Meg Cabot, Comfort Reads, and Sheikh Romance
May 22, 2007 | Tuesday at 4:47 pm | 108 CommentsBitchery member Sara forwarded me a link from YA-powerhouse Meg Cabot’s website, wherein Ms. Cabot poses her favorite 80’s romances gently on the sofa and talks about how much she loves some seriously cheesy comfort reads.
Oh yeah, Meg. I hear you on old school comfort reads. Come on over here and sit with me and my copy of Midsummer Magic.
Her summaries of some of the books are just like some of my dusty recollections of romances I read when I first discovered romance: ...he thinks she’s a boy during the day, duh, and because she has to shut him up or they’ll get arrested or something. Look, my memory on the details are a bit sketchy. I just know it was good when I was 19 or whatever…..
Plus, there’s a shot of Fabio with green eyeshadow.
But the part of the entry I keep re-reading is her romantic swooning over sheikh romances. Far be it from me to ever knock another person’s reading choices, because I love and cherish my share of very bad romances, but I do not understand the appeal and allure of sheikh romance. Please! Enlighten the bitch?
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