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Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
by Sarah Wendell (Goodreads Author), Candy Tan
by Sarah Wendell (Goodreads Author), Candy Tan
Karla (Mossy Love Grotto)'s review
bookshelves: non-fiction, contemporary-romance, historical-romance, 2-stars
Aug 09, 10
bookshelves: non-fiction, contemporary-romance, historical-romance, 2-stars
Recommended for:
people who love new romance over old
read count: 1
Meh. Maybe I'd have appreciated it a bit more if I was into the current romance trends and all that. I find the SMTB blog of erratic interest at best, anyway (omg, just shut up with the epub techno wankfests). The snark got old, and the same authors and titles mentioned over and over didn't show much breadth of opinions and options. In the end, it all seemed pretty narrow and shallow.
Plus there's the difficulty I have staying interested in ANY humor-based book. Not that I don't love the lulz, but in the written word, I often end up getting bored.
Plus there's the difficulty I have staying interested in ANY humor-based book. Not that I don't love the lulz, but in the written word, I often end up getting bored.
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| 06/28/2010 | page 54 |
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19.0% | "OK, the humor's starting to pall, so setting aside for a day or two." |
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I had this out from the lib once but I think I wasn't in the mood at the time and returned it.
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It's definitely a book dependent on mood, at least for me. Too much snark is too much of a good thing. I'll just read a chapter a week or something.
I'm still reading my copy... have been since July. You are correct - I do feel like they used some of the same examples over and over again. I liked it for the history aspect of it, that's about it. The snark although funny at first got a bit old. I was disappointed that I wasn't able to get more book recommendations out of it. Most I had already received right here on GRs.
Yeah, when I kept seeing Kinsale rec'd over and over, I gave up since I don't much like her stuff.I guess part of my meh attitude was that it started to sound like a bible for those readers who vaunt the new over the old romances, and it got a little tiresome to be constantly informed just how much better things are now in the genre from the dark, dank days of the bodice ripper.
