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Interesting tidbit from her New York Times obit: Read more

Henry named dropped Happy Rockefeller in at least one episode of Mad Men (alas, I don’t remember which one). He was involved in NY politics, so it made sense he would know her.
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The more I read about her, the more I realize how many connections there are between her and Betty Draper Francis. Read more

As a chemist, let me tell you that arsenic is super easy to detect, and it takes a crapton of it to kill someone. There are far more effective poisons that damn near no one knows how to detect. Never piss off a chemist. Read more

Just to be safe, I’m only gonna consume things that are clearly marked “not poison.”

Ricin or GTFO

Poisoning my husband is not at all like a bar made of reclaimed wood. Only one of these remotely interests me. Read more

Fuck arsenic. Let’s bring back opium dens and over the counter dexedrine. Read more

The BDSM romance subgenre actually does lead heavily toward wrapping itself in so many props, costumes, rituals, honorifics, fantasy clubs, etc that it might as well be a Regency. Just replace Almack’s with The Whipping Post, or whatever the club is called. Read more

Excuse you, this is actually real. My cousin’s friend’s sister did the game of 72 after tripping on bath salts at a rainbow party following a round of the knockout game. Read more

Kelly, there are so many people commenting in these threads about wanting to get into romance and wondering where to start...might you consider a series of “So You Want To Start Reading Romance” articles that include classics in various subgenres that modern readers will love like say Lord of Scoundrels and Bet Me,… Read more

If you’re looking for diversity in romance, it’s definitely there. I second the Courntey Milan recommendation. Beverly Jenkins is another one who writes historicals with diverse main characters (although I can’t stand her writing. Other people love her). Jeannie Lin writes historicals and steampunk set in China. Read more

Regarding the whole hapless hero thing—this is why, now and forever, Georgette Heyer’s ‘Cotillion’ is one of my favorite romance novels. The male protagonist of that story is inarticulate, a little goofy, obsessed with his clothing... but he’s actually totally competent at Life, although in a very different way from… Read more

Fangirlin’! Read more

If you’re sincere about understanding the romance genre, you should try embracing these tropes. Read more

Thank you for such a great interview with Lisa Kleypas, who inspires the inner fangirl of other romance authors on a daily basis. I love her work. Read more

This makes sense, because many of the animals that these mummies represented were sacred to most Egyptians and represented their gods. If you went out and killed a cat to sacrifice as a mummy, you’d piss off Bastet... like, Sekhmet levels of pissed off. She’d either send lions to kill you in your living life or show… Read more

the bigger scandal here is the Middle Kingdom puppy mill: Read more

Amusing story from the museum world: a curator I knew kept an Egyptian mummy’s head in a box in his office. He got it after refurbishing the museum’s Egypt exhibit, where it had been displayed on its own. He said that it was obviously some sort of plundered relic that someone had dedicated to the museum long ago,… Read more