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Old 05-24-2010, 07:10 AM   #4949
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Originally Posted by Sparrow View Post
Florence and Ea for the Romance pointers.

I'm reading 'Silk' because I was curious to know what a 'normal' romantic novel is like - I wasn't expecting it to be great lit; any more than I'd expect a standard SF or crime novel to be great lit, so I'm not grumbling.
I did try to read 'Possession' once, but I hated it - Byatt is one author I just don't get.
Austen, Brontes, Hardy et al are fantastic - I like a lot of the classic Victorian romances (Margaret Oliphant is a personal fave ).
No-one is perfect I know Byatt is not to everybody's taste.

Good writing doesn't seem to be the reason why people read it (genre Romance). I tend to think of it as light entertainment, equivalent to TV. I actually started reading it because I'd gotten into reading slash fan-fiction (which is in itself a type of Romance).

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Originally Posted by DixieGal View Post
I'm reading "Black Silk" by Jan Gordon on the B&N app. It a freebie and I have just started it, but it seems to be about
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werecats, and hopefully some erotica. I'm getting lonely while recovering from surgery.
With that title, what else could it be
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