Level 3 Reading Assignments

[Ruby]

Thanks, Ruby. I guess I've never read a Romance - not even Austin, the Brontes, or Heyer. I certainly had no idea that they were always written from the female's POV, or that they were concerned with just two principal characters.

You've never read a romance?!
I'm not surprised.
I tried to get my husband to read one once.
The book had army commandos, a heroine in distress,
lot and lots of "will he like me if...", "will she like me if...", "I'm no good for her because..." etc.

The man who watches chick flicks with me, couldn't ever get into all the angst. After reading a third of the book he put it down and I let him off the hook. They aren't for everyone.

I just assumed that female writers would naturally write romantic stories just as men might write stories about deeds of derring-do. Ah well. One lives and learns, as they say.

Is there a section of this course that studies literary forms?

TYWD

Hmmmm.... Unless Mad Lews is covering this in level four, I'd say not. However, that could be something to discuss if enough people were interested in it.

Ruby


PS

Gotta love wikipedia. They have a fantastic page
about romance novels and what classifies them as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_novel