It's odd isn't it how often (not here) it gets looked down on, reading is reading, and we all pick the books we enjoy, and all books, whatever genre, have an author behind them who leave a piece of themselves in every novel they write and each one is valid in its own right. You read what you love to read and enjoy doing it! Every book is as valid as the next one.Me again
I stayed up to finish the Milly Johnson book and when I got to the end of the book there was the reason for the dedication by the author at the beginning of the thread, as mentioned in my previous message above.
So I'm posting it here as it rings so true for me. I found books and the library again due to the pandemic, and have also struggled to find a book group that didn't look down on romantic fiction until I found a home in this Tattle forum.
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It's definitely my least favourite of hers
It just shows how different people's tastes are as I gave this 5 stars when I read it. Yet some books leave me cold when everyone else raves about them.
Definitely! This is why I love books, the conversations that comes from differing opinions are great
Is this normal?!I liked The Wake Up Call, but I get what you mean. I did find the whole premise of the story just a bit too much and a bit too far fetched etc.
I think ‘Read for Pleasure and Sod the Snobs’ should be our forum motto, or a thread title (although we don’t really have them)Me again
I stayed up to finish the Milly Johnson book and when I got to the end of the book there was the reason for the dedication by the author at the beginning of the thread, as mentioned in my previous message above.
So I'm posting it here as it rings so true for me. I found books and the library again due to the pandemic, and have also struggled to find a book group that didn't look down on romantic fiction until I found a home in this Tattle forum.
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Gosh you did well,I thought it was like reading through treacle, managed to finish it by not letting myself read anything else until I had read 30 pages of it a day. Am I right in remembering the ending being it’s implied they just sail up and down on the cholera boat forever?
i literally just finished this book (ngl i think she would have hugely benefitted from aging the lead character up at least ten years, she was not a believable 35 year old at all) and this stuck with me too!Me again
I stayed up to finish the Milly Johnson book and when I got to the end of the book there was the reason for the dedication by the author at the beginning of the thread, as mentioned in my previous message above.
So I'm posting it here as it rings so true for me. I found books and the library again due to the pandemic, and have also struggled to find a book group that didn't look down on romantic fiction until I found a home in this Tattle forum.
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) but it should be, and deserves to be, taken seriously. like milly j says there, romance must be the most purchased genre of books (there are whole subsections of it) and it never really gets the full credit it deserves.Aha I’m looking through the reviews right now and seeing similar opinions to yours. When I consider the plot I fully think a lot of my enjoyment probably came from the writing itself than the story
I read that recently and seems I only gave it 3.5 stars.
So very well put. I've just started reading a book about Georgette Heyer and her books suffered from critical snobbery. Her name tended to provoke an uninformed, unjustified sneer.
I love Milly. Not my kind of genre TBF but i have read and enjoyed a couple of her books. Had the pleasure of meeting her at an afternoon tea with authors session our boroughs libraries did a few years back. Ended up having a lovely chat with her about Paris and The Cure of all things...Me again
I stayed up to finish the Milly Johnson book and when I got to the end of the book there was the reason for the dedication by the author at the beginning of the thread, as mentioned in my previous message above.
So I'm posting it here as it rings so true for me. I found books and the library again due to the pandemic, and have also struggled to find a book group that didn't look down on romantic fiction until I found a home in this Tattle forum.
Oh awesome, I've been looking for new podcast recommendations!
Thank you for your kind words.
you'd have to show me the pic you mean.. as far as I can recall she was just a normal looking lady with a bob.. I think her book at the time was something around Sunflowers or Paris.. it was many yrs agoThank you for your kind words.
Did she look like Tina Turner's sister, as that came to mind when Iooking at her picture in the back of the book?
