Showing posts with label critique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label critique. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

Inferiority Complexes, Romance Novels, and Critics

First and foremost:

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Woopsies.... Yeah. Sorry about that, folks. Got swamped suddenly.

So let me apologize right quick!






Moving on to the main event:

There's been a lot of discussion, lately, about reading romance novels. The words "ashamed" and "embarrassed" have been bandied about quite a bit.

So I felt it was time to speak up, both as a reader, myself, and as an aspiring author.

Please allow me to dissuade you, my dear reader, from any particular disillusionment to the contrary: I am not ashamed that I read romance.

Read that as: "I am not ashamed that I read a book that has graphic sex scenes and whose sole purpose is a relationship of some sort."

Pundits of the "You read WHA'?" camp can be generally (albeit somewhat vaguely) separated into two camps: