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2 | 21/05/2021 02:56 | @allllthebooks | Charlottelovestoread | #RomBkLove Traveling Together: I’m late but I love this in my books! Hairpin Curves by Elia Winters and The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan were great ones I can easily recall from last year. RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove Day 19: Traveling Together @minavesguerra loves when MCs travel together. Whether they meet on the trip, or take one to escape or confront something, it tell us a about what HEA/HFN could look like for them. What have been your favorite trips? | 1395634710630469632 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 21/05/2021 06:00 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395680836738076674 | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 21/05/2021 06:10 | @viviennecichero | Vivienne | @anacoqui @allieiswriting Easy. Georgette Heyer. #RomBkLove | 1395683382781046787 | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 21/05/2021 06:45 | @allieiswriting | Allie Parker has a Podcast👩🏽💻🥃 | Today I am ruminating personal canon and why that’s important and relevant for #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395692092706463745 | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 21/05/2021 06:48 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #rombklove RT @KtheKoordinator: I do! My first romance novel was Hard Day’s Knight by Katie MacAlister and after that I was HOOKED! | 1395693009132572673 | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 21/05/2021 06:49 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #rombklove RT @nikkiplans99: @anacoqui @allieiswriting My first romance read was Neanderthal Meets Human by Penny Reid, I was like oh this isn’t what I thought romance was. Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole made me a 60/40 romance reader. Because black girl with curly hair in love? Yep give me that forever. | 1395693114497642498 | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | 21/05/2021 06:51 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #rombklove RT @nikkiplans99: @anacoqui @allieiswriting Beautiful & Dirty (both books) by Katrina Jackson because I didn’t realize there were books with action, good sex and black women. (Also I had never looked before 🙄) Honorable mention to Get A Life Chole Brown, got me out of a reading slump and 90% romance reader now. | 1395693615393828864 | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | 21/05/2021 07:37 | @MeganHBurton | Megan - KindleLovingMom | My first ever romance was Paradise by Judith McNaught! I was 14. But I was still just a dabbler. It didn't stick for me until after I read Twilight in my mind-20s. Then I read Lori Foster & Lora Leigh's backlists, and then I just kept going, and I haven't stopped! #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395705257699721216 | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 21/05/2021 07:42 | @MeganHBurton | Megan - KindleLovingMom | Books I rec are usually faves! Anything by my favorite favorite, Tessa Bailey. My fave historical ever, Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks. Anything by the woman who can make me like any trope, Naima Simone. My top book of 2020, A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane. #RomBkLove | 1395706653908082688 | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | 21/05/2021 07:46 | @smutreport | The Smut Report | When I started reading romance in high school, I only read histrom—early Julia Quinn, Johanna Lindsey, Lisa Kleypas, Julie Garwood. The books mostly blur together, but Skye O'Malley by Bertrice Small will live rent-free in my head for the rest of my life. #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395707654929096704 | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | 21/05/2021 07:50 | @MeganHBurton | Megan - KindleLovingMom | I constantly rec The Brown Sisters series by Talia Hibbert. My favorites for delicious, short & smutty, Brill Harper and Jessa Kane. Katee Robert's O'Malleys.😍 And always, ALWAYS my fave PNR series, The Psy-Changelings by Nalini Singh. Her world is just *chef's kiss*! #RomBkLove | 1395708463876120577 | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | 21/05/2021 08:01 | @RoyalineSing | Royaline💗Betting On A Duke's Heart | #RomBkLove D21: Romance is Radha Krishna(I know there is no HEA) and #Bollywood but before that point they have such epic love story when you grow up on it you pick up reading to feed that frenzy. To mention English books- Stephanie Laurense, Christina Dodd established it 4 me! RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395711287900966913 | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | 21/05/2021 08:34 | @sayz456 | Saynab | Day 21 of #RomBkLove Personal Canon My first foray into historical romance #TheDukeAndI by Julia Quinn as #HijabOutfit | 1395719707005788161 | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 