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Tales of Goon Love: "Microwave stepped out, won't you come in?"
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Nov 27, 2019 07:14
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Nov 27, 2019 07:28
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Nov 27, 2019 07:42
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Nov 27, 2019 07:43
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Nov 27, 2019 15:41
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Jolo posted:I think I went too subtle on this one. It's part of the "Pumpkin Pilferers" series. I remember when they announced the movie adaption of Pumpkin Pilfers. I was super disappointing when they hosed it up and completely changed the premise of the Originals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5mI407Uks4
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Nov 27, 2019 16:10
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 I didn't change the title.
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Nov 27, 2019 18:14
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Zarin posted:There is, uh, a . . . disturbing amount of murder afoot in those "romance" novels. They're romantic suspense, a popular sub-genre of romance. Romance can cross over into any genre, the central conflict just needs to be "will these two attractive people get together" and the answer has to be "yes." I prefer historical romances, which are basically for people who like the works of Jane Austen but wish Lizzie and Darcy would bone. Has anybody posted this real one yet?  Here's a famous review of it, which is sadly more entertaining than the book.
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Nov 27, 2019 18:23
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One more:
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Nov 27, 2019 19:00
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Also, my wife and I stumbled across this one in a truck stop diner's free book section and were enthralled by the title's possibilities. Is the baby a secret? Does the baby secretly boot-scoot? Is there a terrible secret involving boot-scootin' here somewhere?
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Nov 27, 2019 20:14
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Oh man, secret babies there's a lot of secret babies in Romanceland
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Nov 27, 2019 20:29
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Just saw this on twitter and wellp
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Nov 27, 2019 22:57
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Lodin posted:Just saw this on twitter and wellp Ricky Gervais noooo
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Nov 27, 2019 23:42
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Lodin posted:Just saw this on twitter and wellp My dad got me a copy with that cover when I was a kid. Needless to say, I never read it because Bilbo looked like a total dork.
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Nov 28, 2019 00:38
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Nov 28, 2019 00:59
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Wish I'd grown up with this version of the cover, not the dorky original (unedited) one.
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Nov 28, 2019 01:08
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Lodin posted:Just saw this on twitter and wellp "Starring Paul Sorvino as Bilbo"
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Nov 28, 2019 04:44
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Pththya-lyi posted:They're romantic suspense, a popular sub-genre of romance. Romance can cross over into any genre, the central conflict just needs to be "will these two attractive people get together" and the answer has to be "yes." I prefer historical romances, which are basically for people who like the works of Jane Austen but wish Lizzie and Darcy would bone. That was pretty much the whole deal with a lot of people being all mad about Twilight. I mean, it was bad as a story and as an unhealthy misogynistic relationship and for whatever other reasons sure, but all in ways that are bog-standard for romance as a genre. It was just harder for a lot of people to ignore since they were really popular and crossed into the vampire/supernatural genre that horror fans and other nerdy types felt that they "owned." gloom posted:Wish I'd grown up with this cover, not the dorky original one. I grew up with this cover! I even found a copy in a used bookstore out of nostalgia. But the corresponding Two Towers cover is just way too easy for romance edits. 
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Nov 28, 2019 06:01
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There are 18 books in the Pregnant Amish Widows series.
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Nov 28, 2019 07:32
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nashona posted:There are 18 books in the Pregnant Amish Widows series. I feel like quonset huts are too technologically advanced for the Amish. Certainly takes a bit of the je ne sais quoi out of the whole "barnraising" thing. Then again, I actually don't know a drat thing about the Amish, so maybe this whole post is in really poor taste and I should re-evaluate my life.
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Nov 28, 2019 07:39
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Zarin posted:I feel like quonset huts are too technologically advanced for the Amish. Certainly takes a bit of the je ne sais quoi out of the whole "barnraising" thing. Quite a few of them have greenhouses made of plastics while still rocking the horse and buggy.
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Nov 28, 2019 07:47
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Nov 28, 2019 08:40
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Having read the GBS thread, I'm pretty sure we're calling her "Tinytax" for reasons. Not sure if we named the other kids, though, so it seems kinda awkward overall.
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Nov 28, 2019 09:04
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Pththya-lyi posted:They're romantic suspense, a popular sub-genre of romance. Romance can cross over into any genre, the central conflict just needs to be "will these two attractive people get together" and the answer has to be "yes." I prefer historical romances, which are basically for people who like the works of Jane Austen but wish Lizzie and Darcy would bone. Isn't there a whole subgenre of men protecting women who are unexpectedly / unknowingly / suddenly pregnant? I recall more examples being discussed the last time Pregnesia came up. And it's intriguing that the central trope is a men protecting a baby that isn't his. Ties into a cuckold fetish? But then the authors are mainly women.
