This weeks haul was seven books. Believe it or not, my favorite was a period romance (I can hear you groaning.) called Seduced. (You're groaning again.)
Before you throw up your hands and abandon me completely, let me say that this was an appealing story not just because it was well-told, but because it didn't include all that crap about feelings. You know, if you read these books with any regularity, that they are ridiculously formulaic and usually contain innumerable asides about the characters' changing feelings and emotions and the inner-battles they fight to "keep from risking their hearts." blah blah blah. This one doesn't have any of that. It does have an amazingly contrived last-minute snatch from the jaws of death, but even that overblown melodrama doesn't take away from a very good romance novel.
It'll never be a classic, but it was well-worth the paper it's printed on, and that is high praise in the trash-novel genre.
3 comments:
Groooooooooooooooooan.
Not abondoning you, however. Too interesting.
If you're ever in Kingston, New York, try the Bohemian Book Bin. They're an interesting used book store all around, but what particularly entices me is that they generally have a bunch of books up front that they sell for $5 a bag. All sorts of stuff: new, old, hardcover, paperback, nonfiction, novels, bios, political raving, history, science, crackpotitude, and even historical romances. I've gotten to be a pretty good packer of books into bags.
They're moving to a new store about a mile away and last week they had a we-don't-want-to-schlep-more-than-we-have-to sale: buy a bag of books for $5 and get 2 bags of books free.
Maybe I can get them to move into my basement. It would help with my book-storage problem.
This is why I go to the library. Books are too easy an addiction.
thanks once again for the book blogging inspiration.
Do you live in a large enough community that there might be a used bookstore that does trades? Romance books are one of the most commonly traded used book, and lots of cities do have used bookstores that will exchange a pile of books you bring in for a pile you wish to take out.
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