Talk Sweetly To Me In which I read a historical romance novella by Courtney Milan. Rose Sweetly is a math genius shopkeeper's daughter obsessed with astronomy. She's shy and prefers her obscurity. Stephen Shaughnessy is an infamous advice columnist and scandalous rake. He's funny, handsome, flirtatious, and her neighbor. He's also taken an interest in her work. And her. I adore Rose, our unabashed nerd working as a computer in the Hidden Figures sense of the word. https://crewmansixrants.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/talk-sweetly-to-me/