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: Regency
November 02, 2011 | Wednesday | 32 Comments
Here’s a strange question for you. Does a contemporary romance set in urban parts of England signal Chick Lit to you as a US (or outside-the-US) reader? One of the conversations I was having this past weekend in Seattle at the Emerald City Writer’s Conference centered on setting and locations, and how some locations signal certain genres. The question about single women finding romance in urban parts of England instantly meaning Chick Lit for US readers made me wonder - I didn’t *think* it was true but outside of Harlequin category romances, I couldn’t think of any single title romances…
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September 16, 2011 | Friday | 7 Comments
Nik sent this request in, and I am betting someone remembers this one, although I have never heard of a Regency hero whose hangup was that he was losing his hair. I’m looking for an anthology that contained a story I really loved. I’m 99% sure the anthology was all Regency stories, and all the stories may have all taken place at the same house party (or not). So, in this story, the hero and heroine meet at a house party. She’s the daughter of a vicar or minor gentleman, and is totally a daddy’s girl. At one point, she…
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August 21, 2011 | Sunday | 4 Comments
Good heavens, she ejaculated! People buy Heyer books when they are on sale! Pass the ratafia, and let’s toast! And cheers again to Brook, Crane, and Myles for topping the List with No Name for the second week in a row, she ejaculated again! Wild & Steamy Carolyn Crane, Jill Myles, and Meljean Brook [Amazon | BN: nook | AllRomance | Goodreads | Smashwords] Hearts Aflame Johanna Lindsey [Amazon | BN | WORD | Kobo | WORD Brooklyn] Venetia Georgette Heyer [Kindle | Kobo | BN] Frederica Georgette Heyer [Kindle | Kobo | AllRomance | WORD Brooklyn] Devil’s Cub…
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August 17, 2011 | Wednesday | 36 Comments
I decided to read this to cleanse the palate, in a roundabout way, after my feelings of repulsion at The Grand Sophy. I think after this I will be taking a long break from Heyer, but I’m glad I read it. Nothing wrong with a bit of reformed rake historical romance. Venetia is an uncommon country girl heroine, living in Yorkshire with her younger brother, Aubrey, who is brilliant intellectually though troubled physically by a pronounced limp. Their eldest brother, Conway, is in the military, and the burden of running their estate and managing all the family details has fallen…
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August 14, 2011 | Sunday | 12 Comments
This request comes from Tanya, who thinks this may be a recent book: I’m hoping you can help, I think it will be easy but I read this book not too long ago (maybe within the last 2 years?) and pretty sure that is has come out recently but can’t recall title or author - here’s what has stuck in my mind: Hero is somewhat tortured and plays an instrument (violin/cello?) but not for public enjoyment and the heroine is also a musician, piano I’m pretty sure. They play a duet at a house party, some of which is music…
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June 27, 2011 | Monday | 3 Comments
This review for the RITA® Reader Challenge was written by PLaatsch. This novel finaled in the Regency Historical category. Plot Summary: When he becomes seventh Earl of Danecroft, rakish John Fitzhugh Wyckerly also inherits a crumbling estate and massive debts. Determined to do right, he reclaims his illegitimate daughter Penelope and heads to London in search of a very rich wife. Abigail Merriweather’s farm has been quiet since she lost custody of her four young half-siblings-until a roguish gentleman named Fitz stops for a rest, his rebellious daughter in tow. His etiquette is questionable, his parenting deplorable-so why does Abby…
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June 27, 2011 | Monday | 1 Comments
No review was submitted for this book for the RITA® Reader Challenge, so I have searched out other strong reviews to supplement. I am not, however, assigning a grade to this review. This book finaled in the Regency Historical Romance category. Plot Summary: An expert in antiquities, Lady Alessandra della Giamatti arrives in Bath to excavate newly discovered Roman ruins-only to find herself caught in a web of evil intrigue by a blackmailer threatening to expose her scandalous past. The one man who can help her is Lord James “Black Jack” Pierson, a fellow member of the expedition and a…
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June 22, 2011 | Wednesday | 79 Comments
