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By: Liberty Hollendonner

Liberty Hollendonner — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:35:53 +0000

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By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:38:50 +0000

@ Sandy — THANK YOU!!!!! I can now check out Abebooks or someplace like that to see if I can find another copy. It was my Mom’s and it’s disappeared over the years. If I can find 2, I’ll give her one of them to make up for the missing one.

I agree with you that historical romance is better than it used to be. I just wish the authors would pay more attention to some historical accuracy. There are times when the modern dialogue is very jarring (back in the olden days, they weren’t afraid of the word “sex” for “male” or “female.” Why are we supposedly “enlightened” types afraid of it?????). Or when a writer has no clue about British titles. With the Internet, there is no excuse not to do your homework. For example, I love Lisa Kleypas’ “Lady Sophia’s Lover,” but she’s the daughter of a Viscount and would be a mere “Miss.’

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:55:07 +0000

does anyone remember Laurie Mc Bain? She was one of the first for me!

By: Sandy C.

Sandy C. — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:37:21 +0000

@Julie, the book about Adam and his secretary is called “A Very Special Favor” by Kristin James (aka Candace Camp, her real name), and it was published in 1986. This book is a DIK for me; I’ve read it so much the binding is starting to fall apart! Yes, I’m a sucker for Cinderella stories. I agree that the books about the other two brothers weren’t as compelling.

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My first romance was a Harlequin Presents titled “Wild Melody” By Sara Craven, published in 1978. I was hooked on Presents from then on, and even now they’re still a guilty pleasure. I just reread “Wild Melody” a couple of weeks ago, and some of the dialog was pretty funny! Tame by today’s standards, of course, but still entertaining.

I can’t remember my first historical romance. I did read a couple of them back in the late 70s or early 80s, but they usually consisted of a hot and heavy relationship between the hero and heroine in the first few pages, and then 200 pages of separation (sometimes with entire oceans between them!), followed by 20 pages of angst and resolution once they saw each other again. Historical romances have improved a LOT in the past twenty years!

By: Abi

Abi — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:41:10 +0000

Christina: I totally agree about the Anne of Green Gables books. Over the years I have reread Anne of the Island and Anne’s House of Dreams countless times.

Rilla of Ingleside!!!!!!!

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:41:10 +0000

Would you all think I was nuts if I told you my first was the Anne of Green Gables books?I know they don’t start out as anything like a romance, but as they go on the relationship between Anne and Gilbert completely sucked me in to this romance idea!When she thinks he’s dying, and he thinks she’s going to marry someone else… *sigh*My 12 year old heart turned over and was suddenly intrigued by the boy-girl relationships in other books!

I totally agree about the Anne of Green Gables books. Over the years I have reread Anne of the Island and Anne's House of Dreams countless times. As a kid I was always looking for books with a romantic element. Other favorites were the Sue Barton nurse books that shows her developing relationship with the man she marries along with her nursing career. And Janet Lambert with the Parrish and Jordan books. Great romance as the kids get older. I also liked historical fiction, and if I could find a romance in it all the better. As for getting into the romance genre as we know it today it started for me with Marion Chesney who led me into traditional regencies. Then I found Woodiwiss and read Deveraux's Knight in Shining Armor. After that I devoured tons of historical romances.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:41:13 +0000

I’d been reading Austen (first was P&P, favorite is Persuasion), the Brontes (first and favorite is JE), Heyer (first and still favorite was Talisman Ring) and Anya Seton (first was Katherine, favorite is Green Darkness) since I was around 10. I’d read my mother’s Woodiwiss books when I was in my teens, but they never “hooked” me. What finally got me interested in the more “mass market” type of romances was a Harlequin book from the 1990s (when I was in my 30s) whose name I now cannot remember. It was the story of a shy secretary in Raleigh Durham who has been in love with her boss (named Adam) for years. It’s her 30th birthday and he hears her crying in her office so he takes her out to dinner. She accidentally tells him that she’s still a virgin and he offers to “help her out.” Yes, it sounds ridiculous, but it’s a very sweet story. Adam’s brothers have books too, but they didn’t make much of an impression on me. I didn’t read much in the way of romance after that, but then Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series got me hooked for good. Now I will buy pretty much anything by Quinn, Lisa Kleypas, Loretta Chase, Gaelyn Foley, Laura Lee Guhrke, Rachel Gibson, Robin Carr or Carly Phillips.