I haven't made up my mind on the Desperate Duchesses yet :D But I'll buy them just the same, cos... It's Eloisa James! *fangirls Mayne some more*
*nods at your list* That's my bookshelf! I'm like you in that I've read most of the big names and a whole heap of one off smaller authors via our local library which has a pretty decent Romance collection. And I indulge myself in buying secondhand trashy!romance as much as possible for the excruciating plots and dialogue...
We have a store here in Perth that is devoted exclusively to romance - and since it opened I've religiously bought one book a month of my "keepers" basically all of Quinn, Laurens and James - but next time I shall be adventurous and seek out Joan Wolf!
Recently (as in over the last 5 years) I've been following Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series - starting with "Outlander/Cross Stitch", which can be classified as historical romance, but crosses several genre boundaries. They're set in the 1700's (specifically Jacobean Scotland and then later pre-revolutionary America), involve time travel (done well, mind you) and I really love these books, despite the last one being a HUGE hefty tome of massiveness :P
Then related (sort of, in that the authors are friends and work similarly) to these is another series by Sara Donati starting with "Into the Wilderness" These are actually sequels (of a sort) to one of my all time favourite novels "The Last of the Mohicans" but again - sprawling epic historical romance. :D
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*nods at your list* That's my bookshelf! I'm like you in that I've read most of the big names and a whole heap of one off smaller authors via our local library which has a pretty decent Romance collection. And I indulge myself in buying secondhand trashy!romance as much as possible for the excruciating plots and dialogue...
We have a store here in Perth that is devoted exclusively to romance - and since it opened I've religiously bought one book a month of my "keepers" basically all of Quinn, Laurens and James - but next time I shall be adventurous and seek out Joan Wolf!
Recently (as in over the last 5 years) I've been following Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series - starting with "Outlander/Cross Stitch", which can be classified as historical romance, but crosses several genre boundaries. They're set in the 1700's (specifically Jacobean Scotland and then later pre-revolutionary America), involve time travel (done well, mind you) and I really love these books, despite the last one being a HUGE hefty tome of massiveness :P
Then related (sort of, in that the authors are friends and work similarly) to these is another series by Sara Donati starting with "Into the Wilderness" These are actually sequels (of a sort) to one of my all time favourite novels "The Last of the Mohicans" but again - sprawling epic historical romance. :D
I love talking about books too!!