Tag: Romance books

News & Notes – 8/23/2025

News & Notes – 8/23/2025

In News & Notes this week: A drop in pleasure reading; book censorship news; Google’s AI Gemini Storybook app; Hugo Award winners (and announcer controversy), and a lot of interesting articles and opinion posts.

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Romance as a genre

Romance as a genre

I used to turn my nose up at romances on the theory — fueled by exposure to Harlequin and Silhouette series books when I worked in bookstores years ago — that they were formulaic, trite, and not very well written.  The fact that they then were commonly referred to as… Read more »

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