Romances

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.

Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net 2008

Now they should round up all the Harlequin Romances and burn them too (I can help with that).

Mugshot Of The Week 2008

We don't talk about Harlequin Romances or artists who paint by number.

April 2006 2006

We don't talk about Harlequin Romances or artists who paint by number.

Why are you afraid of process? 2006

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.

Some more "What you're reading" responses M-mv 2004

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.

Alphabets and Goddesses: The Conclusion « So Many Books 2004

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.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

But I also read the typical Judy Bloom, Harlequin Romances, and Ramona the Pest.

Formative Fantasy: Ariel « 2009

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.

Something to Celebrate « So Many Books 2004

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.

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730