... , but I don't really enjoy the genre, per se. Mostly Agatha Christie and the like. However, I might have to check out more of Ms. James' novels, especially since her descriptions, attention to detail and characterizations are riveting. Here, the "romantic" part of this thriller was the landscape, which reminded me of Tintern Abbey or something ...

... and exciting vacation adventures in exotic locations. Exotic for me included anything with a romantic-sounding name. Hence, their trip to "Mexico" was not as exciting as their one to "Lighthouse Point" which ... that I doubt I could have put my finger on at the time.Having read several of these novels while rained in last weekend, I am sure I know now what fascinated me. Even at that early age, it was ...

... (Chabon was just out of college when MOP was published) and the attention he has gotten for his later novels are some finely wrought stories collected in A Model ... carved out a niche for himself, writing elegant, quiet novels about writers and the writing life.  His prose ... young philosophy student who will eventually become famous as the Romantic poet Novalis.  It's about a brilliant young ...

... for your average editor.Wait, I just thought of a biggie--Welcome to Temptation by Jenny Crusie, where the hero is a small town mayor and that is integral to the plot, especially when the heroine comes to his small town to film a soft-core "adult" film. Who else can get away with writing politicians? If you can think of any, let me know. And do you find them appealing in romance novels?

... Phillips come to mind. I had fallen in love with romance . . . in danger. To me, romantic thrillers were the best of both worlds. Two people who both come together because of evil, and are almost torn apart by ... ) and actually finish one of the over 100 novels I'd begun, I didn't even question what I would write. Though I was told by more than one person that the romantic suspense market was "dead" ...

... ," he says. "It?s visceral and predatory and unapologetically sexual. And it?s unapologetically romantic in the sense of an old-fashioned romance novel."The centuries-old vampire metaphor is "also about the ... one gets used to it," she teases.Although Ball says his series "is true to the spirit of the novels," there are differences. "True Blood" takes the powerful and ruthless nature of vampire clans ...