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Axios
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Five hot romance novel recs from a San Diego bookstore owner
The owner of Meet Cute Romance Bookshop, Becca Title, shared some new sweet and spicy book recs with Axios ahead of Valentine's Day. The big picture: San Diego's first and only romance bookstore helped the genre heat up as print sales have grown and more lusty literature shops pop up around the country. Meet Cute moved from North Park to a bigger space in La Mesa last year. Here's what Title says about the hottest romance novels right now: 🚲 " Shore Thing" by Joanna Lowell is about "finding yourself and your people in a world that wants you to be somebody else." It's full of queer joy, righteous anger, hope and Victorian bicyclists," Title said. 🎹 In " A Love Song for Ricki Wilde" by Tia Williams, "a free-spirited daughter of a powerful Atlanta family meets a musician with a secret in this dual timeline romance set between Harlem during its Renaissance and the modern day." 🩺 " A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke" by Adriana Herrera is a "richly researched, lush historical romance set in 1880's France in which a doctor running an underground women's clinic and a man who is, reluctantly, a duke, are forced to flee together to the French Riviera." 🌶️ " The Pairing" by Casey McQuiston is "sexy and indulgent, a hot read for a cold evening." It follows a pair of friends-to-lovers-to-exes-to-lovers on a European food and wine tour. 📺 " How to End a Love Story" by Yulin Kuang is an enemies-to-lovers romantic drama set in LA. Two people, whose lives were bound together by an accident, haven't seen each other for thirteen years until they both land jobs writing on the same TV show.
Axios
25-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Things to do in the Boston area this week: 2/24-3/2
Monday, 2/24 Bow Market hosts a crochet workshop for beginners in the market's suite, 7-9pm. Price: $50, includes yarn and crochet hooks. Tuesday, 2/25 The Boston Public Library's Special Collections in Copley Square will highlight items from revolutionary Black Artists, 2-4pm. Bestselling author Tia Williams discusses her modern fairytale "A Love Song for Ricki Wilde" with content creator Azanta at Lovestruck Books, 7-9pm. Price: $30, includes signed book. Wednesday, 2/26 The Fenway Community Center screens"Six Triple Eight," 6-8pm. Thursday, 2/27 Finnish folk metal bands Korpiklaani and Ensiferum stop at Brighton Music Hall as part of their "Folkfest of the North" tour. The tour features Taiwanese folk metal artist NiNi Music. The Liberty Hotel hosts Nigel Barker of "America's Next Top Model" for a night of fashion, cocktails and celebrity spottings, 7:30pm. Friday, 2/28 The Baltic Film Festival returns with films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 4:30pm. It runs until Sunday night. Price: $15 per film; $5 for Emerson students. The Alamo Drafthouse is showing our favorite ogre with layers like onions, "Shrek," 9:30pm. Saturday, 3/1 Try puppy yoga at Park-9 Dog Bar in Everett, 9:45am-12pm. Price: $56. Some of the proceeds go to Sweet Paws Rescue. Bring your own mat. Sunday, 3/2 Trident Booksellers & Cafe hosts an Oscars watch party in its upstairs cafe, 7pm. Night Shift Brewing in Everett hosts metal yoga. Price: $30, includes a beer or non-alcoholic drink. Bring your own mat.
