Recent reads & reading setup

Last edited 0 minutes ago. Content Warning: In this post I discuss romance novels. Nothing explicit is mentioned though, but be warned there might be links to external web pages that delve into such topics. Click responsibly. Some romanceFor the first time in my 37 years of life, I'm reading romance novels. Up until recently, my interaction with smut/erotica had been restricted to fanfics, in moments of despair (mostly TXF). Well... not on my teens—on my teens I was reading fanfic like I drank water, but they weren't all smut (tho lemon fics are what taught me Spanish, but let's not get into that just now). But yeah, in the past weeks I started picking up original fiction to read. I was facing a pretty long reading slump, had gone over all the fics that were available on AO3 for my rare pair (all 2 whole pages), and so... Off to the romance sub I went (thankfully, bc it did help me to understand acronyms and terms to sift through tags). I'll say, despite how popular the genre is, it…