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Category Archives: romance novels
To Love and To Cherish, Patricia Gaffney
Liz at Something More mentioned that she was planning to read Patricia Gaffney’s Wyckerley trilogy and post about it; I’d only read the middle book, To Have and to Hold, so I decided it would be fun to join in, … Continue reading
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Roundup of Recent Guest Posts
More book-preview posts. I’ve been introduced to a lot of new authors this way! Angel With A Bullet by M.C. Grant. A lighthearted noir mystery. Yes, I meant to use both adjectives! Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan. A Young Adult … Continue reading
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Rand Morgan – Hot Pirate
I bet you thought I was done with talking about The Windflower by Laura London. But how could I be done when I have not yet talked about Rand Morgan, Pirate Extraordinaire? I loved the sheer over-the-top pirateness of Rand’s … Continue reading
The Gorgeousness of Cat (in The Windflower)
I recently wrote about classic romance novel The Windflower by Laura London for Heroes & Heartbreakers. In that post, I didn’t have a chance to talk about one of the most notable secondary characters, Cat, whose surname we eventually learn … Continue reading
Sime-Gen and Slashiness
My previous post on House of Zeor (1974) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg is about Sime-Gen and Romance Novels. If you will recall, in my last post I noted that though the author of House of Zeor explicitly excluded sexuality from the … Continue reading
Sime-Gen and Romance Novels
A shorthand description of the Sime-Gen series is “Science Fictional Vampires,” but the stories are far from being that simple. The Simes, human mutants with tentacles housed in their arms, can only live through drawing life force from the Gens, … Continue reading
“True Love,” Wisława Szymborska
True Love True love. Is it normal, is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own? Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly … Continue reading
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Betty Neels’ Books Rock – Guest Post by Magdalen Braden
Please welcome my guest, Magdalen Braden of Promantica! A while back, I posted some thoughts on romance author Betty Neels. Strangely, that post keeps getting hits…more than I would expect. Alas, though I think her work is a fascinating part of … Continue reading
On Getting Away with Cliché
After a small hiatus from the genre, I started reading romance novels again in December, and I have some new thoughts. The reason for my burnout: the constraints of the genre had palled. Instead of soothing through familiarity, they scraped … Continue reading
McDaniel Conference Linkage
I wasn’t able to attend the McDaniel Conference on Popular Romance, but here are some reports on the proceedings. Amy Burge reports on Reflections on (Re)Reading Romance: A ‘Hands-On’ Harlequin Workshop at the recent conference held at McDaniel College. Not … Continue reading