37 weeks; books
Jun. 28th, 2006 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaWait 50 minutes, weight 171, BP 100/58, heartbeat good, head down, argument about "waspy" vs. "Polish" names for Dillo ongoing. Maybe we should just name the kid Dillo and have done with it.
Books read:
Loretta Chase, Isabella.
Loretta Chase, Knaves' Wager.
Loretta Chase, The Sandalwood Princess.
All vintage late 1980s. Reading them in swift succession made me less appreciative than I otherwise might have been; I found the heroes tended to be a bit overbearing and the heroines a bit dim/driven by emotion/in need of rescue. Knaves' Wager especially made me a bit pissy - nobody should fall in love with someone who is so much of an asshole. Despite these failings, the characters resembled actual humans, the setting was mostly historically accurate, and the writing capable - all, I suspect, more common in those days than now.
Books read:
Loretta Chase, Isabella.
Loretta Chase, Knaves' Wager.
Loretta Chase, The Sandalwood Princess.
All vintage late 1980s. Reading them in swift succession made me less appreciative than I otherwise might have been; I found the heroes tended to be a bit overbearing and the heroines a bit dim/driven by emotion/in need of rescue. Knaves' Wager especially made me a bit pissy - nobody should fall in love with someone who is so much of an asshole. Despite these failings, the characters resembled actual humans, the setting was mostly historically accurate, and the writing capable - all, I suspect, more common in those days than now.
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Date: 2006-06-28 10:09 pm (UTC)But as for the late 80's romances being better, I think that's at least partly because the 20-year-old romances that are still being reprinted and read are the cream of the crop. I recently picked up a batch of 80's Regencies by unknown writers at my local thrift store hoping to find buried treasure and for the most part struck out. However, they were bad in a different way than current bad Regencies. The 80's books ran to overbearing heroes, petulant foot-stomping heroines that I was apparently supposed to find adorable, and lots of melodrama. 2006 bad Regencies are ahistorical fluff with sexually liberated heroines and heroes in stupidly named spy clubs.
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Date: 2006-06-29 05:58 am (UTC)(What? Copernicus was a Polish person's name. In Latin.)