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Ok, here is something different I found....
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So I was talking to a friend and of course romance books came up in the conversation and we got to talking about our youth and the books we read and why we started reading romance so that got me thinking.
What was the first Adult Romance book you read? Mine was Hawk of Venice by Sally Wentworth. My sister had been rushed to the ER which happened alot in those days and someone just left the book there in the waiting room so I read it. I still vividly remember that book even though I've read hundreds since. I believe I was 13 at the time. It wouldn't be till I was 19 that I would get my hands on more Adult Romance books this one was The Other Amanda by Lynn Leslie and The Wallflower by Jan Reed both Harlequin Super Romances and oh boy I think I blushed reading both the books all the way through! ![]() Last edited by Blossom; 02-18-2014 at 04:53 PM. |
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I really started with teen romance in the 80s and I read everything in my small town's library. The earliest adult romance I remember is Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss. I read lots of nurse romances as well.
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That was waayy too long ago. I'm pretty sure it was a Harlequin because my mom always had a stash of those hidden in the closet and i remember sneaking in and snatching one or two. She never read anything racy, so they couldn't have been very physical, but I remember blushing and being embarrassed: and then sneaking another one. LOL
I remember alternating between those and Trixie Belden books from my own shelf. (think Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys, same age bracket) |
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a dastardly French nobleman, an English Duke with a vaguely demonic nickname...
Come to think of it, about the same time as I read that, Victoria Holt's _Mask of the Enchantress_ had been published "condensed" in Good Housekeeping magazine (I just googled this--it was the Aug. 1980 issue), and I found my mother's copy (probably months/years after Aug. 1980) and gulped it down like an ice cold slurpee in July. I don't know whether I read that or the Heyer first, but I know the Heyer was the first romance I read as a separately bound book. Last edited by Joykins; 02-18-2014 at 11:47 PM. |
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the first romance novel i read was georgette heyer's frederica. i wouldn't have bought it on my own, as i was hugely into fantasy, but i was 16 and sick with the flu, and it was one of the books my dad brought home to keep me company. after frederica, i was hooked! these old shades, btw, one of my very favorites to this day.
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I don't remember my first. Maybe Johanna Lindsey. Could have been Laurie McBain or Kathleen Woodiwiss. Those are all among my firsts.
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