[bksvol-discuss] Re: Reading as therapy
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:48:45 -0800 (PST)
I love the Lisa Kleyas books. The characters are
well-developed--amazing how an author can make
similar-type characters have different personalities
in a series of books. And I loved and read every
Bertrice Small book except the fantasy ones and the
latest, that didn't get very good read review--but
I'll probably read it and find that I enjoy it. Both
authors write so-called "historical" romances, but in
Kleypas' the history is more just setting and class
distinctions, and in Small's they involve historical
events and people and social customs. After what Ann
wrote I'll try a Georgette Heyer. I prefer my
historical novels set among the upper classes rather
than working classes and in Europe rather than the
U.S. smile Anne Perry' Thomas and Charlotte Pitt
series are good if you like mysteries. They're set in
Victorian England and bring in not only class
distinctions but social and political situations.
G.Cindy
G.Cindy
--- Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ann, lol. I am an *incurable* romantic! Not that I
> myself am--I'm
> dull, really--but I like a good romance as long as
> it doesn't get real
> mushy lol. My favorite genre is christian fiction.
> Lissi gave me 2 big
> honkin volumes of that only to have my optacon bite
> it. When it gets
> fixed, I'll scan those--I think they're about 600
> pages each. I told
> her then I could probably use those as therapy &
> actually did share
> w/her why at the time. I picked up a Dani Ross
> mystery by Gil
> Morrison. I hope I do not encounter the same
> difficulty. I wish the
> bookshare system included ratings for violence,
> language, & sexual
> content like NLS. I realize there's an adult content
> filter but that's
> not the same thing. In fairness to the author of
> Boundary Waters, he
> was not excessive about his description--underplayed
> it if
> anything--it's just I'm too sensitive & too easily
> upset by that
> kind of thing right now. Till this happened I
> thought I was *sooo*
> tough. Seems like every day I'm finding out
> otherwise. So many
> lessons we're put here to learn & such hard ones.
>
> On 1/11/08, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Yes, G. Cindy, I agree that for Jackie, reading
> light romances and
> > historical fiction might be good. I used to
> retreat back into Tolkien
> > and C.S. Lewis when I needed escape reading.
> These Old Shades by
> > Georgette Heyer is a good Regency if you like that
> sort of thing.
> > Reading anything which is totally different from
> life as it is now,
> > works. Somehow, I don't think Jackie would like
> romances, but maybe
> > I'm wrong. Hey, the Science Fiction book club is
> reading Lucifer's
> > Hammer by Niven if that appeals. Get yourself
> lost in the troubles of
> > others.
> >
> > Ann P.
> >
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