Top 10 Summer Romances of 2010. Summer reading and winter reading vary greatly one from the other.
During the winter, readers want to cozy up with a good book by their fire places and drink a glass of Sherry or a cup of hot coca. During the summer, readers want something they can read by the pool, something that can draw their minds away from the blazing heat of the sun and into the heat of their novel. Dark romances are best read during the winter when readers can delve into the depths of the novel and dwell on the intricate spirals of details found there, unless it has some comedic tendencies. Funny vampire books are good for summer or winter months, where as Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire is best left for a winter night when the cold chill can add to the book’s intensity.
Top 10 Summer Romance Novels of 2010 Classic Summer Romances. Jordan: Classical Chinese Novels. A Brief Guide to the Most Influential Why Novels Matter in a Largely Illiterate Society. Chinese popular culture, including popular religion, involves the ideas that ordinary people hold about a wide range of topics, ideas that were always influenced by the media of theatricals and storytelling. Theatrical troupes were traditionally hired to present performances in front of temples on the occasion of almost any kind of theatrical festival, and many temples had more or less permanent stages built opposite their doors, facing the main altar, so that the gods enshrined in the temple could enjoy the performances.
Most gods would have had difficulty seeing over the heads of the crowd that assembled to join them in this enjoyment, for people, of course, flocked to participate in this break in routine. But in addition traveling theatrical troupes of puppets or human actors performed with "commercial breaks" to sell medicines, soap, or other commodities, or simply to take a collection. INTERVIEW: Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels. No bloggers in the world of online book reviewing have carved out such a distinct niche in so short a time as Sarah and Candy of Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels.
The duo are legendary for acute observations on the world of women’s fiction, and romance in particular, delivered with unbridled snark and a liberal dose of profanity. Recently, the two indulged Kathleen and Therese’s curiousity about reviewing books, what readers are looking for, and why man-titty covers are here to stay. Q: Where did the concept for Smart Bitches, Trashy Books come from?
Sarah: Well, there was this tsunami. The short answer is that Candy used to comment on my personal site (at LENGTH – you have never met a person in such dire need of her own blog before) and I mis-remembered her as being from Indonesia. She responded kindly instead of pointing out what a geographical moron I am, and we got to emailing back and forth. And Smart Bitches, Trashy Books was born.
Candy: Ohmigod, yes. A satisfying read? 1. Come for the Dominican Bitches, Stay for the Man Titty. Romance Reader, Unashamed. Any reader of romance novels can tell you the stereotypes of the books and their readers. If you're not a romance reader, there's a good chance you can come up with them anyway: Frumpy housewives engaged in heavy breathing over thoughts of Fabio (as pirate, as viking, in a kilt...) ripping bodices.
Rape fantasies for the sexually repressed. Tales of weak women rescued by strong men. Clumsy prose and overheated yet laughably euphemistic sex scenes. Feminists don't read romance novels. A great deal could be said about how fiction by and for women is rated in relation to more masculinist fiction -- whether it be Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens or Henry James -- but in this case, by "romance novel," I mean genre romance. That said: Hi, my name is Laura and I'm a life-long feminist with an Ivy League PhD and nary a pink sweatsuit in the house. Once upon a time I embraced the judgment. Myth: Romance novels glamorize rape. Myth: Romance novels are just porn for women. Romance by the book: Never judge by the cover.
From the covers of most romance novels, the casual reader would think all romance heroines are magazine-cover beautiful.
But what's on the cover and what's in the pages are often worlds apart. "Inside, it's about finding someone who loves you completely just the way you are, even in your puppy-dog jammies," says romance blogger Sarah Wendell, co-author of Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels. And the depiction of heroines as impossibly perfect beauties is an outdated image that "was always unbelievable and has changed and changed quickly," Wendell says. "The standard has become much more sophisticated and diverse. " As a romance fan and writer, Maya Rodale says much more emphasis is now placed on "feeling beautiful instead of just looking beautiful. " SECRETS: Romance writers share their secrets for looking good, feeling beautiful Handout Beyond Heaving Bosoms The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan.
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