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Our Literary Inheritance Part II: Reading Romance Despite Other People’s Efforts

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Last week, we talked about the people who introduced us to the romance genre, the people – often women – who gave us our first romance, or who shared a book that turned us into romance readers. I mentioned in that entry that some of us are “people who discover the genre in spite of the efforts of a relative to keep us away from it. We hide books under beds, we sneak them in … Continue reading Our Literary Inheritance Part II: Reading Romance Despite Other People’s Efforts

Romance: Our Literary Inheritance

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I’ve noticed an interesting pattern when we talk about how we discovered the romance genre. For some people, romance is what I’ve called our literary inheritance. We’re introduced to a novel, or an author, or an entire bag of books (woo!) by an aunt, a mom, a babysitter, a cousin, a friend. The story so often goes that a female introduced us to the genre, and brought us into this community of readers. The other … Continue reading Romance: Our Literary Inheritance