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EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE I LEARNED FROM ROMANCE NOVELS

Everything I Know About Love I Learned From Romance Novels, October 2011
by Sarah Wendell

Sourcebooks Casablanca
256 pages
ISBN: 1402254490
EAN: 9781402254499
Kindle: B005EU5100
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"A humorous look into how modern romance novels are more the "bodice rippers" of the past."

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EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE I LEARNED FROM ROMANCE NOVELS
Sarah Wendell

Reviewed by Gabrielle Lee
Posted January 21, 2012

Self-Help | Non-Fiction

As a frequent Romance reader I figured this book would be a fun read and I am glad that I guessed right. EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE I LEARNED FROM ROMANCE NOVELS is a fast and easy read that delves into many different subjects about love and relationships. Many readers may recognize the author from her romance blog but whether you do or not this book is an interesting read. I would not use it as a guide but more of an enlightening read that uses humor and down to Earth ideas and thoughts to help readers explore many topics.

I enjoyed the fact that women can now have another reason to enjoy their romance books. The stories nowadays are nothing like the ones our mothers read and this book shows us just how much they have changed for the better. I never thought to compare some of the points brought up in this book and found it interesting to think on many of those points and how they affected me or even women in general. I enjoyed all the remarks in this book by both readers and writers. There are so many lessons and questions that I never thought to link to the books that I read. At times this book makes you laugh out loud and at other times this book actually makes you think about your relationships.

EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE I LEARNED FROM ROMANCE NOVELS is a fast paced and enjoyable read. It was nice to see a book that builds woman up not tear them down because of what they read. The author does a nice job of showing that it is more than okay to read romances and to be proud of it. Seeing how much books effect and intertwine in our lives was an intriguing read. I enjoyed comparing many of the ideas in this book with my own and came away with a few new ones as well.

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SUMMARY

Take a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them alone and possibly without key pieces of clothing, and what do you have? A romance novel. What else? Enough lessons about life, love, and everything in between to help you with your own happily-ever-after. Lessons like... Romance means believing you are worthy of a happy ending Learning to tell the prince from the frog Real-life romance is still alive and kicking No matter how bad it is, at least you haven't been kidnapped by a Scottish duke (probably) Straight from the heart of influential romance blogger Sarah Wendell, this inventive gift book provides the best wisdom about love that the romance genre has to offer. Laced with signature witty commentary and peppered with thoughts from bestselling romance authors (Nora Roberts, Jennifer Crusie, Debbie Macomber, Eloisa James, Robyn Carr, and lots more) and avid readers, these pages will reveal what every romance reader already knows: while romances are certainly steamy, they have more to offer than just a sexy hero. In fact, they might have more to say about love than we give them credit for.

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