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Babytortes · 30-04-2007, 19:18

Mills and boon? What dat?

Autumn_Breeze · 30-04-2007, 20:13

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Originally Posted by Babytortes

Mills and boon? What dat?

Romantic fiction more for the woman in her twilight years. There's a muscular hero, a frail, girly heroine and a happy ending with lots of things like 'her bosom heaved as he brushed his lips against hers'. I'm not sure if it goes as far as 'his quivering manhood pulsated', but they're not for me.

Babytortes · 30-04-2007, 20:31

Ah. I have a stack of bodice rippers from the 70s, Valerie Sherwood, Rosemary Rogers, etc that I can't throw out because they look 'so bad they look good.'

I swear I'll read them this year. Also Sidney Sheldon, Harold Robbins, Jacqueline Susann...I buy them used because they are trash classics and I never read them.

I like Georgette Heyer. She wrote Regency stuff.

Babytortes · 30-04-2007, 20:35

I started a new book.

''What The Dead Know'' by Laura Lippman.

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Edgar-winner Lippman, author of the Tess Monaghan mystery series (No Good Deeds, etc.), shows she's as good as Peter Abrahams and other A-list thriller writers with this outstanding stand-alone. A driver who flees a car accident on a Maryland highway breathes new life into a 30-year-old mysteryâ€”the disappearance of the young Bethany sisters at a shopping mallâ€”after she later tells the police she's one of the missing girls. As soon as the mystery woman drops that bombshell, she clams up, placing the new lead detective, Kevin Infante, in a bind, as he struggles to gain her trust while exploring the odd holes in her story. Deftly moving between past and present, Lippman presents the last day both sisters, Sunny and Heather, were seen alive from a variety of perspectives. Subtle clues point to the surprising but plausible solution of the crime and the identity of the mystery woman. Lippman, who has also won Shamus, Agatha, Anthony and Nero Wolfe awards, should gain many new fans with this superb effort.

How did I miss this author? She has written a ton of novels and I never heard of her.

Snappy, funny mystery writer. Sharp dialogue, interesting characters.

Ernest Rants · 30-04-2007, 20:45

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Romantic fiction more for the woman in her twilight years. There's a muscular hero, a frail, girly heroine and a happy ending with lots of things like 'her bosom heaved as he brushed his lips against hers'. I'm not sure if it goes as far as 'his quivering manhood pulsated', but they're not for me.

well it's more poetic than ' he got a stonker on'

Snapper · 30-04-2007, 23:59

HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian. Its the third book in the Master and Commander series, highly regarded as one of the greatest historical novel series of all time. I started reading the books after loving the film, this book is the third the story the film was based on is number 10, still at least its a no brainer for people when it comes to birthday presents!