Finally made myself finish reading True Colors by Karen Surtees and Nann Dunne. I kind of wish I had three days of my life back. No offense to Ms. Surtees and Ms. Dunne, but... they are no Blayne Cooper and T. Novan. Every romantic novel is going to be mediocre to me after reading the leader of all romance novels, Madam President. I refuse to go near Radclyffe's writing again. I think reading four Radclyffe novels gives me a justified reason to say, it's simply not for me. The plots are exactly the same, dialogue is so-so, and there is no reason to have explicit love scenes spread out four pages. There might as well be a label on the back of the book that says, "Make sure you have a big glass of ice water to pour over your head while reading."
I'm probably going straight to hell for all this book bashing.
I will say, that Love's Melody Lost was a GREAT book. I wish I had another LML or MP to read right now. Still need to finish The Bell Jar too. There is lots of reading on the agenda. I should write my own lesbian romance book. I've had to have read at least 35 of them. That's plenty of research for my own unique version of how *bursts into song* "When a (wo)maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan loves a woman."
Yeah... I probably shouldn't write journal entries past midnight anymore.
Top 5 BEST lesbian romance books of all time, IMO:
Madam President, First Lady, The Road to Glory, Love's Melody Lost, and Cobb Island
That's my list, and I'm sticking to it! Until I read something better. I'm not really sure how this whole entry got fixated on my favorite reads, but I guess that is the wonder of the blog. To that, I shall end this entry with one of my favorite pages from Rilke's "Letters to Young Poet" :
"It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed. It is shyness before any sort of new and unforseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope, but only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive."
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I love reading there is this book called RX, you should ceck it out! :)
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