21/05/2021 08:39 | @sayz456 | Saynab | Day 21 of #RomBkLove Personal Canon My first foray into historical romance #MineTillMidnight by Lisa Kleypas as #HijabOutfit | 1395720848259096577 | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 21/05/2021 08:47 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @mjkeran: @anacoqui @allieiswriting I read a few YA historical romances by Meg Cabot waaaay back in the day and picked up the occasional romance through the years but what really turned me on to romance in a big way was Courtney Milan, specifically The Duchess War. | 1395722958170116101 | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 21/05/2021 08:56 | @ShelfLovePod | Shelf Love: The Podcast for Romance Nerds | Today's #RomBkLove prompt is "personal canons." Way back, I had a series where I asked my guests what books they would nominate to be part of a hypothetical & idealized "modern romance canon." You can view the full booklist here! | 1395725146653089792 | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | 21/05/2021 09:25 | @sayz456 | Saynab | Day 21 of #RomBkLove Personal Canon My first foray into historical romance #NineRulesToBreakWhenRomancingARake by @sarahmaclean as #HijabOutfit | 1395732598517903364 | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | 21/05/2021 09:39 | @lillie_80 | Lillie | #RomBkLove I wrote a full, sappy essay about my personal romance canon last year when it seemed everything was at its worst. RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395735944821620736 | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 21/05/2021 09:58 | @Cdn_Tam | Tam A. | @anacoqui @allieiswriting #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon As a teen I borrowed from a neighbor. One of the first was Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss. I know those old bodice rippers had troublesome themes, but... First #MMRomance was by @LynnLorenz Opened my eyes and I was hooked. | 1395740702898855938 | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | 21/05/2021 10:03 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #rombklove RT @JaneWalshWrites: I've been reading romance for almost 30 years. My first was Jo Beverley's MY LADY NOTORIOUS and I was in love from that day forward with historical romance. ❤ | 1395742130728013827 | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 21/05/2021 10:09 | @ChickLitPodcast | ChickLitBookClub | #RomBkLove Day 21: Personal Canon Rae: I loved P&P this moment I read it & still #1 for me. @ #1.5: North and South-I found an updated P&P w/social issues & female autonomy. “I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.” | 1395743439485083650 | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | 21/05/2021 10:22 | @fv_angela | FV Angela 📚⚾️🏀🌊🍷 | My first romance was something I found in my mother’s closet, The Tiger’s Woman. My second was borrowed from a friend, Wolf’s Embrace. That was my freshman year in high school. I haven’t stopped reading romance since. #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395746802159300617 | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | 21/05/2021 10:31 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | The day I was most looking forward to! I'll be back here later with a small 🧵 💙💜 #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395749159907565569 | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | 21/05/2021 10:32 | @kinilei1 | Kini | Romances that Built Me aka my personal canon #rombklove Faking It by Jennifer Crusie Trashed & Thirsty by Mia Hopkins Willing Victim by Cara McKenna Burn Down the Night by M Okeefe This are just some of the books that shaped me as a reader and books I like to recommend RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395749226190184451 | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | 21/05/2021 10:34 | @gonewiththeword | 𝓙𝓮𝓼𝓼 ☕️ | #RomBkLove The first romance I read was Chasing Perfect by Susan Mallery. I loved it. Then I read Kristan Higgins and LOVEEED those. RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395749875690754059 | |||||||||||||||||||||
27 | 21/05/2021 10:48 | @MelindaEdits | Melinda | My personal canon, when I look at it as what brought me to romance and made me stick: - Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh - The Story Guy by Mary Ann Rivers - Something About You by Julie James I read all in 2012/2013 and have been reading romance ever since 💕 #RomBkLove | 1395753299274608642 | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | 21/05/2021 11:04 | @ChickLitPodcast | ChickLitBookClub | #RomBkLove Day 21: Personal Canon Rae: I loved P&P the moment I read it & its still #1 for me. At #1.5: North and South-I found an updated P&P w/social issues & female autonomy. “I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.” | 1395757365354500098 | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | 21/05/2021 11:05 | @has_bookpushers | Has 'Romance purist' | I have a book rec