More conversations on what drives us batty about romance novels:
Sarah: I am in the middle of glomming all the Balogh and Putney backlist I can get from Booksfree.
Candy: Good luck with the glom. I personally can’t read too many Putneys in a row, though when spaced apart she’s usually quite reliably good. Her Fallen Angels series is especially entertaining, but when they stage group get-togethers in the later novels and you see the massive conglomeration of gorgeous, wonderful people who have found other gorgeous, wonderful people to spend forever with, it gets a bit much.
Uck, I totally agree. That’s one reason I tend to dislike the books at an end of a connected group by an author. Not only are the couples all nauseatingly in love, they also all LOVE everyone in their group. There’s never one wife who simply doesn’t get along with the wife of her husband’s old school chums. The firebrands who set the town on fire in their own books are universally loved when they show up in later novels. I’d love it if for once the heroine of a current novel would find at least one of previous heroines annoying. I’d even settle for heroines deciding they didn’t have much in common with each other and that they wouldn’t be bosom buddies.
That was one good thing about Marion Chesney’s regency romances. Her heroines were frequently imperfect, and even better, although they found the men right for them, they stayed imperfect in follow-up books and didn’t necessarily spread perfection in their wake. I was really sad when Marion Chesney stopped writing regencies, she was one of my absolute favorite authors when I was looking for something humorous and sparkling.
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I wonder if he has grandchildren now?
I expect so. He is 64, after all. He has an OBE after his name (a high honour, for those of you unfamiliar with such things - nowhere near a knighthood,…
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And hey, happy Independence Day to all you Americans.
As a San Franciscan I must admit that I only learned the west coast story and don’t give the east any cred! I’ll have to wiki some of the events/places she mentioned to get more details.
I’m coming late to this party on account of my intermittent net access over the last week, but I wanted to say that, based on the trailer and article, I’m a little nervous about the documentary. Hopeful, but nervous.
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