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reynardoI mentioned the romance novel covers I obtained recently to turn into postcards. Now it's your turn. Below are twelve blub extracts. The only chages I've made are to a) remove any names from the titles, and b) to remove a couple of professions and locations that would make things much easier.
Choose which blurb belongs to which book...
[Poll #1528339]
Choose which blurb belongs to which book...
[Poll #1528339]
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Date: 2010-02-21 10:48 am (UTC)But then again - as romance lit was frowned at in the USSR, I had only read 2 of those before age of 25 ... and romance reading might be like driving - harder to learn in middle age?
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Date: 2010-02-21 10:53 am (UTC)It's escapism, pure and simple. When your boyfriend forgets your birthday, you imagine yourself getting the dozen roses from the Earl when he tried to apologise to Arabella. But they are sheer and utter mind-candy :-)
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Date: 2010-02-21 12:29 pm (UTC)It can be done. Instead of a prince we might have a communist party worker who might be unjustly harsh toward the collective farm milk maid.
But then it will turn out that the better conditions the milkmaid demanded for her cows DID result in more and higher quality milk. The communist gets honors for leading the collective farm to such success and to apologize for being wrong he will appear in the cow house with the said roses!
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Date: 2010-02-21 12:38 pm (UTC)And would you mind if I metaquoted you?
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:27 pm (UTC)As, indeed, there could or should be a rival farm where less support and means are asked and more milk is produced. But it would not be the communist who makes the advances (he is a straightforward guy, may be a former war hero to add some past trauma and titillating scars?) - it is the other milkmaid!
The point is - the rival milkmaid is a former princess. But she is letting it on how she has changed and now is all for the communism and helplessly in love with the communist*.
And while the trusting communist is being harsh toward the more demanding working class milkmaid and making excuses for the seduction (legacy of the rotten nobility upbringing, of course) it will eventually turn out that not only does the princess-milkmaid attempt to force the communist to marry her, even the outstanding milk production is not true! As the princess has been hiding the family jewels (instead of honestly handing them in to the state!) and selling those jewels on black market, buying more milk and presenting the bought milk as her produce!
The happy ending would bring roses and honors to the working class milkmaid and deportation (or death due to her own machinations. May-be her father or brother would be sent as a spy form some capitalist country and they will be disgusted with schemes of reaching out for the safety of a wife of a communist?) for the class enemy, the former princess.
*if we have a certain kind of romance book, then here would be the place where the seducing of the communist can be described in the lurid detail. May-be there would be - as it has to happen in the cow house, of course - even some use made of cow chains to make the scene more startling. Oh, the decadent ways or the rotting non-communist world. So disgusting to learn!
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Date: 2010-02-21 03:10 pm (UTC)I think you just broke my brain.
But in a good way. You need to write this book.
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Date: 2010-02-24 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-21 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-21 12:26 pm (UTC)I'll be interested to see how I did (and whether the one with tearing down the walls between them actually is The Carpenter's Lady, because it really should be...).
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Date: 2010-02-21 03:05 pm (UTC)Oooh! Oh! I know, I know!
"Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin!
*BEAM*
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Date: 2010-02-21 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-21 06:51 pm (UTC)Eech.
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Date: 2010-02-21 08:05 pm (UTC)