This is exactly how I feel when people diss romance. Thank you.
You're very welcome. BTW, as a romance reader, perhaps you can help me. I had a conversation about genre and reading tastes with a lab tech who was drawing my blood a while back. He commented that he reads everything, except romance, and I mentioned that while I don't read widely in that area, I've come across some really excellent examples in the genre. So, he's challenged me to come up with some titles that would appeal to guys. Any suggestions?
"Never apologize for your reading tastes." Betty Rosenberg (librarian author of Genreflecting, a classic of library literature).
I'm more likely to respond indignantly, than to apologize, although I do try to keep things civil. *g* That book sounds interesting. I wonder if our local library has a copy. At the very least, I'm curious about a few definitions (which seem to have shifted when I wasn't looking), and I'd like to check out the essays mentioned in the Amazon review (http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGenreflecting-Popular-Reading-Interests-Advisory%2Fdp%2F1591582865&tag=stracast-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325).
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Date: 2008-09-23 03:31 am (UTC)You're very welcome. BTW, as a romance reader, perhaps you can help me. I had a conversation about genre and reading tastes with a lab tech who was drawing my blood a while back. He commented that he reads everything, except romance, and I mentioned that while I don't read widely in that area, I've come across some really excellent examples in the genre. So, he's challenged me to come up with some titles that would appeal to guys. Any suggestions?
"Never apologize for your reading tastes." Betty Rosenberg (librarian author of Genreflecting, a classic of library literature).
I'm more likely to respond indignantly, than to apologize, although I do try to keep things civil. *g* That book sounds interesting. I wonder if our local library has a copy. At the very least, I'm curious about a few definitions (which seem to have shifted when I wasn't looking), and I'd like to check out the essays mentioned in the Amazon review (http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGenreflecting-Popular-Reading-Interests-Advisory%2Fdp%2F1591582865&tag=stracast-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325)