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Stilted prose and over-worked descriptive euphemisms tend to turn me off to a book rather quickly, and a needy protagonist that needs saving every five minutes is better left to the Harlequin Romances I pick up for my mom at the swap meet.
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Now they should round up all the Harlequin Romances and burn them too (I can help with that).
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We don't talk about Harlequin Romances or artists who paint by number.
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We don't talk about Harlequin Romances or artists who paint by number.
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In the past, this (what my husband lovingly refers to as Christian Harlequin Romances) would be the meat and potatoes instead of just an occasional snack.
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There better not be a next time though or I will have to punish you by making you read a box full of Harlequin Romances or something.
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Jan.) "with the French bookselling house to receive, by monthly payments of £40, the sum of £440 for the right to translate all my books: that is, what they call my Romances, and what I call my Stories.
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But I also read the typical Judy Bloom, Harlequin Romances, and Ramona the Pest.
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I found it a little shocking at the time but over all I didn’t think it any more explicit than the Harlequin Romances my Mom would leave laying around and through which I would look for the “good parts” when no one was paying attention.
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Such are those voluminous works, commonly called Romances, namely Clelia, Cleopatra, Astræa, Cassandra, the Grand Cyrus, and innumerable others which contain, as I apprehend, very little instruction or entertainment.
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