Reading Romance in 2017: Happily Ever Afters as Resistance and Respite -- A Smugglivus Post by Not Now, I'm Reading's Kay Taylor Rea
Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Our next Smugglivus guest is Kay Taylor Rea, the other excellent half of the reading & fandom podcast Not Now, I’m Reading! Reading Romance in 2017: Happily Ever Afters as Resistance and Respite I recently got into an argument with an old school friend about romance novels. As my fellow romance readers know, people who don’t read the genre often have a very skewed view of what our favorite books are actually like. In this case, my friend tried the (well-worn, dull, and false) argument that all romance novels are boring/the same/formulaic because of one simple thing: the reader already knows that they all end with a happily ever after. I’ll ignore the fact that knowing everything will work out somehow does not negate the journey to the story’s completion. (I rarely see anyone argue that I shouldn’t be reading mysteries because I know the book will end with the mystery being solved.) I’ll ignore the fact that thinking romance novels are simple or […]
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