http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/ Official Blog of Caridad Pineiro, Author of paranormals, romantic suspense, women's fiction and all other kinds of good stuff! Fri, 16 May 2008 06:56:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-48648 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:06:41 +0000 http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-48648 What a great opportunity! I'm glad you had the chance to talk about some of those stereotypes! What a great opportunity! I’m glad you had the chance to talk about some of those stereotypes!

]]> http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-48641 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:10:24 +0000 http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-48641 LOL! Very very true, Irene. Romance brings love and beauty into our lives. LOL! Very very true, Irene. Romance brings love and beauty into our lives.

]]> http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-48634 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:02:46 +0000 http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-48634 It's never going to go away completely...this idea that romances are trash and those who read them are somewhat lesser beings than those who read so-called literary works. Ah...genre fiction...that goes back to the days of pulp magazines with their green monsters and dead-shot heroes...and the children who read such stories. But, they exist because there is a need for escapist literature. Moby Dick...House of Seven Gables...Childe Roland...all romance, all escapism. Emily Dickinson wrote that the world was "too much with us, late and soon". The news is brutal every single day. Romance is the natural solution to ugliness. Bring on the brawny heroes, the brainy, resourceful heroines! We need a little Happily Ever After in our lives! It’s never going to go away completely…this idea that romances are trash and those who read them are somewhat lesser beings than those who read so-called literary works.
Ah…genre fiction…that goes back to the days of pulp magazines with their green monsters and dead-shot heroes…and the children who read such stories. But, they exist because there is a need for escapist literature. Moby Dick…House of Seven Gables…Childe Roland…all romance, all escapism.
Emily Dickinson wrote that the world was “too much with us, late and soon”. The news is brutal every single day. Romance is the natural solution to ugliness. Bring on the brawny heroes, the brainy, resourceful heroines! We need a little Happily Ever After in our lives!

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