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About emmalita

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Lives in Austin, Texas. She/her. Reads lots of books to avoid talking to other people. Proud MONSTER to the world's best/weirdest dog.

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CBR15 Book Bingo Reading Challenge Begins

June 27, 2024 by emmalita

Welcome to the 2020 Book Bingo Reading Challenge, we are delighted to bring it back for a third year! Select five squares across, down, diagonally, or 5-up (four corners + center square), and get an entry into a drawing for some cool prizes. Complete the entire card – a blackout! – and get 15 entries into our drawing. Download your game card below, and post your reviews tagged with cbr12bingo for chances in our prize raffle. You can ask questions, ask for suggestions in the […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Feature, News from MsWas Tagged With: cbr12bingo, feature

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December 6, 2019 by emmalita 7 Comments

Lucy Parker’s London Celebrity series has been one of my favorite romance series of the past few years. In general, they have been loosely connected, with characters from previous books showing up in later books. However, until Headliners, they have been stand alone books. In order to understand an important division between the MCs in Headliners you will need to have read The Austen Playbook. I will do my best to avoid spoilers, but you can assume that Freddy and Griff have ended up happily together. Near the end […]

Filed Under: Feature, Romance Tagged With: Headliners, Lucy Parker

He might fear God, but he still loves boobs.

January 21, 2019 by emmalita 5 Comments

I follow a lot of authors on twitter. Every once in a while a bunch of writers will start talking about one book. A couple of months ago, that book was Jane Doe. Authors, all women but from several genres, were reveling in Jane’s darkness and her passion for revenge. Jane has diagnosed herself as a psychopath. She doesn’t feel emotions the way normal people feel them. It makes her good at business but bad at relationships, with one exception. Steven hurt the only person Jane […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: Jane Doe, twitter, Victoria Helen Stone

Buttermilk Onions Cheese Life Lessons

January 14, 2019 by emmalita 15 Comments

The lovely and amazing narfna was my CBR10 Book Exchange gifter last year. She shopped from my wish list and bought Salt Fat Acid Heat. I love cooking and cookbooks. I have worked as a chef professionally, but all my training has been at home and ad hoc in bakeries and small food shops. Samin Nosrat’s training has been in some of the best kitchens in the world. When I read how she got her job at Chez Panisse I was horribly jealous and thought, […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: faintingviolet, narfna, salt fat acid heat, Samin Nosrat, Wendy McNaughton

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