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December 2021 nominations (Romance)
The book club has gone into hibernation, I'll try to wake it up for December, with a genre I like which I haven't seen much of in book clubs here: Romance. If anyone else want to do the planned genre as well, they are free to do so, of course.
Each poster can nominate up to three books, and can support as many nominations as they want. A book needs one supporting voice to get to the vote. I'm planning to start the vote some time on Sunday 21.November (unless real life gets in the way, if so it may be later), and will keep the vote up for a week or so. If there's a tie I'll roll a die. There's no expectation to read the chosen book if you don't like the final pick. --- We're using the industry standard to define romance: A story with a central romance and a happy ever after or happy for now ending. (In other words, "Romeo and Juliet" doesn't fit this definition.) This doesn't mean that people should only recommend books where they've read the ending. We should be able to trust that books marketed as romance are what they say. But please don't nominate books where you know there's no happy ending. More about this: Do Not Mess with the Happy Ever After: defining the romance novel |
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Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson (2019) (hildea) The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan (2020) (hildea) The Beast by J.R. Ward (2016) (booklover6) A Little Village Blend by Nathan Burgoine (2021) (hildea) Seconded (and off to vote): Venetia by Georgette Heyer (1958) (pdurrant, issybird) Night Game by Christine Feehan (2005) (booklover6, hildea) Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart (1959) (issybird, catlady) Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt (1960) (Catlady, issybird) Lost Island by Phyllis A. Whitney (1970) (Catlady, issybird) The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (2000) (John F, hildea) The Red Cockade by Stanley Weyman (1895) (issybird, John F)) Last edited by hildea; 11-20-2021 at 05:34 PM. |
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I nominate Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson
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I nominate The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan.
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Since it's the next book in my read-through of Heyer's romances, I nominate Venetia:
"Venetia features a remarkably independent heroine who falls deeply in love with the wrong man. Venetia Lanyon lives a quiet life until she meets her notorious neighbor Jasper, Lord Damerel, who would marry her in a heartbeat if he didn't think it would ruin her. Then she discovers a shocking family secret that changes everything... " |
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My nominations, which are next to read for me in these series, but I've been putting off all year:
The Beast by J.R. Ward Night Game by Christine Feehan Removing my nomination for Shadow's Seduction by Kresley Cole. I didn't realize it's a novella, nor did I realize it ends on a kind of cliff hanger for a book that hasn't been written yet and may never be. Last edited by booklover6; 11-17-2021 at 07:25 AM. |
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I second Venetia.
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I'll nominate The Duke and I by Julia Quinn.
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You've watched Bridgerton on Netflix, now read the book! Available at libraries everywhere (except where it isn't). |
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Hildea, thanks for resurrecting the Book Club. This month's category is not my cup of tea, so I'll not participate this month, but thanks.
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![]() I think it makes sense to have this as a distributed effort: Anyone who wants to can take up the flag when they feel like it, choose the next genre or theme, and start nominations and voting however they want. |
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I may do that. Historical fiction is my favorite Genre and I've been waiting for tht one to come up.
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Since romance is dominated by women I wanted my third nomination to be a book written by a man. I've been waffling between Alexis Hall and Nathan Burgoine a while, but I guess I'll just have to make a choice.
I nominate the novella A Little Village Blend by Nathan Burgoine. Quote:
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I second Night Game.
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The Red Cockade by Stanley Weyman. A romance set during the French Revolution, it was published in 1895. Obviously free to download. And among the books I loved when I was a young adolescent were the gothic novels of Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt. I haven’t read any of them since and I wonder what I’d think now. So I’ll nominate one of my favorites: Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart. It’s set among crumbling French aristocrats and the heroine is an English governess. And speaking of Anthony Hope, there’s a slight irony in that his greatest novel and one of the greatest romance novels of all time, The Prisoner of Zelda, also the work on which KJ Charles based her delightful The Henchmen of Zenda, would not qualify as a romance under the rule she set out! |
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I second Mary Stewart's Nine Coaches Waiting. I had been thinking of nominating Airs Above the Ground or The Ivy Tree, but instead of another Stewart novel, I'll nominate Victoria Holt's Mistress of Mellyn.
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And because I can't possibly leave out the third of the big three, I also nominate Lost Island by Phyllis A. Whitney. Quote:
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