Comments on: Bella the Doormat – Another Reason to Say Goodnight to ‘Twilight’? http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bella-the-doormat-%e2%80%93-another-reason-to-say-goodnight-to-%e2%80%98twilight%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bella-the-doormat-%e2%80%93-another-reason-to-say-goodnight-to-%e2%80%98twilight%e2%80%99/#comment-7746 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:12:35 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15344#comment-7746 It may be that publishers see Georgette Heyer as having attained classic status, so they’re willing to bring back her books in all fields. She certainly seems to be the most admired writer of her era in the historical-romance field. I keep hearing about what a stickler for accuracy she was …

]]> By: Digital Dame http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bella-the-doormat-%e2%80%93-another-reason-to-say-goodnight-to-%e2%80%98twilight%e2%80%99/#comment-7745 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:18:25 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15344#comment-7745 I was in B&N a couple weeks ago and I was stunned to find books by Georgette Heyer in the “Mystery” section. I had no idea she’d written mysteries. I may have to pick one. I’m guessing they are all newly reissued for some reason.

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bella-the-doormat-%e2%80%93-another-reason-to-say-goodnight-to-%e2%80%98twilight%e2%80%99/#comment-7743 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:19:47 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15344#comment-7743 Interestingly, the authors of Beyond Heaving Bosoms say: Victorian is the next Regency. They think the Regency period has pretty well played itself out in romance novels and people are ready to move forward historically.

Your comment points to a possible reason for the burnout: Georgette Heyer was the best, or so the consensus seems to be, and she’s not writing any more … Thanks for mentioning her. She’s in Beyond Heaving Bosoms.

]]> By: Digital Dame http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bella-the-doormat-%e2%80%93-another-reason-to-say-goodnight-to-%e2%80%98twilight%e2%80%99/#comment-7742 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:10:53 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15344#comment-7742 I’m on board with that, it’s pretty hard to take romance novels seriously. When I was in 7th grade I went through a phase of reading Georgette Heyer’s Regency romance novels. Then I was over it. ;) But they did sort of prep me for reading Jane Austen, I learned a lot about Regency England from Heyer’s books.

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bella-the-doormat-%e2%80%93-another-reason-to-say-goodnight-to-%e2%80%98twilight%e2%80%99/#comment-7740 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:23:58 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15344#comment-7740 That line about backbone is typical of the book, by the way:). The authors have a breezy sense of humor … They seem to have figured out that they’d lose everybody if they took romance novels too seriously.

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bella-the-doormat-%e2%80%93-another-reason-to-say-goodnight-to-%e2%80%98twilight%e2%80%99/#comment-7736 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:11:25 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15344#comment-7736 I had no intention of spending money for this book. Now, it’s gotten to the point where “they” would have to pay me to read it. The heaving bosoms thing looks interesting for those of us who like to satirize genres we don’t read.

Malcolm

]]> By: Digital Dame http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bella-the-doormat-%e2%80%93-another-reason-to-say-goodnight-to-%e2%80%98twilight%e2%80%99/#comment-7733 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:51:47 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15344#comment-7733 I love that last line “…she couldn’t find her backbone if you showed her an X-ray.” :D

I bought these books as a birthday present for my son’s gf, who is apparently devouring them. Classic case of ‘Cinderella-complex.’ All she wants in life is be a stay-at-home mom, taken care of by a man. It was too embarrassing to purchase them at a local bookstore, I ordered them online.

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