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From my Goodreads' Challenge page . The last five books I've read, to date, 16 Mar 2015. I powered through a three-book erotic romance series last Saturday. It was the Cityscape series by Jessica Hawkins , which I found by Googling for edgy romance novels (don't ask). But, boy when you ask for edgy, they give you edgy. So I chose this series which seemed the right kind of edgy for me at the time (true love via an extramarital affair; not really an unfamiliar theme in more serious literature). I liked the series. Sure, there was a lot of back-and-forth from the female lead; an alpha male who is perfect, as they usually are; and loads of sex which was hot but, if translated to reality, would be exhausting. Nevertheless, I got sucked up by it. (NOTE: One does not power through three books in less than 18 hours if you're not sucked up by them.) I'd like to point out, though, that I feel these covers are a bit misleading. I mean, you'd think that this was B...

What happens when a geek gets his heart broken? I guess that depends on who the geek is and what geekery he claims. When it's Carljoe Javier , however, he writes a book. And uses a title that will make every Trekkie snap his head up and pay attention-- The Kobayashi Maru of Love . A little disclaimer--Carljoe was a classmate in one grad course. We sat through a class on Shakespeare's Tragedies where, to this day, I still sit in awe of a test that required me to name the play from which obscure Shakespearean lines were taken. And man, as one who loves Shakespeare, read all but 1 of his plays, and taught several of them for several years, I tell ya, they were OBSCURE. Incidentally, Tarie , energetic Asian YA and children's lit blogger, was also our classmate there. But I digress. So far, I have revealed that I am a Star Trek geek and a Shakespeare geek. Who says the two can't go hand in hand? Anybody who's seen Wrath of Khan will know that. So, it stands to r...