TJ
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Post by TJ on Dec 14, 2003 13:18:07 GMT -5
Original Thread started on: Nov 23rd, 2003, 3:35pm By: TJ Tell Us Those Awesome
ROMANCE NOVELS
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Post by Mac on Apr 12, 2004 11:22:53 GMT -5
On very rare occasions I like a romantic book, that is when there is also humor in it like e.g. Bridget Jones' diary or so (beware me of the Jude Deverauxs and Bertrice Smalls' of this world  , 'oh, Roderick, your sword is so big and I'm just a meaningless, stupid, little girl who is not worth kissing your feet' yeeeeks, books like that should be forbidden). I just finished a novel by German author, called Jill Karoly. It is called 'Sex or solo'. It's about two women with a great interest in astrology. One of them, Gianna, is single. The other one is Kirsten and married with the handsome gynaecologist Mark and mother of a teenage-daughter. Gianna and Mark fall in love with eachother when he helps her after a squash-accident. Gianna believes he's a real Prince Charming and tries everything to conquer him. Kirsten finds out that her Mark has an affair with a mysterious woman and freaks out. She leaves him. Gianna moves in with her prince but soon discovers he turns into a frog (an arrogant doctor in his midlife crisis with all the required elements : a Ducati-bike, a long leather jacket, etc.) The story is original because each chapter is in the point of view of one of the two women and starts with a typical ladies' magazine horoscope (only the last chapter starts with another horoscope, and Mark does his story). It is in written in a very humoristic language. |
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Post by Zinkx on Apr 19, 2004 12:16:20 GMT -5
 [shadow=red,left,300]I Love Romance [/shadow] TJ Modified The Shadow Code
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Post by Tomb Raider on Jun 25, 2004 11:07:05 GMT -5
If you like romance [but not the mushy kind] an excellent book is "Cross Stitch" by Diana Gabaldon.It's the first in a series of 5 books so far,/me she's still writing the 6th at this time.
It's the story of Claire a woman who served in the forces as a nurse during WW2. She and her husband are having their Honeymoon [which had to be postponed because of the war]in Scotland where they were married.Whilst exploring in the hills she finds a stone circle, walks in and finds herself in the 17th century. The story follows the Jacobite rising and Claire's relationship with Jamie a young Highlander she meets. Everyone I gave this book to went out and bought the rest of the series. I think that speaks for itself. It is an excellent story.
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Post by Mac on Mar 14, 2005 13:56:30 GMT -5
The Shopaholic-books by Sophie (?) Kinsella are rather entertaining. There are 3 of them so far.
It's about a young woman called Rebecca 'Becky' Bloomwood, who is obsessed by clothes, shoes, handbags, in short : shops!
It's very humoristic and you really have to love the Becky-character although she's a bit of a spoiled brad with a very strange view on the world.
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