for Fantasy romance! Daughter of No World's by Carissa Broadbent. Gorgeous slow burn romance with a grumpy reclusive hero who takes in an ex slave heroine who is determined to free her people. Lots of intrigue and rich world. Loved it #RomBkLove | 1395757564235816960 | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | 21/05/2021 11:07 | @Gwenda | Gwenda Bond 😈, chairwoman of hagville | Love this! And I have a blog post from The Time! #RomBkLove 2021 RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395758266051928078 | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | 21/05/2021 11:10 | @kelly_instalove | Kelly | Personal #RomBkLove canon: Formative years, sneaked out of my sister's room.... Danielle Steel, especially the especially batshit THE PROMISE and THE RING SCRUPLES by Judith Krantz (a p3nis in the first chapter!!!) FOREVER by Judy Blume (page 110) RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395758997165248516 | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | 21/05/2021 11:21 | @jamadoria | J. Bergeron 🖤💛🥅🏒 | My first romances were ones I “borrowed” from my mom’s nightstand. My personal canon is the enemies-to-lovers trope & it continues all these years later. I’ll read others, but it’s still my fave! Here are 2 step backs I still love today! #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395761746288254987 | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | 21/05/2021 11:26 | @JaneWalshWrites | Jane Walsh 🏳️🌈 | #RomBkLove I find the idea of a Personal Canon really interesting, because mine has shifted so much over time. 1990s - my canon was Virginia Henley, Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Loretta Chase, Jane Feather. 1 or 2 from McNaught. Anything with the Topaz guy on the spine. | 1395763016919027716 | |||||||||||||||||||||
34 | 21/05/2021 11:28 | @KatyJamesWriter | Katy James | I don't remember my first romance, since I was REALLY young and basically dove head first into the genre - with my mom's blessing! We used to pass Amanda Quick books back and forth like they were gold, though - definitely an author who turned me to romance. #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395763498840256514 | |||||||||||||||||||||
35 | 21/05/2021 11:29 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #rombklove RT @RamenGrrl: @anacoqui @allieiswriting I started reading my mom’s romances when I was in 6th grade. I had to hide the covers so my teacher didn’t see what I was reading. Don’t remember my first romance though but I was hooked. Cut to 2018 when i was reading 5-7 books a week. I can’t do that anymore though. | 1395763587906420741 | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | 21/05/2021 11:31 | @JaneWalshWrites | Jane Walsh 🏳️🌈 | #RomBkLove - 2000s - after SMART BITCHES started up, I had access to tons of great recs. Fell in love with Laura Kinsale, Judith Ivory, Lisa Kleypas, Betina Khran. Finally got interested in contemps with Jennifer Crusie, Nora Roberts, Susan Elizabeth Phillips. | 1395764083245342723 | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | 21/05/2021 11:31 | @kelly_instalove | Kelly | Genre rom reading didn't start until I got my first Kindle. Looking back through my purchases, Elizabeth Hoyt was my first author binge. Then, in order: Quinn, Kleypas, Linden, MacLean, Dare, Justiss, Rolls, Long #RomBkLove | 1395764292847390725 | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | 21/05/2021 11:35 | @JaneWalshWrites | Jane Walsh 🏳️🌈 | #RomBkLove- 2010s - became a huge Eloisa James fan. Lots and lots of rereads in this decade. Discovered lesfic and started reading Melissa Brayden, Nell Stark, Meghan O'Brien (pinch me - I am now published alongside these icons at @boldstrokebooks ) | 1395765220325445634 | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | 21/05/2021 11:36 | @kelly_instalove | Kelly | I just noticed that I bought the Lady Julia Grey bundle and the first Sebastian St Cyr. on Sept 12, 2010. Which means my relationship with @deannaraybourn and @csharris2 will soon be of longer duration than my ill-fated marriage. #RomBkLove | 1395765509686185986 | |||||||||||||||||||||
40 | 21/05/2021 11:37 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @MeasuredAndSlow: I started out stealing my mom’s Johanna Lindseys, which is why my personal cannon is absolutely bananas bonkers 🤣. But I think Jenny Crusie is the one that really made me a lifelong romance reader, and I always recommend Bet Me because it’s just…I love it. | 1395765696269848580 | |||||||||||||||||||||
41 | 21/05/2021 11:46 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @nystacey: Until forever by Johanna Lindsey was the first romance that really resonated with me. It was a story that simultaneously busted through all the preconceived notions about the genre I had at the time. Chasing Stanley by Deidre Martin was another formative book for me. | 1395767859595419648 | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | 21/05/2021 11:47 | @nystacey | stacey agdern history of us releases 6/24 | Recommendations are different because I'm so very obsessed with personalizing recs from my time as a bookseller. #rombklove | 1395768109680705544 | |||||||||||||||||||||