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Nov 28, 2019 10:15
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nashona posted:There are 18 books in the Pregnant Amish Widows series. nashona posted:There are 18 books in the Pregnant Amish Widows series. nashona posted:There are 18 books in the Pregnant Amish Widows series.
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Nov 28, 2019 11:41
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nonathlon posted:Isn't there a whole subgenre of men protecting women who are unexpectedly / unknowingly / suddenly pregnant? I recall more examples being discussed the last time Pregnesia came up. To me Ive always interpreted it as a sort of pure love that the readers aren't getting or dream of. A man who cares for you unconditionally despite any past behavior. The women in these books are in peril and reliant on the male protector to save them and their child not actively making men cuckolds. Its why the "my partner is a good husband" genre of harlequin romance are the saddest to me.
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Nov 28, 2019 11:46
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Just LOL if you aren't already deeply enmeshed in the PregAmWidian fandom.
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Nov 28, 2019 11:48
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You know I forgot to bring this up but a few years ago there was a scandal where one of these romance authors was caught plagiarizing passages from peoples dissertations on things like north american weasel species and genuinely I wondered given the number of dissertations if someone has sneakily inserted random smutty paragraphs from romance novels into their dissertation on native american pottery techniques
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Nov 28, 2019 11:52
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Barudak posted:You know I forgot to bring this up but a few years ago there was a scandal where one of these romance authors Hahaha, what? "I need a huge pop of realism in my 'The Park Ranger's pregnant game warden' series... Eh, nobody's going to read this 452 page dissertation on the ecosystem of the least weasels." In the first sentence there, I thought you were going to bring up the fact a romance author was caught reusing parts of previous books, because one came out with a couple sentences that didn't make sense. "What dreadful felixing!" "If they became infelixate," the author had done a find and replace to change a character's name from Tim to Felix, and it didn't get proofread too well I'm a bit hazy on the details, I just remember that from an old thread.
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Nov 28, 2019 12:23
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Barudak posted:To me Ive always interpreted it as a sort of pure love that the readers aren't getting or dream of. A man who cares for you unconditionally despite any past behavior. The women in these books are in peril and reliant on the male protector to save them and their child not actively making men cuckolds. It's this. Also, if the hero is not the baby's daddy, the baby daddy is either dead or a piece of poo poo, so the heroine isn't "guilty" when she attaches herself to the hero. Barudak posted:You know I forgot to bring this up but a few years ago there was a scandal where one of these romance authors That was Cassie Edwards, who wrote a long series of terrible stereotype "Indian" romances. A romance novel blogger gave one of Edward's books to a friend as an example of a "bad" book, and the friend noticed that the passages about nature stuff were in a different style. She Googled the passages and the rest was history. Here's a whole series of blog posts about the controversy, if you're ready for a deep dive.
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Nov 28, 2019 16:07
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Nov 28, 2019 19:28
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Amish romance is a huge genre, and a big seller with conservative Christians of all sorts. WinCo, a Mormon-owned grocery chain, sells them at their checkout lines.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:13
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FactsAreUseless posted:Amish romance is a huge genre, and a big seller with conservative Christians of all sorts. WinCo, a Mormon-owned grocery chain, sells them at their checkout lines. What? WinCo is employee-owned. They make kind of a big deal out of that. https://www.wincofoods.com/about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinCo_Foods I don't recall ever seeing romance novels at checkout, but then again I'm not really the target audience.
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Nov 28, 2019 23:06
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CaptainSarcastic posted:What? WinCo is employee-owned. They make kind of a big deal out of that.
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Nov 28, 2019 23:15
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FactsAreUseless posted:This thread's dying down a bit, so I'm going to share some photos of Harlequin romances I've taken at thrift stores lately. I'm leaving them in their full hi-res for ease of editing, so expect these to be huge if you click: Tabletposting, so pretend I badly MSPainted a cover of babies doing the fusion dance.
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Nov 29, 2019 01:33
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FactsAreUseless posted:Amish romance is a huge genre, and a big seller with conservative Christians of all sorts. WinCo, a Mormon-owned grocery chain, sells them at their checkout lines. They're mostly written and read by evangelicals, and a lot of Amish people don't like them because the writers get all kinds of things wrong. No, people don't die in buggy accidents.
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Nov 29, 2019 04:32
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Pththya-lyi posted:They're mostly written and read by evangelicals, and a lot of Amish people don't like them because the writers get all kinds of things wrong. No, people don't die in buggy accidents.
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Nov 29, 2019 04:41
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Margaret stared at the luddite's overalls, "Good Lord, are you raising a barn or just glad to see me?"
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Nov 29, 2019 05:24
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Went briefly looking for thread material while out Xmas shopping... I suppose they all classify as touchy-feely books under one definition or another...
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