Happy Valentine's Day

[jmc_bks]

Or, as The Biochemist put it in her email to me this morning, Happy Love Stinks Day!

Earlier this week the Post published a list of reader recommended romance, the result of their earlier query.  Some of their book summaries are a bit snide, but I'm impressed with the size of the list and its variety.

Comments

[riley-merrick.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised genre romance made the list at all, given the general snottiness of newspaper book sections.

Some of the choices surprised me. For instance, I would never have chosen Ashes in the Wind as the best Woodiwiss to recommend...Come Love a Stranger and A Rose in Winter were far better.

Pleased to see WTT from Crusie on the list.

The Byatt? A snooze-fest, IMO. But then again, it's probably what literary snobs consider romance.

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I think if the Book Section writer had been asked to make the list, no genre romance would've appeared. But a few weeks ago on the book blog, they solicited reader suggestions. Although the didn't publish all of the suggestions, they took a good chunk of them.

Possession? Eh. The book bored me even more than the movie did.

[(Anonymous)]

That's actually a really good list. So surprising. It's got The Blue Castle AND Desiree. Plus a Carla Kelly! Nice. I wonder how they came up with the little book summary. Sounds like most of them come from cover copy, not from someone who's read the book.

-Jennie