As I mentioned earlier, my recent email exchange with Robinjn following her re-examination of LaVyrle Spencer’s Years got me thinking generally about age differences in romance, and how reactions can vary depending on sub-genre, character, and conflict. In historical romances, the age difference is often expected, or at the least not worth noticing as a potential conflict. In many historicals, the women are younger and possibly virginal, and likely looking or staunchly not looking for a husband (except for that steaming attraction to that guy) (and maybe at some point she wears a pelisse or some boy’s trousers) (or both).…
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June 09, 2011 | Thursday | 6 Comments
SusiB reviewed this book for the RITA® Reader Challenge. This novel was nominated for best Regency historical romance. Plot summary: The daring members of the Stud Club are reckless gamblers and no strangers to risk—until love raises the stakes in Twice Tempted by a Rogue. Luck is a double-edged sword for brooding war hero Rhys St. Maur. His death wish went unanswered on the battlefield, while fate allowed the murder of his good friend in the elite gentlemen’s society known as the Stud Club. Out of options, Rhys returns to his ancestral home on the moors of Devonshire, expecting anything…
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April 17, 2011 | Sunday | 9 Comments
Susana is looking for a Regency, and this one is based on her recollection of a specific scene. Anyone recall this book? I have been trying to remember the name of a book that I read years ago for a long time. My problem is that I read so many at the time that I get some of the plot points intertwined with other books. Anyway, what I know for sure is this particular book is that it’s a regency era historical. The hero and heroine end up married in the first half of the book and there is some…
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October 05, 2010 | Tuesday | 134 Comments
The BookMatcher is Billie Bloebaum, book buyer for Powell’s in the Portland Airport, and she brings the art of handselling books based on interest to folks writing in online for her help. Today’s request is from ninjapenguin: If so, I have kind of an unusual request. See, thanks to your site, I have recently been introduced to the world of well-written romance novels. (Previously I had only been cognizant of the rather horrifyingly rape-tastic old school ones my grandmother would leave out.) Specifically, I have started reading, and consequently, falling hard for Georgette Heyer. But where do I go from…
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May 01, 2010 | Saturday | 14 Comments
Lucy is looking for a book, and as usual, the description cracks me up like bad and gosh: I’m looking for a great book I read ages ago (as you may have guessed). Its a regency period romance, I remember the cover was purple and shimmery with just text on it. In the story, I think it starts with the heroine having been to finishing school in France or something. Anyway, she comes back to England and is living with her Aunt(?) who used to be a famous mistress back in her day. Anyway, she’s looking for a husband, as…
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January 28, 2010 | Thursday | 24 Comments
Grab your lasso and your chaps, because we’re going back to college to round up some romance in academia links. First: on 23 February at 12:30 pm at Brandeis University, documentary filmmaker Laurie Kahn, who directed Tupperware!, a documentary about Tupperware and the women behind it, for PBS’ American Experience, will be talking about her new work-in-progress, “Creating the Popular Romance.” From the press release, sent to me by awesome reader Michael: The world of romance novels (who writes them? who reads them? who publishes them? why are they so popular? and what do they say about our culture?) is…
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January 22, 2010 | Friday | 136 Comments
I know some of you hate the Twitter with a hot tweety passion, but I wanted to let you know that I’m giving away digital copies of Lessons in French today, courtesy of Sourcebooks Casablanca. So if you’re online, watch for hastag #lif and see what crazy trivia I come up with today. This week we’ve done French idioms (Faire une carte de France? I better see that in a romance novel REAL soon), animal husbandry, bulls in fiction, and Regency insults and trivia. Oh, and Great Moments in Women’s History, with your host, Napoleon Bonaparte. But suppose you want…
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November 09, 2009 | Monday | 9 Comments
Trudy writes: There was a book that came out, maybe in the 80s or early 90s - the basic plot is: It’s a time travel. An earl, during Regency era, is attacked by someone and travels thru time to the present. He meets up with a gal from Virginia (I think) and she tries to help him solve what happened to him. They do all this research and find out he was murdered (unsolved) and was the end of his direct line to the earldom. At first he’s anxious to get back but the two fall in love. She arranges…
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