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Monday, April 07, 2014

Book Girls Don’t Cry… or Fall For All The Romance

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Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is co-hosted with the lovely Amy at Book Loving Mom.

Okay, so this is just starting to be far too much fun. I got together with Stella (It’s Too Late To Apologize) again recently and we decided to talk about romance in novels. No, not about the romance genre, but more so romance within books of multiple genres. We ended up rambling about NA (could the people in these books get any more dysfunctional?), Insta-Love and even went into some erotica talk. I hope you guys enjoy!

For those who don’t like to or can’t watch the video, here is a rundown of some of the points touched upon:

New Adult romances seem to be comprised of the most broken people you could ever fathom. It really seems like the authors just try to think of the most emotionally scarring scenarios they can and just throw them at multiple characters in the novel. What bothers me about this is how these people then start diving head first into these romances and end up being saved by it. I don’t think it’s realistic that a romance can save the characters presented in these novels.
Stella can’t stand it when the man in the romance is the rich professional who is perfect in every way and wants to shower her with her every want. How hard is it to love those guys? C’mon how hard is to fall for Tom Brady? And is that real life? Where is the struggle people?
Novels in the YA genre seem to be very romance heavy these days. Sometimes it even feels as though the romance is just thrown in there because it’s the formula and the author feels it should have one. Not all romance is necessary!
Insta-Love! Sometimes it can be forgivable if the characters still maintain who they are, but it drives us crazy when the characters lose who they are once they fall in love. So often the women in YA novels lose sight of their goals and what they want in their life once they find a man, it just becomes all about the man.
Stella wants to see more female dominants in erotica, she thinks 50 Shades of Grey seems to have started a trend that is keeping the women as submissives.

What are your thoughts about romance in novels?

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Book Girls Don’t Cry… Nor Accept Annoying Friend Requests!

Posted by Giselle on 03/13/2014 • 53 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is co-hosted with the lovely Amy at Book Loving Mom.

To Friend, or Not to Friend?

How do you decide if you approve or ignore (deny) friend requests on Goodreads – or other bookish sites? Do you automatically add everyone who requests, or are you meticulous with your friends list like I am?

Am I just picky and anal and, in turn, a bitch for not approving everyone? How about those who don’t even bother answering the friending question? That has to be my #1 pet peeve about Goodreads friending. I actually have a question set up just to easily identify those who are spamming friend requests to every single Goodreads user….

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Meet Our Book Boyfriends!

Posted by Giselle on 02/14/2014 • 38 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is co-hosted with the lovely Amy at Book Loving Mom. Sorry, They’re Ours!

Since today is valentine’s day, we decided to go a bit lovey dovey and tell the world who our book boyfriends were, just so, you know, no one else can have em. Muahaha. So we decided to limit ourselves to 5 each so this was HARD and we both have plenty of book boys who would have easily made this list!

Giselle

LEVI from Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell: Levi is the kind of person who is so just… alive! He likes to talk to people and he’s everyone’s friend with a smile…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: The Misunderstood 3-Star Rating

Posted by Giselle on 01/22/2014 • 70 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is co-hosted with the lovely Amy at Book Loving Mom.

3 Stars – Good or Bad?

What does a 3-star rating mean to you? When I rate a book 3-stars, I’ve noticed some people think I did not like it, while in reality I did like it, it was just missing some kind of element to make it “great”. At worst – low end of 3-star – it would mean I was a disappointed with it (mostly due to expectations), but I still don’t consider those bad books. I noticed this because almost every time I post a 3-star review, I get comments on it that go something like “I’m sorry you…

Book Girls Don’t Cry – Lending Books

Posted by on 01/13/2014 • 35 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is co-hosted with the lovely Amy at Book Loving Mom. This week on for BGDC I am talking about lending books. What my policies are when I do and my pet peeves about the habit. Since my New Year’s resolution was to get back into vlogging this year I have recorded a vlog for the topic. That being said, I realize that this post is going up on a Monday and that some readers will be at work and unable to watch the vlog so I will also be typing out a quick recap of the video at the bottom. This quick recap is also for the people who just don’t want to…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: My Holiday in Books

Posted by Giselle on 12/19/2013 • 23 Comments

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My Holiday in Books!

The holidays are here (holy crap, right?) – how do you usually spend yours? We have a huge family gathering on Christmas eve where we usually do fun gift exchange games and eat a lot chocolate and other junk food- catching up with family I don’t see often is the best, though. Then Christmas itself is bound to be a lot of fun with my 3 and a half year old in tow. He’s already super excited and this is the fist year that he sort of “gets” it before it’s here. Then it’s just a lot more food,…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Book Gifting is Good for You!

Posted by Giselle on 12/10/2013 • 32 Comments

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Books Are For Giving! (And reading – duh!)

Are you ever stumped as to what to give a certain person for Christmas? This week on Book Girls Don’t Cry we’re making a list of the books that we think would be prefect to give to basically everyone and anyone! Now I’m going to assume that the obvious ones were already read by all (Hunger Games, Harry Potter, etc) so for sake of originality I won’t put em in this list. If someone hasn’t read these yet – Shame on them!!

Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally: This is one of…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas Story!

Posted by Giselle on 12/05/2013 • 24 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is hosted by myself along with these pretty ladies:

Holiday-themed books: Yay or Nay?

Ever since the holiday season arrived (quite suddenly), I’m sure you’ve noticed those holiday-themed books going around, and I realized I have never read a holiday-themed book, ever! I don’t know exactly why, to be honest, but nothing has really attracted me to them. I figure because most of them are romance stories and that has never been my go-to genre. My go-to genres are darker reads so, yeah, not very Christmassy >.< Though I am curious about them. What’s your opinion on them? Do you love them? Dislike them? Do they really give out that warn, fuzzy, happy…