Romance Novels

Men must be transformed by love and enter into the woman's realm in order to emerge as fully-realized human beings.

-- Maria Bustillos at The Awl

Ms. Bustillos writes that this is a central theme of romance novels. Her larger theme is that people are too dismissive of romance literature as little fantasies for women readers. I doubt she will persuade anyone that this is truly serious literature. The main problem for that thesis, I think, is that such books will never tell the reader something new or lead him to look at his life or world in a different way, nor does the genre draw our best wordsmiths. Nevertheless, I thought the above quote was a great line, and it gave me pause in my skimming and made me think a little.

Romance Novels

Men must be transformed by love and enter into the woman's realm in order to emerge as fully-realized human beings.

-- Maria Bustillos at The Awl

Ms. Bustillos writes that this is a central theme of romance novels. Her larger theme is that people are too dismissive of romance literature as little fantasies for women readers. I doubt she will persuade anyone that this is truly serious literature. The main problem for that thesis, I think, is that such books will never tell the reader something new or lead him to look at his life or world in a different way, nor does the genre draw our best wordsmiths. Nevertheless, I thought the above quote was a great line, and it gave me pause in my skimming and made me think a little.

Sylvia

“If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier; if I didn’t have any sex organs, I wouldn’t waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.”

-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950

Teenagers! Okay, the problems and the grief never go away, but it gets a little better and we gain some perspective.

Sylvia

“If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier; if I didn’t have any sex organs, I wouldn’t waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.”

-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950

Teenagers! Okay, the problems and the grief never go away, but it gets a little better and we gain some perspective.

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