Home Again

[grav_ity]

I am home from Thunder Bay, and I don't have to do anything for the rest of the month.

Um, except write my book.

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I read ONE NIGHT FOR LOVE by Mary Balogh on the way home today. It's the story of Lily, who shows up again in the Survivors' Club books, and OH MY GOD, it was amazing. I want a hard cover of it, so that every time someone talks shit about romance novels, I can hit them over the head with it. It was so freaking good.

(Also, I totally over-identified with the heroine and CRIED MY EYES OUT in the airport lounge, and then read the last 100 pages or so on the plane grinning with absolute delight which I am sure confused my seat mate, but amused the hell out of the baby across the way from me, who according to his mother had just mastered waving and people, and was in a constant state of "HELLO!!!!" the whole time we were in the air.)

Comments

[rhienelleth.livejournal.com]

I absolutely detest the practice of discounting an entire genre as somehow lesser quality writing, simply because of the genre it is. Romance (and now erotica as well, I suppose) is probably the top genre this happens to, but SF/F have experienced their fair share of that crap as well. I stopped taking creative writing classes in college when I realized that none of the instructors would allow "genre fiction" in their fiction writing classes. I had no desire to write the Great American Novel, or Short Story as the case may be.

I have not actually read Mary Balogh, but your posts have made me add her to my "to be read" pile. I do love good historical romance. :)

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Well darn, I was going to get that book from my county library on your recommendation, but they don't have it! Any other from that author you can recommend?

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I have not actually read Mary Balogh, but your posts have made me add her to my "to be read" pile. I do love good historical romance. :)

I'm rolling around in a big lovely pile of Georgette Heyer right now :D

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

She's on my list! Particularly as Richard Armitage is rumoured to read many of them as audio books. :)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I would start with THE SURVIVORS' CLUB:
The Proposal
The Arrangement
The Escape
Only Enchanting
Only A Promise
(+2 to come)

Then read ONE NIGHT FOR LOVE before you read A SUMMER TO REMEMBER. :)