43 | 21/05/2021 11:52 | @JaneWalshWrites | Jane Walsh 🏳️🌈 | #RomBkLove- 2020s - 3 decades from where I started, and so many of my 1990s diehard favorites are hard or impossible for me to reread now. The pacing is so different, and they are so often problematic (often in ways I didn't realize or glossed over at the time). | 1395769435126910979 | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | 21/05/2021 11:55 | @JaneWalshWrites | Jane Walsh 🏳️🌈 | #RomBkLove- one thing remains constant, though. My LIFELONG recommendation to anyone who has never read romance, and who wants to pick up their first historical? Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels. Jessica & Dain forever. | 1395770173110562818 | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | 21/05/2021 12:25 | @melon_reads | Melanie | #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: I love the idea of a personal romance canon. For me, it's very different - I haven't read any of the "classic" romance novels that pop up when we have this discussion. I've never read Flame and the Flower or a Georgette Heyer. My journey to romance 1/5 RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395777726284435459 | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | 21/05/2021 12:47 | @ZelenaSwift | Courtney Austen | An Offer from a Gentleman was the read that really turned me into a romance reader. But the reads I rec tend to be more recent: Courtney Milan’s entire backlist (with emphasis on The Duke Who Didn’t) and The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham are pretty much perfection #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395783224169680897 | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | 21/05/2021 12:53 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @sarah4libraries: @anacoqui @allieiswriting Not the 1st romance I read but the first that I consciously remember is Candlelight Regency #589 The Ardent Suitor by Marian Lorraine. My personal cannon includes Crusie, Lynn Kurland's time travel medievals, @NaliniSingh @JayneAnnKrentz, Loretta Chase, & many more authors. | 1395784708286464004 | |||||||||||||||||||||
48 | 21/05/2021 12:56 | @ChickLitPodcast | ChickLitBookClub | Elizabeth's personal character arc hit all kinds of home for me. Her fear of a committed relationship, her devotion to her job, her deep love for her friends... it's all so familiar. I could read this book over and over. In fact, I have, and will again in the future. #RomBkLove | 1395785611815096321 | |||||||||||||||||||||
49 | 21/05/2021 12:56 | @ChickLitPodcast | ChickLitBookClub | #RomBkLove Day 21: Personal Canon - Veronica It is and always will be Friends Without Benefits from @ReidRomance. Elizabeth is my soul sister. "There's the whole falling in hopeless love with your kids thing; and that kind of love scared the poo out of me." RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395785610128990213 | |||||||||||||||||||||
50 | 21/05/2021 13:11 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @normajeanesays: LA NORA 🤩 And Teresa Medeiros ✨ then later in my college years and early twenties i learned from the greats Tessa Dare and Sarah MacLean and Elizabeth Hoyt. i keep finding myself reccing ⬆️ Alyssa Cole, Lydia San Andres, Grace Draven, Chace Verity, Alexis Daria, Mia Sosa | 1395789423879524355 | |||||||||||||||||||||
51 | 21/05/2021 13:13 | @wenchlychumz | Brittany B/Bria James 📚✒️🏔️🍫 | I started with HR romance at 13. It was eye opening! It wasn't until 15 when I picked up JQ in the Seattle airport I was hooked. Its been life changing for me. #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395789915158368257 | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | 21/05/2021 13:17 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @PiperJDrake: I came to romance as an adult. It was CL Wilson's Lord of the Fading Lands, an epic fantasy romance with sweeping worldbuilding & such characters! I was hooked on the feels romance could give me forever. | 1395790929718648844 | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | 21/05/2021 13:18 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @normajeanesays: but i feel an extremely blessed gift that my romance defining moments happy every day i am here reading contemporaries @suleikhasnyder @miasosaromance @quicunquevult @chace_verity @alexisdaria @AlishaRai @rebelwrites_ & MORE transform the game into new exciting possibilities | 1395791060132061188 | |||||||||||||||||||||
54 | 21/05/2021 13:25 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @diygeochemist: I didn't read a "real" romance until I was in my 30's. But my mom left a lot of Michener lying around the house (which I read starting @ age 10) and every time a scene with racy bits got cut short I was like...but what happens next? | 1395792993660116998 | |||||||||||||||||||||
