THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

            I write to find out what I’m thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.             ---Julia Alvarez We read to understand things as well.   Every month, The Latina Book Club will do a Books Roundup to highlight books by Latino Authors or books with Latino themes.   We will include as many books and genres as we can.   We invite all readers to check out the books listed below, and share them with other readers. This month, we recognize and congratulate Debut Authors Aida Salazar and Thelor Kay Mejia on their new releases.   We look forward to reading more from them. If we have missed books, we apologize.   We would be happy to expand the list; just send us your book release information.   Email us at latinabookclub@aol.com . Happy Reading!     And as always, #ReadLatinoLit ! FEBRUARY...

The Latina Book Club is celebrating Valentine’s and Galentine’s Days all week long. Each day we will feature a new Latina romance author for your reading pleasure. Enjoy and remember to Read Latino Lit and Read Romance. DID YOU KNOW?! 64% of R omance Readers read more than one romance a month.   MEET MIA SOSA A former D.C. First Ammendment and media lawyer, Mia traded in her suits for lounge wear (aka sweatpants!). She strives to write fun and flirty stories about imperfect characters finding their perfect match. Her Suits Undone series, which launched her romance writing career, were all about mixing business with pleasure. Oh la la!  Mia began reading romances in middle school. She remembers hiding them behind the covers of her Menudo magazines. Neither college nor law school deterred her from reading romances. In fact, for years, she thought the phrase “talk softly and carry a big stick” was dating advice.  LOL.  Today Mia is ...

      It’s Valentine’s Week and here at The Latina Book Club we believe in celebrating love and romance every day of the year with family, friends and lovers.   Our celebration can be as simple as hugging a niece and nephew to giving chocolate covered cherries to our favorite aunt to dinner for two in bed to reading a romance novel. And we love romance novels!  We’ve been reading them since high school and they continue to be our favorites because of the guaranteed happy ending.  And, it certainly helps that romances come in all categories -- suspense, paranormal, historical, science fiction, etc. – so the thrill is never gone. The Latina Book Club is happy to welcome award-winning romance writer Mia Sosa as our Valentine’s Day guest blogger , who shares with us her thoughts on romance and why February 14 is just another day in her house. And for your reading pleasure, we’d like to share some of the romances on our shelves by ...

   The Latina Book Club welcomes author Mia Sosa as our first guest blogger of the New Year. She gives us the scoop on her Valentine’s Day traditions and her new romance novel. Happy Reading! Romance shouldn’t start and end on February 14. – Mia Sosa Mia Sosa I’m a romance author, and today is Valentine’s Day, so on this day in particular the conditions are ripe for smoking-hot romance in my life, right? Wrong. I have a confession to make: Valentine’s Day is just another day in our household. Hopefully you’re not gasping in shock, because that would be, well, a bit dramatic. But if you’re surprised, stick with me and I’ll explain why my confession shouldn’t be all that surprising. My husband and I are college sweethearts. Which means we did what many people do when they’re young and in love (and nauseating). Even though we saw each other nearly every day, we sent each other several love letters each week—and because this was before the age...