Miranda's Musings for September: Reading Romance and What Else?

 So, You Read Romance, and...?

Hello my fellow readers, and welcome to Spring!

Father's Day here in Oz is over, but the advertising was astonishing. Both my snail mail letterbox and email in-box were filled with delicious book lists for the Dads in your life. I love these! I could sit and happily read book lists and troll bookshops and booky sites for hours. (Actually, I think I sometimes do.) Naturally these 'Dad' lists had some hearty crime and thriller fiction, and heaps of non-fiction about planes, trains and automobiles. And sport. Don't forget sport. And politician biographies. Everything Dad-worthy, but quite a few of them also appealed to me.

...Which got me thinking. This blog is primarily for romance writers and readers, yay! But we don't only read romance, do we? What else do you read?



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In the last month I've read and reread Anne Gracie's wonderful Chance Sisters quartet, finishing with The Summer Bride, a simple scrumptious end to a fabulous series. So romantic, so addictive. I loved revisiting these magic books, and feel a bit sad there are no more sisters to come. But I'm sure Anne is whipping up something equally divine for next year.



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But I also read a couple of English comic novels: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (well, not all comic, but some parts were fabulously funny). Also Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse, which was marvellously comic.  And both books, believe it or not, featured characters pursuing romantic relationships - love - and all the goings on associated with same. Perhaps another sort of romance? They were both deeply satisfying to read.

Then I read Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, for a Classics book Group. I've read it before, and it was even better second time around: a mix of Scottish politics, boy's own adventure, and a coming-of-age tale. (No romance in this one, though there was a certain wench in a tavern late in the book...?)

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I loved them all, and read across many genres. But I always come back to romance. It's my go-to genre, my favourite; it takes me to my happy place with life-affirming, happy-ever-after endings, heroes and heroines who are simply amazing, and a romance like no other. Romance is simply The Best, and I will always enjoy it in-between my classics, my chick lit, my bios, my cosy crimes, my best sellers, my thrillers, my 'women's lit', my inspirationals, my non-fiction, my everything. 

My next romance is waiting for me on my Kindle: Meet Me At The Teahouse by the wonderful Barbara Hannay. (It's free at the moment; go grab a bargain!) Then I have Barbara's newie The Grazier's Wife ready to roll. Bliss...

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When you're not reading romance, what do you like to read? And do you always come back to romance?

 

Love, Miranda xxx

 

Love to love:

Reading a romance, between every! other! book!

Love to laugh:

...at the show Gogglebox on TV. Those people have me in stitches, week after week.

Love to learn:

About books, booky things, book sites, authors, general book stuff. Keeps me entertained for hours!