https://reginakammer.com/personal-reflection-on-beauty-reading-and-writing/ Provocative historical romance and contemporary romance with a touch of history Sun, 12 Jan 2020 08:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://reginakammer.com/personal-reflection-on-beauty-reading-and-writing/#comment-48498 Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:27:35 +0000 http://reginakammer.com/?p=542#comment-48498 […] Back in the day, romance novels mostly dealt with the idea of first love, that intense Romeo and Juliet passion that gripped a couple with such fervor they would do anything for each other. It’s great to read such novels that transport one back to teenaged or college days (although Regency heroes all seem to be about thirty-five, at which age they realize they must end their rakish ways). But we readers get older and sometimes it’s difficult to feel empathy toward a heroine whose biggest worry is what to wear to the ball or ohmygod is anyone going to ask me to dance because I’m so ugly when anyone over the age of forty knows that all eighteen-year-olds are beautiful. Every single damn one of them. […]

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