You did it! We figured this one out! It is a truth universally acknowledged (by me for certain) that the Bitchery pretty much knows everything, and really, it's true. Scroll down to see the solution for this HaBO - and many thanks!
Bitchery reader Kaitlin writes:
I’m another one of the bitches looking for a book. I honestly can’t remember a lot about it, but I’ll do my best.
I was 10 and my aunt got me a huge box full of the old Candlelight Ecstasy imprints. This would’ve been in 1986. I’m looking for a specific book from that imprint. The biggest thing I can remember is the cover. The heroine is wearing a green blouse that’s partially unbuttoned and he’s standing behind her with his arm around her waist….and I think she had red hair.
I think the hero was a writer (or something along those lines). I can’t remember if there is a lighthouse or something connected to the story, but it’s been a LONG time since I read it. I’ve read so many books in the meantime I could be putting things together that have nothing to do with this book at all! I hate it when that happens.
This one was definitely one of the hotter ones. The sex & the chemistry between the two was hawt. I know I’m not able to tell you much, but I hope someone can dig thru & figure it out. Thanks so much for the help!
Anyone remember a hawt Candlelight with a green blouse that’s partially unbuttoned? I wonder if it’s unbuttoned but still tucked into a belt. Because that’s extra double cheese hot. I mean, hawt.
http://www.romancewiki.com/Candlelight_Ecstasy_Supreme_101_-_188
Click on the title. It takes you to a page with a link to Amazon and SOMETIMES there is a cover to see!
Just cross off the covers that don’t match, then try a search of titles that had no cover. Somewhere on the net someone will have it up. Those old titles are now considered to be collectibles!
If the aunt’s box of books was given in 1986, the titles are likely to be older.
I just googled “Candlelight Ecstacy” and got the Wiki link that got things rolling!
Cheers—JaneyD
I so wish I had a cool aunt who gave me boxes of trashy books to read when I was 10!
Speaking of being 10…wow, I think I read my first “adult” romance novel around 12 or so. Until then it was the “Sunfire” YA series that all had titles that were just the first name of the heroine. It will be interesting to see what happens when you find this book – and if what you remember as being “hawt” then stokes the fires now.
I had some favorite series authors in high school & college. Hesitate to re-read, would probably seem really dippy now!
10!?!?
I didn’t discover romance novels until the age of 19. Very strict religious upbringing, etc.
Anyway, wish I could help with this one, but can’t. Sorry.
OMG! My word is free89! That is the year I discovered romance novels and it did free me! Wow! How weird is that?
Yes, 10. What can I say, I was advanced. LOL! 🙂
Thanks for the link. I’ll have to go look it up & see what I can find. I have another book I’m looking for, but I’ll save that one for a later date. 🙂 Thanks, ladies! 😀
I don’t know the answer, but found this link about a woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23595533/
OMG
Mari, I clicked on the toilet story link. That is just way too weird!
My first experience of Romance novels was with Jilly Cooper’s set of name-titled romances – Prudence and Imogen are still favourites. I think I was 7, but there’s little to no sex in them (hmmm, maybe that negates their genre standing? I don’t know, but they were marketed as romances, separate from her other books), so I didn’t die of the shock.
both73 – actually, I read them both in ‘77. 🙂
Holy cow! 10? I read my first romance when I was 22? (Which may or may not have been just 2 years ago.) Apparently my upbringing was even more strictly religious than Donna’s! (As if there was ever a doubt in my mind…)
Isn’t it a funny coincidence that the sheriff’s name is Whipple? Was this punishment for squeezing the charmin??
I abruptly switched from re-reading Judy Blume books in 7th grade to reading historical romances. This was the mid-‘70s, so these were true bodice rippers. I’m not sure which book I re-read more: Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret, or Love’s Tender Fury. A year or so after I was deep into romances, I couldn’t understand why everyone was so up in arms about the sex in Blume’s newly-published book, Forever.
So I think I started on Romances at about 10, but I first tried to read Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews. Not too much hawt sexxing, but there was incest and lots of it. (I say tried because I started it about 5 times and each time my mom took it away and told me I shouldn’t be reading it.) And all that without the strict religious upbringing.
lol my word is faith55.
is this word generator psychic or something?
I can’t remember my exact age when I read my first romance, but it was in the neighborhood of 10. My 11 year-old daughter picked one up I had laying about this house this week and started to read it – then couldn’t put it down. My reaction? Eeep! I keep thinking of that line from The Waste Land: You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!
I think my discomfort is due to my motherly fear that in her curiosity she’ll want to try certain things for herself to see if the book version is right, unlike my response which was to take the book’s word for it. Though of course, the first ones I read inevitably included the “you little fool!” scene and general hero asshattery and I was in no hurry for some guy to treat me like an imbecile. That particular kind of thing doesn’t pop up too often in the books I’m reading these days.
I had a quick Google, and found a site listing a few with pictures. There’s one with a woman in a green shirt. Title was, Desperate Yearning by Dallas Hamlin.Have a look here: http://tinyurl.com/3xgjwh Sadly, nothing else rang a bell. I wish you luck in your searches!
LOL Lyvie!
I started reading romance when I was about 13 – much to the relief of my parents I might add. I started reading political theory when I was about 10 and I think they were happier to see a Candlelight Ecstasy on my bedside table rather than Das Kapital or The Motorcycle Diaries if it would divert my attention away from getting my brothers to join my union to push for a pocket money wage increase.
I wonder if I still have that old Candlelight Ecstasy… the hero was a sexist asshat and the hawt sex was almost rape – complete with ripped clothes and heroine shrieks of “No No No! Yes Yes YES!”
LA…many commenters here share your theory of a physic word generator…it’s kinda eerie.
I had an extremely strict religious upbringing too, but my parents were very upfront about sex. By the time I was 10, I knew the basics, so it didn’t automatically make me want to go out & try what was in the books. 🙂 I just appreciated the tittilation factor. 😀