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Burning Beantown – A (Demi) Catalogue Raisonné

Posted on May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 by caitreynolds

Escape back to old Boston with a fabulous fiction/non-fiction pairing! #amreading

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These Women Should Scare (and Thrill) You…

Posted on March 12, 2018March 6, 2018 by caitreynolds

What better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than to share women authors who scare the shit out of me? Okay, so sometimes, it’s not straight-up terror that they inspire. Sometimes, it’s just heart-pounding action, relentless pacing, and the unraveling of a mystery so intense that I have to stay up all night reading until…

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Obsessed with the Catalogue Raisonné

Posted on October 23, 2017October 23, 2017 by caitreynolds

What on earth is a catalogue raisonné you ask? (And very reasonably so.) A catalogue raisonné is a systematic, annotated catalog. Put another way, it’s a critical bibliography. Or, put most simply, it’s my guide to little reading projects on a topic.  Want to know about Victorian Murder? South American exploration? Ancient Greece? So do I….

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Mansplaining the Romance Genre

Posted on September 28, 2017September 28, 2017 by caitreynolds

Full disclosure: after I post this blog, I’m probably going to go day drink and listen to Aretha’s “Respect” on repeat. Mansplaining romance and erotica has a way of doing that to me. Yesterday, Robert Gottlieb wrote a round-up of romance novels in the New York Times Book Review.  Frankly, it’s more like he herds…

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The 327th Re-Reading of “Make Way for Lucia”

Posted on August 21, 2017August 20, 2017 by caitreynolds

I have long wanted to write about one of my greatest literary influences. Figuring out just how to do it, however, has been tricky. I wanted to introduce everyone to E.F. Benson’s “Lucia” series, but then, part of me worried that 1920’s-1930’s English county life satire might not be everyone’s cup of tea. I might…

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The Shelf of Fiction I Would Save in a Fire

Posted on July 17, 2017July 19, 2017 by caitreynolds

I am a horrible person. At least when it comes to fiction. I judge mercilessly. I fling aside into the DNF pile with wild abandon. I curl my lip at typos and sneer at poor word-smithing. I flip the bird (and sometimes the book) at puerile plotting. However, over the course of my life, I…

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If You Write Fiction, Read Non-Fiction

Posted on July 10, 2017July 9, 2017 by caitreynolds

I am insatiably curious. This has led to a slight issue (some might say addiction) with buying books. Non-fiction books. For an author, my actual collection of fiction is quite small. That’s probably because I’m such a picky bitch about the caliber of storytelling and writing I will read. But, non-fiction? OMG, it’s a real…

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Why I Canceled Kindle Unlimited

Posted on June 19, 2017 by caitreynolds

It’s the start of a new blog – sort of. File it under “The Sort of Thing That Only Happens to Cait.” It began with going to my blog and seeing that all my images had disappeared…and ended up learning more about Bollywood porn spammers than I ever wanted to. Long story short (because I’d…

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