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Defining the Genre: Highlander Romance

by Keira 04.07.2011

What is highlander romance? Highlander romance is a subgenre of historical romance. Not to be confused with the show, highlander romance is all about those sexy warrior men. The setting for these romances usually takes place in Scotland or Wales. You may be familiar with the 2008 movie Made of Honor; it was a movie [...]

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First Love – A Love for Life?

by Guest Blogger 04.07.2011

by Margaret James, guest blogger and author of The Silver Locket and The Golden Chain Thank you for inviting me to be a guest blogger on Love Romance Passion. I’m delighted to be here. What’s great about writing romance is that there’s so much scope for trying out something new. Over the years, I’ve written [...]

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Romantic Classics and Why I Prefer Them in Film

by Keira 11.16.2010

Much of my contact with romantic classics was in high school. It seems odd as a lover of romance novels to prefer most of them in film over the book. In part, I blame forced reading in classes. As Orson Scott Card says, “No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.” To date I’ve [...]

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Movie Review: Titanic with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio

by Keira 11.04.2010

Titanic is one of the highest grossing films in romance. Romeo and Juliet were not as star-crossed as Rose and Jack. Interesting how both couples names start with R and J. Before you ask, Rose and Jack are a fictional couple not based on historical accounts. A J. Dawson did exist but he was a [...]

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The 10 Greatest Romance Novel Heroes of All Time

by Keira 08.15.2010

Not to be confused with your personal favorites, these ten romance heroes, every girl and woman knows. You may not have read their stories yet, but you have heard about them. In this short video I count down from hero #10 all the way back to the greatest romance hero of all time, the one [...]

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Review: Sexiest Man Alive by Diana Holquist

by Keira 01.31.2010

I picked this up from the library because it was recommended in the AAR forums as a book about heroines who have low self-confidence. The heroine in Sexiest Man Alive has panic attacks around men, especially good looking men. On the whole it’s a semi-cute read, but it’s very campy in a bad way, like [...]