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Before I begin, thanks Susan for your 5 tells - they're hilarious!
Now, when it comes to our favorite literature is it possible to ever read too much of it? What are some of the tells of overindulgence in romance? Let's take a look!
You Know You Read Too Much Romance When...
- Most of your email is author newsletters telling you about latest releases, contests, and book signings.
- You insist on bringing a chaperone on romantic dates; even though you're 25 years old.
- You own a digital copy of every print romance book on your favorite’s shelf.
- Your favorite’s shelf is now the entire bookcase and the area in front of it on the floor.
- You have a plot trope, character type, or preference you are too embarrassed to share with other romance readers.
- Your bookshelves are classified first by subgenre, then by author.
- After kissing each other breathless, you accidentally say, "Please Lord Mark take me now to your bedchamber."
- He says, "I know-I know you can't spend the night with me because your aunt Lady Marie will start the rumor-mill."
- Your fictional boyfriend is Mr. Darcy, Mr. Thornton, or another romantic alpha hero.
- You once had to question where the hymen was located, because most romance novels have the hero penetrate it somewhere inside the vagina instead of at the opening.
- You clip the covers off your romances and make a mantitty wallpaper collage.
- The name Vladimir de Laaf, the Duke of Longwood, sounds like a valid name for a man and Lady Saramia, the Widow of Evesham, makes for an equally good heroine name.
- In your mind, being unwed and over twenty is a crime.
- When making love-you find yourself moaning, "Oh yes, all the way to the hilt!"
- You’re actually disappointed he showed up in his Lexus....where's the black stallion?
- You own or are following every romance blog you encounter or have written blog posts for them.
- If the first thing you can find in your purse is your latest romance read.
- You’ve attended more than five romance conventions just because. Jane Austen and Regency period conventions count, even if they aren't about books at all, because the subgenres are prominent.
- You can spot a secret baby within a 100 yards.
- If you ever daydreamed about being a heroine in one.
Bonus 21: If you’re like me than you’ve come to the conclusion, there’s never too romance in your life!
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Originally posted 2009-06-18 03:45:38. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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. It was the first book that I remember being swept away. I was on that island. It was me there trying to befriend that magnificent creature. It was magic! I remember Heidi, 
by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and C.S. Lewis’s 
having the same effect.
Many books and movies left me completely satisfied, all my question answered and nothing left to ask, but sometimes I would finish a book or movie and be unsatisfied, thinking what if? What if a certain character had done something different? Why did my favourite character disappear? What if he or she had been in charge? What if…what if…what if? I’d retell the story my way, to make it satisfying for me. After a while I started telling my own stories, with all the elements I had grown to enjoy.
and more particularly my latest novel, 
, in stores September 1!).
by John Krakauer is one of my all time favourite books) and romance.
I had a love of reading, history, adventure and romance; I even lived a few adventures of my own, and then I had the opportunity to take some time from work. I played on the computer at first (I love MMORPG’s), I read, I went for hikes, I had a great time, and I realized that my job was getting in the way of my life and I didn’t want to go back. My beautiful daughter gave me a leather bound journal for my birthday. In it she wrote “Whatever journey you choose to embark on in the coming years, here is a place to recount it” and it all came back to what if. There was a story that had played in my head for a couple of years and I thought what if I write it down? What if I tell a story?
