Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels
by:
Sarah Wendell (author)
Take a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them alone and possibly without key pieces of clothing, and what do you have? A romance novel. What...
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Take a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them alone and possibly without key pieces of clothing, and what do you have? A romance novel. What else? Enough lessons about life, love, and everything in between to help you with your own happily-ever-after. Lessons like... •Romance means believing you are worthy of a happy ending •Learning to tell the prince from the frog •Real-life romance is still alive and kicking •No matter how bad it is, at least you haven't been kidnapped by a Scottish duke (probably) Sarah Wendell is cofounder of one of the top romance blogs, SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781402254499 (1402254490)
ASIN: B007MXCEEI
Publish date: October 4th 2011
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages no: 222
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Writing,
Funny,
Reference,
Language,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Romance,
Historical Romance,
Contemporary,
Research
While this was enjoyable and fun to read, it didn't necessarily tell me anything I didn't already know. I think this book is perfect for the people (men and women) who disdain romance and by default, the people who write and read it. About a year ago, I was at the post office mailing out several boo...
I love Sarah Wendell's blog (Smart Bitches Trashy Books) and her podcast with Jane Litte of Dear Author (DBSA Romance Fiction Podcast), and I really really loved Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches Guide to Romance Novels, which is both smart and uproariously funny. So, I was very excited when ...
http://olvasonaplo.freeblog.hu/archives/2011/11/16/Sarah_Wendell_EIKAL/
Entertaining read, but not as much substance as I'd expected/hoped.
So basically, I love The Smart Bitches website, and I really like academic (code for geeky) breakdowns of literature and this had just enough fluff to be worthwhile. It made valid points, but didn't take itself too seriously, and was pretty much what I expected from Sarah Wendell - witty, wordy, wi...
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