Wouldn't you know it: After stating that I was mostly staying away from reading challenges in 2014, I then spent most of January doing a reading challenge. A chance comment of mine during a conversation prompted my friend Sig to hold me to something I said in a reading report post several months before, about doing some research into gay romances with a view to finding some good ones. I'd read a few since then, but had not been too impressed. Sig happens to love this genre and considers herself an expert on the subject. In the second week of January she handed me a Kindle loaded with a bunch of gay romances in various subgenres, including some of her favourites with various other stories thrown in for variety. She challenged (or rather ordered) me to read at least 10 of them, preferably at least one erotica story and one BDSM subgenre story. By the way, I should say that by good ones I meant romances that have the qualities I like in a good straight romance: an interes...
Bookish expressions of a Bibliophile living in Reykjavík