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I’d call them welcome. If they’re willing to read and enjoy romance once, there’s every possibility that they’ll do it again. And before you know it, they will be refuting the biases!

I need a word for the fuzzy gray area of people who somehow read a romance novel they enjoy and then recommend it to people with a tone of condescending amazement: “Hey guys, this is ACTUALLY good!”

They’re not really romance readers but they’re willing to read and enjoy romances but they display evidence of retaining and believing all of the biases about the genre.

What do we call them?

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“How is it when you fall in love you feel as if suddenly you are seeing the world as it really is?”

from Eros: The Bittersweet, Anne Carson

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“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” 

The Importance of Being Earnest  Oscar Wilde

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Am I the Only One Who Hates The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons?

Am I the Only One Who Hates The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons?

Paperback, 810 pages Published September 8th 2009 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 2001) The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their…

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A letter from Syd Barrett to Jenny Spires.

December, 1964. An 18-year-old aspiring musician called Roger writes an endearing illustrated letter to his girlfriend, Jenny Spires, in which he describes his band’s first recording session: 

Dear Jen, you are a little dish. I’ll tell you everything that happened at the recording. We took all the gear into the studio which was lit by horrid white lights, and covered with wires and microphones. Rog had his amp behind a screen and Nicki was also screened off, and after a little bit of chat we tested everything for balance, and then recorded five numbers more or less straight off; but only the guitars and drums. We'r going to add all the singing and piano etc. next Wednesday. The tracks sound terrific so far, especially King Bee. When I sing I have to stand in the middle of the studio with ear phones on, and everyone else watches from the other room, and I can’t see them at all but they can all see me. Also I can only just hear what I’m singing. I hope you got home alright Jen, and that you had a good time. You wouldn’t have been able to come in to the recording and anyway it went on till after midnight, and would have been a whopping drag for you. It was a nice thing to be which was tra tra la. (do not bother to interupt) Do what you want Jen. I love you very much and want to hear from you and you are very pretty. I am a bit fed up with everything today and I want to be in Cambridge or Greece but not in London where all I do is spend money and travel. The sun is shining though. Love, Roger.

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Syd Barrett and a girl that may be one of his girlfriends, Jenny Spires.

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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.

Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

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Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper in Betrayal.

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Did someone call this guy's name?

I have such a weakness for characters who use snark and humor to cover up the fact that they feel like huge fuck ups but they’re actually heroes with hearts of gold and smart as all hell

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Romance readers -- I implore you! Please introduce yourself! I want to know you better!

Reblog this if its okay for your followers to introduce themselves to you.

Just come to my ask box and tell me stuff about yourself. Your pets. Your favorite music. What you had for breakfast this morning. Literally anything you want, I love making new friends

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Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey (via books-n-quotes)

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This makes me think of 1960s Mills and Boons romances. 

Jean Shrimpton modelling Burberry

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Well I think we know now why the Victorian Christmas romance anthology is such a rare bird -- mutton chops and snoods. 

Victorian Christmas romance anthologies are much harder to come by than their Regency counterparts, but here is one from 1992. Mary Jo Putney’s The Black Beast of Belleterre is a take on Beauty and the Beast. The other novellas are Christmas Angel by Patricia Rice, The Bird of Paradise by Edith Layton, Second Chance by Patricia Gaffney, and Kidnapped for Christmas by Betina Krahn.

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I’ve been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take out the garbage.

Zsa Zsa Gabor (via early-onset-of-night)

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The Umbrella Maker's Daughter by Janet Caird

The Umbrella Maker’s Daughter by Janet Caird

Do you also like to read something that’s not romance sometimes? Check out Remember That One Book!

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Kitty is pretty. So is her inamorata Adam Ant.

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