maddie 📚
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maddie 📚
@thenmaddieread.bsky.social
more swoon & less doom, babycakes (she/her)
librarian & bookseller in STL, MO; reviews mine 💕
“like a celebrity” - alicia thompson one time
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men just aren’t walking across foggy fields at dawn in long overcoats towards their loves anymore and i feel like we as a society would be much better if they were
a woman called the store specifically looking for me today to get historical romance recs and i’m already planning out for next year’s historical romance bookclub, so you cannot tell me this is a dead subgenre
February 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
listen, reading an old contemporary romance novel is all well and good until the hero starts undressing and he’s in bikini briefs and knee high black socks
January 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
every day i go to work and push one (1) person out of the snowbank in front of my office
January 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
ha ha ha crying at work over a man who sold all his rat catching tools to buy her a dress
January 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
anyways do y’all ever think about how joanna shupe has an anastasia retelling coming out next year and just PINE for it or is that just me
December 14, 2024 at 1:37 AM
reading all those single-word amanda quick titles to soothe what ails me
December 2, 2024 at 3:07 PM
have to get off the Internet bc the historical romance discourse is stressing me out
December 2, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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I don't want to cast doubt on the impeccable dependability of google AI, but I don't remember this particular plot twist in du Maurier's REBECCA
November 28, 2024 at 12:45 AM
men just aren’t walking across foggy fields at dawn in long overcoats towards their loves anymore and i feel like we as a society would be much better if they were
November 29, 2024 at 1:22 AM
might reread a tessa dare novel tonight just to Feel Something
November 23, 2024 at 12:06 AM
when it’s a marriage of convenience but he insists on sleeping in the same bed >>>>
November 16, 2024 at 4:58 AM