I am currently reading Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I got it free from the Kindle store because it's being offered as a promotion. The book came out in 1991 and is the first of a series, so in that way it's typical of a lot of promotional (i.e., free or temporarily free) ebooks ( Read more... )

Jane Austen wrote the "chick lit" of her day.  And when you look at her story lines, they are about marriage--mostly love, too, but not for every couple in the story.  Today's romance readers are the most voracious readers out there.  Movies seem to belong more to men--look how few roles there are for women in so many movies.  Oceans 11?  11 guys ( Read more... )