So thrilled to find this group!

[Kay]

Hi! I spend countless hours searching for good love stories that don't contain explicit sex scenes. I'm so glad to have found this group and can't wait to poke around. :)

[Ruth]

Hi Kay,

Have you ever checked out any of Astraea Press' books? They are all clean reads and they have all genres. :)

[Kay]

No but I will! Between that and finding this group my day is shot! lol

[Joyce, Group Creator]

Welcome, Kay! We hope you will find many wonderful reads on our group bookshelf. If you have any favorite clean secular romances that aren't on our shelves, please feel free to add them. :-)

[Kay]

Thanks, Joyce! I posted in Recommendations but I honestly don't know if my book can be considered clean. To me it is (it has no graphic descriptions of play-by-play sex), but this thing is so subjective! :)

What matters more is now I have more options for my own reading list. I like reading love stories, not erotica. I'm no prude but it seems most romance novels contain so much graphic sex it just takes away from the story. A little sex, sure. But page after page of who put what where...no thanks. I want to read about love. Not sex. Maybe I'm boring but that's me!

[Kathleen]

Hi Kay: You may want to check out this blog post put out by Macgregor literary. It is a fun list of favorite squeaky clean reads:
http://forgetmenotromances.com/2013/1...

Enjoy! Kathleen

[Kay]

Thanks, Kathleen. I'll check it out.

[[deleted user]]

Kay, I hesitate to promote my book as a romance, since it doesn't strictly abide by the genre rules, but it is a love story, and there is no explicit sex or violence...

[Kay]

Well, I'm more into love stories than romances due to those romance genre rules you mention. So I will definitely have a look at your book, Gary.

[Ramla Zareen]

Hi, I just joined this group today and though I initiated my own "Hello everyone, really happy to be here! :-)" discussion thread, but felt like greeting everyone individually too! 

Well, looking forward to great recommendations and wonderful friendships :-)

Thanks and Happy Reading! :-)
--Ramla Zareen 

[Kay]

Hi Ramla, I completely forgot I'd started this thread! I mostly lurk in these parts. It's nice to meet you. :)

[Ramla Zareen]

Kay wrote: "Hi Ramla, I completely forgot I'd started this thread! I mostly lurk in these parts. It's nice to meet you. :)"

Nice to meet you too, Kay :-)