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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The Signed With Spice romance con in my hometown of Bangor this weekend was aces! I met a lot fo new-to-me authors and got to chat with some faves. #romancelandia #signedwithspice

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

For fuck's sake. This is our Dem savior? JFC.

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Rich Kimball @richkimball.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

On this week's Downtown, Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll, Jr. tell us about their book, GHOSTS OF SICILY, University of Maine professor @jessicatripler.bsky.social discusses BRIDGERTON & PHILOSOPHY, and we talk Boston sports with @chadfinn.bsky.social richkimbally.podbean.com

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Downtown with Rich Kimball | Rich Kimball

Conversations with friends old and new about entertainment, sports, and the state of the world.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

With the news that S5 will feature Francesca/Michaela, I'll note we have an essay on the question of queerbaiting in BRIDGERTON AND PHILOSOPHY, wrt Benedict in particular. #Bridgerton #romancelandia #booksky

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It was really a mistake for me to leave all the Oscar nominated international films to these last few days. They are not...a barrel of laughs. #academyawards #oscars

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I tried to listen to Star Shipped (via Spotify) but I couldn't vibe with the narrator, so I am reading it on Kindle this weekend instead! #romancelandia #starshipped

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Working on my PCA presentation today. So fun to be able to talk about books I enjoyed! This slide references two novels that explicitly address attitudes towards nonhuman animals. #romancelandia

Covers of Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall and of Chick Magnet by Emma Barry

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Shoot! The two authors I was most interested in meeting at this Maine romance book signing event have pulled out - Rachel Reid and CM Nacosta. #romancelandia

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Listening to Christina Applegate's memoir which is good. She gives names to her painful/uncooperative body parts (she has MS). Helps her cope. But she names her right leg "Meghan Markle." Every other part has a generic name not tied to a living person (AFAIK). Like, why?

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

In Elle magazine this week, Nicola Coughlan spoke about #Bridgerton and body shaming. We have a terrific essay in BRIDGERTON AND PHILOSOPHY, "Examining Assumptions About Love and Fatness" by Cheryl Frazier and Jeremy Fried that dives into this topic in the show and fandom. #romancelandia

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Because I also have high self-esteem in addition to low self-esteem." Lindy West, channeling my inner self in this NYT piece. (which happens to be about nonmonogamy)

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

So, Cat Sebastian recc'ed a sapphic romance, THE DUKE, by Anna Cowan and I'm like wait, I know that name, and then I realized her last book was in 2013 (the fab UNTAMED)! How exciting! Out 4/28. #romancelandia

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Thanks, Laura! In this piece, I discuss romance novels by Chloe Liese, Tia Williams, and Talia Hibbert. #romancelandia #romance #medhum

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you're enjoying #Bridgerton today, consider adding some philosophy!

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Really enjoyed Adriana Anders' Dom-Com. Fave part: when the MMC tries the old "I'm just not a relationship guy," the FMC, instead of slinking away, pretending not to care, shouts at him: "“Are you kidding me? You are being so unserious right now!"

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

BRIDGERTON AND PHILOSOPHY is out now! Available at all the usual retailers. 22 chapters connecting the show (and books) to philosophical concepts and problems. Loads of quotes and Easter eggs, a fun read (I promise)! #romancelandia #Bridgerton #Netflix #Booksky #Romancebooksky

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

You can read my essay, on Bridgerton and the Happily Ever After, from the forthcoming Bridgerton and Philosophy, online here: andphilosophy.com/2026/02/06/b...

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My gosh, what a lost book collection! 20k books! (and vinyl!). Glad everyone is ok.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Faculty romance book club still going strong! Last night's selection was The Most Wonderful Time by Jayne Allen. Two women at a crossroads in Chicago and Malibu swap houses for a week. Takes on some serious themes (racism, grief).

Image of book cover with two women and holiday decorations.

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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

#Romancelandia, can we keep this GFM going? Robin is out of hospital, but the medical expenses and bills due have not stopped. Please chip in what you can, and share regardless; every $5 adds up. (remember: tip GFM $0, they charge fees to recipients)

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I've read and enjoyed everything Ali Hazelwood has written, more or less, but I may have to DNF her latest, Deep End. I don't see how the MMC can redeem himself. #romancelandia #romancereaders

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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

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Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It’s my bookaversary! Happy three years to BLACK LOVE MATTERS, the book of my heart! I didn’t let the pandemic, cancer, or corralling 13 authors in ten states and two countries hold me down, and we got something magical in return! What are you reading this first day of Black History Month?

Photo of a light skinned Black woman wearing a shirt that says “Dope Black Writer” holding up a print copy of the book Black Love Matters

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It's been rough on campus. So many of my colleagues have had grant applications pulled, had to cancel fed funded funded conferences, and on and on. Just so scary and disheartening.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Agreed. All my subs are banning links to X and many are adding Meta links, too.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My one bit of hashtag-resist advice is to start a blog. I'm 100 percent serious. A blog, a newsletter, a tumblr - whatever. The blogging craze erupted largely in response to the Bush era & it's time for the people to reclaim their own platforms. Whatever you use social media for, put it on your blog

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Julie Ann Long's My Season of Scandal is absolutely fantastic. How is it possible this woman is not a NYT bestseller? She is one of the best in historical romance and has been for many years!

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social

A blue book cover with the title Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians printed in white with the word HARM repeated printed in black and red strike through

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Trying to create my bioethics syllabus, a course I haven't taught for years, and I am struggling mightily. I think I'll quit and read some more of My Season of Scandal by Julie Ann Long.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Please take care if you choose to read this. It is excellent. I feel sick.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Since GenAI in classes came up, here is a very interesting document on GenAI Refusal in Writing Studies: refusinggenai.wordpress.com

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Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies

Visit the post for more.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Yep, it's in-class written exams for me this spring (with appropriate accommodations for students who need them of course).

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Friends, look look look! I got to see this live and in person for the first time ever at MLA yesterday. A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US—now at the @sunypress.bsky.social booth (and on the website here of course: sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...)

2 big beautiful copies of A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE UNITED STATES: FRKM MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This showed up as a freebie with Amazon Prime, a "First Read", yay! II guess I get two free books a month? Is this new? Sonali Dev's There's Something About Mira. Coming out Feb 1.

Photo of book cover for There's Something About Mira by Sonali Dev

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

For my fellow oldsters and young Yacht Rock fans: listened to Michael McDonald's memoir, What a Fool Believes, driving down to NYC and back -- it was great!

Photo of book cover, What A Fool Believes by Michael McDonald

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Forgot to mention which book I picked up at The Ripped Bodice. Make A Scene by Mimi Grace, a fake relationship for a wedding date romance.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Finally made time to visit The Ripped Bodice on a Brooklyn visit!

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Just watched Conclave. I understand the praise for Fiennes but...this was not a good film and the ending made it a terrible film.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Been listening to last year's buzzy Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and BOY is this "sex scene" not written by a romance novelist: "She put her hand between his legs, wrapping her fingers around the cylindrical chamber of blood sponges that was his (and every) penis." #romancelandia

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Silo, I gave you a season plus. I'm sure the books by Hugh Howey are great but I'm so bored by this show.

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Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

what a wonderful writer, way ahead of her time in many ways #romancelandia

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