02-21-2013, 05:39 PM | #61 |
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02-21-2013, 06:02 PM | #62 |
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I go in spurts. My last romance spurt before I got my kindle, I had about 12 books come in at once, all with bodice ripper covers. I am sure it was my imaginaton, but the librarian (I live in a snall village, and there are only 2) always glances at the books. I saw (and this is where I am imagining it) a look of distaste. I would never read a bodice ripper on the train - the guys are all in suits reading their WSJ. I am a professional as well, but no longer feel I have to wear a suit for work. But I would die if someone I knew saw me reading such a book. That is why electronic readers have taken off amoung women!
My husband says I am "dumbing myself down." I don't think that is a nice thing to say, because obviously I am not dumb, and I sure don't watch "Gold Rush." But he reads nonfiction, so he is immune. I don't have any friends who read romances, but I read enough political commentary to carry on a conversation with my "better read" friends and my inlaws. Given that I read several books a week (because some books are so good I read them in a single sitting. No Easy Day and Hopeless are the most recent - one an autobiography and the other a romance), anyone who turns their nose up at my reading list, can kiss my . . . . Sorry, but even my family used to complain. I worked the late shift at a factory one summer, and used to buy a book on the way home every night. They were the suppermarket romances, which you can finish in a couple hours (189 pages). Between right before bed, breaks and lunch the next day, I would finish it. I felt kind of bad at the amount of money I was spending (about $1.50, which I believe was the minimum wage, which is what I was making), but I needed something to keep me going. It is not illegal, or bad for me, or keeping me from doing something I shouldn't (I wouldn't be doing it anyway!) Once baseball season starts, reading will take a back seat (I knit during Cubs games) until the Cubs are out of it - I think that was around May 1 last year, which is one of the earlist I remember. |
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02-21-2013, 06:08 PM | #64 |
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This year they very likely will stay in the wild card hunt till the Fourth of July, maybe even the All-Star break. Epstein *is* a certified genius, after all.
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02-21-2013, 06:28 PM | #66 | |
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On the other hand, I've got him hooked on the In Death books <evil grin>. When he's done with those, I'm going to start him on Nora Roberts' romatic suspence books (he did like Remember When, which is a combination of contemporary romatic suspense and the In Deaths), like Blue Smoke, or maybe Northern Lights. NL is my gateway drug for men, since it is written from a male point of view. |
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02-21-2013, 06:32 PM | #67 |
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People say: You are what you eat. Or, you are like those you are with.
I think same goes for reading. You are what you read. Or at least some part of you is. I think I would have really tough time talking about books with a person who reads exclusively romance novels. If that makes me a book snob so be it. Maybe we would connect on some other level but there is too much of a different sensibility between me and a person in example to relate on book reading one. That being said, I read philosophy and fantasy. Let the judging begin |
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Katie Macalister's in 2003 Sherrilyn Kenyon's in 2003 Christine Feehan's in 1999 And the original Twilight Vampires started in 1993: Maggie Shayne's Wings in the Night Series I recommend them all. I am beyond being teased for my Vamps, Dragons, Starships or Wizards |
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Sherrilyn Kenyon is 2002 Maggie Shayne rocks! Let's not forget Linda Lael Miller's in 93. I think that was my first vampire book. Last edited by Blossom; 02-21-2013 at 07:06 PM. |
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1) the Pern series: Dragons eat people not be friends with them. (Kind of like what others were saying about vamps) 2) Stasheff's Wizard series: How is an explorer suddenly a wizard? Magic?? Please, that is against God. 3) Tanya Huff's Quarters Series: LBGT issues I picked the examples I had to fight over since I was still in school for the first 2. Last edited by auntykatkat; 02-21-2013 at 07:18 PM. |
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I AM a book snob. Take those vamps, romances and zombies and...
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