Like I said, Rogers would make me blush today, but Black Lace makes me laugh. In England I used to see men and women reading them on the trains. A big selection was always available at the papershop in the stations. Then again, I saw a rather older man at the local DMV reading a Harlequin “baby” book. Gotta love the reach a romance has these days

I think I read one Rogers, it was a book club offer and I bought it because I had to. Loosely translated the German title was “Kisses like Champagne”. If I remember correctly it was originally published in the 70s, and the heroine in this book was considered to be very modern because she slept around like crazy. The hero was an actor and the rest I repressed, I think. Back when I read this book I just discovered erotic romance and suffered through a number off horribly translated Black Lace titles, and some equally silly plotted originals *shudder*. To my everlasting gratitude I soon afterwards discovered Emma Holly, oh JOY!!!

My mom never read romances, I found them all on my own . The first one was read by a friend at the back of the school bus and I’d blush if I picked it up today! What was it called, I usually remember it, that’s it…Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers. Phrew, now that book has the one thing I don’t like…an uncaring hero…this guy was so alpha he close to being a neanderthal! That’s be one of my buttons! Alphas are fabulous, but not when they are oding on testosterone.

You know what Devon, I’m one of those people who watches a movie, reads a book, sees a painting, loves it! and I mean loves it, and within the week I’ve forgotten the details. It’s a curse but then again it makes rereading easy With Lindsey I do remember many of the general plots but not the details. She has a family, I think it’s Malory, that offered many a good story. While I still buy her latest offering, they will often linger in the TBR pile for some time before I pick them up.

I love The Good, The Bad and the Unread!

I used to devour my mother’s Johanna Lindseys. I lurved them. But you know, today I can’t remember a single one in detail. I remember so much about some of Mom’s old Harlequins, but the Lindseys, no.

But it must still sell, because there are more (for me) hot button books out there than ever LOL.

Ahhh Johanna Lindsey. I really outgrew here, but I still have one of her books on my guilty pleasure list. Now Woodiwiss, however, was never my case. I still remember this book, was it something with Dove? where I wondered if the hero was a brother of the Marquis de Sade LOL.

Bev – no kids or pets, but I can assure you, unless the cutie could talk some sense in to me, I’m sure they’d be utter nonsense and leave them ripe for ridicule!

Katie – sorry about pushing all your “bad buttons”…maybe another time. When I’m in the mood to read a romance, I usually head back and reread my old favorites like Johanna Lindsey and Kathleen Woodiwiss.

Again, thank you for the smile!

Tilly

Devon, you may have to go on a blurb-free diet… STAT! Evidently, the slimy by-products are building up and interfering with normal brain function.

Off to edit some more.

Can’t help myself, I always associate tender romance with Harlequin Romance which I only know by name. I have read my share of “closed door” books, however, some are done very well, with others I want to shout at the author and ask her why she “forgot” the BEST part, especially when she was very talented at creating an erotic atmosphere and tension.

But sometimes, the blurb just calls to you.

Speaking of which, my reworking of “Danny Boy” continues…

Oh QB Bev, the blurbs, the blurbs are calling…
From Phaze to Blaze,
And even some Desires,

The blurbs are here,
And though it may be sucky,
Somehow it calls to me,
And I must go and buy.

I have nothing against kink in a book, I have come upon a number of BDSM stories which I highly enjoyed. But in general, BDSM or not, what absolutely repulses me is indiscriminate sex where the hero and heroine jump and flit around, a blow job here, a little swinging there, a sex club (which of course is very different and classy *yawn*) and because it is so en vogue,to a double penetration ménage to top it off.

Sometimes there are PG 13 rated novels which convey more eroticism to me than any X rated story will ever be able to. I recently finished Joanna Bourne’s first release, The Spymaster’s Woman, and even though the love scenes couldn’t be titled “detailed or daring”, I was highly impressed by the author’s talent to write such beautifully erotic scenes.

[Sing to the tune of Danny Boy]

Katie–I think you are correct in assuming you wouldn’t like this book. The sex party thing squicks me out a bit, and its use as a device in erotic romance always starts me a-wondering about the neighbors. Is everybody getting kinky behind closed doors?

For what it is (Elora’s Cave novella) Ride ‘Em was quite good.

I would have had the same reaction to her name, but then again, my DH has a niece named Sunshine, my DD went to school with Gentle Summer Love (not joking- that is her name and she has a sister with an equally absurd name), I have a grandniece named Autumn Raine and another one that was originally going to be named Wynter Storme. So Sunflower Forever Free? I probably would have wondered if Tilly Greene has kids and what she named them.