The article discusses the popularity of Amish romance novels by Beverly Lewis, Cindy Woodsmall, Wanda Brunstetter, and others, and attributes it to a desire among readers for love stories centered around chastity, modesty, and fidelity.Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition...
The great majority of the participants (85%) reportedly exchange views about their reading of erotic novels with others. Sixty-five percent do so with their friends, 34% share their experience with other fans or interested readers, 27% of participants with their partner, and 6% with other peo...
In the world of romance novels, people are allowed to feeling whatever and however they want, and often those emotions are dialed up to 11. Isn't it nice sometimes to crack open a book and bask in the glow of pure emotion? Sometimes we all have a lot of feelings, and we aren't ...
word after word, first kiss after first kiss. There are tremendous perks to this job—working from home, not having to wear pants, being the boss lady of my own fictional worlds where all the (paper) people do whatever I tell them to. In the process of creating these books, I can al...
romance is no exception. This comes on the heels of Netflix’sBridgertontopping most-watched lists and raking in accolades. (Though it’s not without criticism, especially inits takes on consent). “Non-romance readers read romance” has almost become its own article genre. And rarely do ...
While storytelling is still vital in these genres—and Jerry constantly promotes using fiction techniques in nonfiction—the books in these categories have events, people, and concepts based entirely on fact and reality. Memoir & Autobiography
These two words are different cases of the same [pronoun, which are forms which provide clarity. Even people who don’t know how to define “case” notice the incorrect sound when a young child screams, “Me do it!” By school age most of us figure out that “I” is used for the ...
In historical novels, the people we meet face different challenges to our own, have been moulded by a different culture, must react to a different context. But they are still people. I want to read about people who are real to me while I’m in the book, and stay with me when I ...
So, what motivates authors to gift all or some of their work to you via Obooko? What inspires them to share free books to read with people all around the world without anyfinancial gain? And in what ways do they benefit? To save you guessing, here are is a selection of views from ...
Knowing what we do about Sontag’s sexuality, it is hard not to read this section of her essay without thinking about the way her sidelining of camp resembles a certain, rather dated kind of apologetic argument on behalf of gay and bisexual people: What we do is just anothe...