55 | 21/05/2021 13:27 | @readingtheclues | Reading the Clues | @anacoqui @allieiswriting #RomBkLove First was a Dorothy Garlock hist western that I borrowed from my mom (do not rec, racist content, other problematic things - and the hero self diagnoses himself w/cancer that is not cancer b/c he is not a doc) I remember binging McNaught, Roberts, Deveraux, Krentz. | 1395793331020570628 | |||||||||||||||||||||
56 | 21/05/2021 13:31 | @readingtheclues | Reading the Clues | @anacoqui @allieiswriting #RomBkLove Read so much historical from there - Garwood, Jenkins, Lowell, etc. Then more contemp. As for recs/canon? This is such a librarian answer but I always ask what they like to read & go from there. | 1395794393639096321 | |||||||||||||||||||||
57 | 21/05/2021 13:32 | @MelindaEdits | Melinda | - Vivid by Beverly Jenkins - Every New Year by Katrina Jackson - Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn - the Beyond series by Kit Rocha - Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh These are ones that are in my current personal canon. #RomBkLove | 1395794565081280513 | |||||||||||||||||||||
58 | 21/05/2021 13:32 | @MelindaEdits | Melinda | Okay and take 2: Norma made me think of what I consider my personal canon now and not just what brought me here. - Invitation to the Blues by Roan Parrish(sorry I will not stop reccing it 😂) - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade - Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole #RomBkLove | 1395794564171055106 | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | 21/05/2021 13:36 | @mostlybree | Bree (tweeting from the writing cave) | Ok also I forgot for #RomBkLove that when I was a senior in HS someone gave my mom a Dara Joy book and it was on the shelf so I read it AND IT MADE SUCH AN IMPRESSION I STILL REMEMBER IT the sex through a cage that kicks off the book is the most chill this book ever is | 1395795728333684736 | |||||||||||||||||||||
60 | 21/05/2021 13:45 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @anaisisreading: One grandmother handed me a Betty Neels Harlequin novel when I was around 9 or 10? And my other granny had a huge pile of Nora Roberts & Janet Dailey that I would stay up all night reading with a flashlight whenever we visited. This Calder Sky sticks out in particular. | 1395797828887367681 | |||||||||||||||||||||
61 | 21/05/2021 13:53 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @filmsbyzoe: everything, everything was a defining moment for me in romance books several years ago if i never met you turned me into a romance reader as an adult but get a life, chloe brown really made me feel loved and appreciated i always rec eleanor oliphant is completely fine | 1395800030074843137 | |||||||||||||||||||||
62 | 21/05/2021 13:59 | @nsperkinsauthor | N. S. Perkins | #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Romance books that made me the reader and writer I am today. Anything by Colleen Hoover, Mariana Zapata, Sarah Hogle, and Christina Lauren. Also, TFIOS and Twilight. | 1395801553882296324 | |||||||||||||||||||||
63 | 21/05/2021 14:00 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @_terri_jones: @anacoqui @allieiswriting My grandmother read Harlequins, and Barbara Cartland...and I got bored and wandered off into sf/f. But five years ago I met current Romances, and oh hey, not my grandma's formula stories! AND there's m/m and queer ones?? Gimme! | 1395801774980747268 | |||||||||||||||||||||
64 | 21/05/2021 16:54 | @tcshields | Tracy Shields | #RomBkLove 2021 Day 21: Personal Canon 1/6 I'm afraid to think about the first romance I read - had to be 25+ years ago. There's been a lot of reads since then, I didn't track my reading until Jan 2020 (tbh, I still can't tell you what I read last week) RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395845581659049986 | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | 21/05/2021 16:54 | @tcshields | Tracy Shields | #RomBkLove 2021 Day 21: Personal Canon 3/6 My romance reads back in the day overlapped heavily with SFF. Urban fantasy / PNR got me into contemporaries. I eventually discovered historicals. I remember burning through Susan Johnson (can you say problematic?) like it was my job. | 1395845585324892160 | |||||||||||||||||||||
66 | 21/05/2021 16:54 | @tcshields | Tracy Shields | #RomBkLove 2021 Day 21: Personal Canon 2/6 SFF was my entry into Romancelandia, so it's a bit hazy what qualifies as my first true romance read. Mid-90s, I read Dara Joy's Knight of Trillion Stars, Paradise City by Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Jayne Ann Krentz's Sweet Starfire. | 1395845583441694721 | |||||||||||||||||||||
67 | 21/05/2021 16:54 | @tcshields | Tracy Shields | #RomBkLove 2021 Day 21: Personal Canon 6/6 Early, formative books I will always rec: ❤️SFF/UF/PNR: Kate Daniels series - Ilona Andrews ❤️historical: Lord of Scoundrels - Loretta Chase ❤️historical: Indigo - Beverly Jenkins There are others, but they seem so... personal to share. | 1395845589087264768 | |||||||||||||||||||||
