Carla Kelly is good, but out of print. I like Eloisa James, but everyone else I know hates her. Laura Kinsale's Seize the Fire is charming and has penguins. (Her other books are good but darker.)
A kind soul has offered to send me used copies of Carla Kelly books, lucky girl that I am! And a friend of mine told me in the past that Laura Kinsale is amazing - thank you for reminding me of these!
I know you're asking for Regencies, but I tend to go for trite modern crap (think Nora Roberts) so I can't really give you any of that. Susan Wiggs, who is one of my favorites (I read Lakeside Cottage, a modern one, off of the share-a-book shelves on my Anguilla trip, and looooved it) also apparently does historical romances. I don't know if they're any good; I've only read her moderns.
Let us not discuss how much we have in common by now. No! It is not worth discussing! But let me tell you that romance novels are the best reaction to stress ever made.
Let us not discuss how much we have in common by now. No! It is not worth discussing!
It is not! But it never fails to crack me up.
SPEAKING of things we have in common, all day today I was thinking about Keen Eddie and how much I miss it and how sad it is that there are no further adventures. Or are there??? Only you have the answer, Fellow Jess!
Also, thank you for the recommendation - I've read contemporary stuff too (I totally heart Jennifer Crusie, have you read her stuff), and will totally check out the ones you mentioned here.
Creepy students have kept me away from the Eddie! But not for much longer. And I swear I will finish this story, or it will haunt me til the end of my days.
I picked up a Jennifer Crusie today, because I was reaching Warning: High Stress mode, and spent most of tonight rolling around on the couch, squealing. Then I remembered another book you might like, if you don't mind YA lit: Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Superb stuff, in my opinion.
Okay! Late reply, but had to say: I ADORE YA, to the point that I kind of regret going into secondary education because it makes my forays into the YA section of the bookstore awkward again. I had only recently worked through my issues and decided I would read what I wanted to, dammit, who cares what Snooty McBooksBuyer thinks in the next aisle? when I started teaching and started worrying that I'd end up in line next to one of my students, both of us clutching the latest Meg Cabot. I would fear appearing the teacher trying to be young and hip! When Lord knows I'm nothing of the kind.
All that said: Dairy Queen sounds amazing. I am definitely looking for it next time I'm in the store! If you like YA, I have to recommend Megan McCafferty's stuff if you haven't read it (her main character is named Jessica, so clearly she gets a head start in awesomeness).
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Let us not discuss how much we have in common by now. No! It is not worth discussing! But let me tell you that romance novels are the best reaction to stress ever made.
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It is not! But it never fails to crack me up.
SPEAKING of things we have in common, all day today I was thinking about Keen Eddie and how much I miss it and how sad it is that there are no further adventures. Or are there??? Only you have the answer, Fellow Jess!
Also, thank you for the recommendation - I've read contemporary stuff too (I totally heart Jennifer Crusie, have you read her stuff), and will totally check out the ones you mentioned here.
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I picked up a Jennifer Crusie today, because I was reaching Warning: High Stress mode, and spent most of tonight rolling around on the couch, squealing. Then I remembered another book you might like, if you don't mind YA lit: Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Superb stuff, in my opinion.
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All that said: Dairy Queen sounds amazing. I am definitely looking for it next time I'm in the store! If you like YA, I have to recommend Megan McCafferty's stuff if you haven't read it (her main character is named Jessica, so clearly she gets a head start in awesomeness).
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