Park
A gunman robbed a juvenile of her backpack Monday morning in Overland Park as she walked to school. The robbery happened moments after the suspect broke into a car less than a block away, police said.
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December 10, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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Post from @endcase.bsky.social of two large trim dogs in the snow wearing form fitting, full body sweaters and a smaller dog in the background. Reply from me that says “This is Todd and Margot from Christmas Vacation.”
December 8, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Sarah Rose
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Have you read our newsletter yet? Krista, co-founder of Corner of Press, shares 13 must-read black holiday romance books. Check out her list! www.givethemromance.com/p/13-must-re...

#romancelandia #blackbookshelf #blackbooksky #romancewriters
a woman is sitting on a pink couch with the words `` super swoon '' .
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December 3, 2024 at 10:07 PM