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Romance Issues: Sparkling jewels & glistening portals!

October 23, 2009

So many romance books appear to be obsessed with eyes.  Every major character in romance books has some kind of extraordinary eye color, whether it’s vivacious aquamarine, smoky whiskey, cool ice gray, startling emerald, or unreadable obsidian. I’m so sensitized to this facet of romance lingo that I start to laugh every time I read [...]

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I’ve been poisoning my mind

October 6, 2009

Don’t ask me how I got into it, but I spent far too long last night reading about Evolutionary Psychology, and thus, “Men” and “Women.” What I really hate about reading any of the psychological models dealing with love, sex, and issues associated with those is how they make me feel about the males of [...]

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More Romance Issues: “Primal Urge”

September 29, 2009

I was always aware that certain writers had favorite words and phrases they used throughout their books; that doesn’t bother me.  But I’ve been having a speed-read marathon of popular romance selections, both past and present, and there seems to be a collective “romance voice” with romance lingo. There are many stock phrases recirculated within [...]

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