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Handling Sin (Malone)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/handling-sin-malone
to #11. (From Wikipedia.) Book Reviews Demonstrating a spirited grasp of the genre, Malone (Dingley Falls) has written a "romance novel'' in the original sense: a long tale of chivalrous heroes and extraordinary events. This madcap book bubbles with a...
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Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/handmaids-tale-atwood
further graduate studies at Harvard University for two years but did not finish her dissertation, “The English Metaphysical Romance." She has taught at the University of British Columbia (1965), Sir George Williams University in Montreal (1967–68), the...
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lawyer in Silicon Valley, Elinor is addicted to writing lists and sorting the laundry, leaving little room for romance or even dinner with her husband. Ted wonders why she's no fun anymore and readily succumbs to Gina's seduction. Winston doesn't...
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Heart and Soul (Binchy)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/heart-and-soul-binchy
met children's author Gordon Snell, then a freelance producer with the BBC. Their friendship blossomed into a cross-border romance, with her in Ireland and him in London, until she eventually secured a job in London through the Irish Times. She and...
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mother to six-year-old Charlie—a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance—and even to some degree, friendships—believing that it is always safer not to expect too much. Although both women live in...
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Heartbreak Hotel (Siddons)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/heartbreak-hotel-siddons
the region is loving, but realistic. "It's like an old marriage or a long marriage. The commitment is absolute, but the romance has long since worn off...I want to write about it as it really is: I don't want to romanticize it." • Siddons' debut novel...
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blue, and from the title sprang the characters, and from the characters came the story." The Time Traveler's Wife, a sci-fi romance about the mercurial time traveler Henry and Clare, the wife who patiently awaits his return to the present, became a...
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Hindi-Bindi Club (Pradhan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/hindi-bindi-club-pradhan
the tale of generational America, and the diversity that makes us. Weighty stuff, but written in a witty, fun way. Romance Reviews Today The age-old intergenerational struggle between mothers and daughters gets a curried twist in Pradhan's debut, in...
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Historian (Kostova)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/historian-kostova
his future wife, enticing each to follow a trail of manuscripts and maps in search of Dracula's grave. Equal parts mystery, romance, travelog, and political primer, Kostova's debut novel won the Hopwoods Award for Novel-in-Progress. The tome took a...
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Horse Heaven (Smiley)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/horse-heaven-smiley
momentum. Fans of A Thousand Acres may feel that Smiley has deserted the realm of serious literature for suspense and romance, but this highly readable novel shows that she can perform in both genres with elan. Publishers Weekly Smiley, author of nine...
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in Santiago, Chile, then in Brussels, Belgium, and elsewhere in Europe. Returning to Chile in 1996, Allende translated romance novels (including those of Barbara Cartland) from English to Spanish but was fired for making unauthorized changes to the...
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their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain inseparable: Abigail, the actress, allegedly immune to romance, and Dara, a therapist, throwing herself into relationships with frightening intensity. Now both believe they've found "true...
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the tone throughout the novel? As Esperanza matures, does her use of simile change? 10. "Marin" Does Marin dream of sex, romance or love, or all three? What are her goals? How does Esperanza position herself vis-á-vis Marin, and what is her opinion of...
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discover the considerable pleasures of human (and animal) imperfection. Wonderful entertainment: a cockeyed romance that will have you cheering for all of these unlikely, wayward lovers. Kirkus Reviews top of page Book Club Discussion Questions 1. Why...
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In Cold Blood (Capote)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/in-cold-blood-capote
an orange is something nature has made just right. In 1943 Capote wrote his first novel, Summer Crossing about the summer romance of Fifth Avenue socialite Grady O'Neil with a parking lot attendant. Capote later claimed to have destroyed it, and it was...
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Sam Sacks of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Lipman "has long been one of our wittiest chroniclers of modern-day romance." The author was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from Simmons College in Boston where she studied...
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with more sophisticated plots, as in her title story's seriocomic disclosure of a middle-aged tour guide's self-delusive romance, or in the complexity of "Sexy," about a young American woman who's fascinated not only by her married Bengali lover but by...
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Jane Eyre (Bronte)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/jane-eyre-bronte
been as beloved by women as Jane Eyre, a Cinderella novel if ever there was one.... On its surface, Jane Eyre is a simple romance: a young girl, brought low by circumstance and maltreated by the very institutions that should have protected her (family...
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Jewel in the Crown (Scott)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/jewel-in-the-crown-scott
exploring with passionate, concentrated attention a subject still generally treated as taboo, or fit only for historical romance and adventure stories. However Scott saw things other people would sooner not see, and he looked too close for comfort. His...
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and women into lives of suffering and injustice.... Rodriguez also takes a personal plunge into the minefield of Afghan romance by marrying a man she meets there. The subplot of that tempestuous bicultural relationship is revealing, but it also has a...
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- Category: Non-Fiction