68 | 21/05/2021 16:54 | @tcshields | Tracy Shields | #RomBkLove 2021 Day 21: Personal Canon 5/6 I'll read most any kind of romance, but SFF romance is my lodestone. I was an early adopter of ebooks (downloaded tons from Ellora's Cave), reading them on my computer before kindle happened. I only get certain authors in print now. | 1395845587925356545 | |||||||||||||||||||||
69 | 21/05/2021 16:54 | @tcshields | Tracy Shields | #RomBkLove 2021 Day 21: Personal Canon 4/6 In early 2000s, an acquaintance suggested I read Nora Roberts. Somehow I'd missed her. Romance reads were my outlet in grad school during the mid-aughts; even did a research project focused on romance genre, looking at author websites. | 1395845586688094211 | |||||||||||||||||||||
70 | 21/05/2021 17:02 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @ingloriousgigi: I don't remember my first. However, I do remember the one that stuck with the longest and it's 'Delaney's Desert Sheikh' by Brenda Jackson. It was the first time I ever saw a Black woman on the cover of a romance novel and I was never the same after that. | 1395847500511293446 | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | 21/05/2021 17:02 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @MrsJordanMonroe: @anacoqui @allieiswriting I’ll say it forever and ever: Sarah Maclean’s Nine Rules, etc. came out exactly when I needed it. That book truly saved my depressed 19-year-old broken-hearted self. | 1395847553283993604 | |||||||||||||||||||||
72 | 21/05/2021 17:02 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @KDean1010: @anacoqui @allieiswriting Meg Cabot’s Princess Diaries. | 1395847607486922752 | |||||||||||||||||||||
73 | 21/05/2021 17:34 | @MichiganPal | Pauline | @anacoqui #RomBkLove The first romance I remember reading is one I was far too young for, but I'm still here to talk… | 1395855458250993665 | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | 21/05/2021 17:46 | @MichiganPal | Pauline | @anacoqui #RomBkLove Woodiwiss' "Ashes in the Wind" was my escape from the world when my teenage depression came to a head. Other memorable books for me are more along the family sga line but romance was central to the stories. | 1395858547636846595 | |||||||||||||||||||||
75 | 21/05/2021 17:51 | @shantrovert | Shannon Morgan | #RomBkLove Day 21: Personal Canon I started reading Rom in 2012. The premise of Tessa Dare's A WEEK TO BE WICKED sucked me in. I glommed her backlist, then inhaled everything Sherry Thomas had out. Then I gobbled up Cara McKenna's contemps (Kelly Robak's still a Top 10 hero). | 1395859923930689538 | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | 21/05/2021 18:24 | @AMayna57 | Audrey, CMS | Day 21 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, from the school book fair, is prob the first. Reading the summary brings it all back. Bought first "grown up" one at 13 (signed/dated it) Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart #RomBkLove | 1395868004538257410 | |||||||||||||||||||||
77 | 21/05/2021 18:25 | @Sassycatz | Sassycatz | @anacoqui @allieiswriting I'm old. I can't remember the first romance I read because I was a kid when I did. The books that changed everything were Kathleen Woodiwiss' the 1970s The Flame and The Flower and The Wolf and The Dove. They certainly impacted my teenage life & those of my girlfriends #RomBkLove | 1395868475881627653 | |||||||||||||||||||||
78 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | My personal romance canon: A thread 🧵 - I’ve chosen books that shifted my understanding of my own preferences as a reader & opened up new horizons for me. Most are also favourites, but not all. They mark the steps I’ve taken on my road through Romancelandia so far #RomBkLove RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395869773049761796 | |||||||||||||||||||||
79 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | 1. The Duchess War by Courtney Milan - because it was my first romance novel, recommended to me by a stranger when I was looking for a book pick-me-up. It was a HEA *revelation*. #RomBkLove | 1395869783703359492 | |||||||||||||||||||||
80 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | 2. Band Sinister by KJ Charles - wherein I discovered that historical romance could also be queer & joyful, & that KJC was an absolute genius. #RomBkLove | 1395869800887459840 | |||||||||||||||||||||
81 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | For Real by Alexis Hall - introduced me to both contemporary & kinky romance at once, which was a true brain overload. Also, alerted me to the fact that baking can be very sexy. #RomBkLove | 1395869816754409475 | |||||||||||||||||||||
82 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | Priest by Sierra Simone - holy smokes I did not know I was so naive nor did I believe in internal combustion before. The scene with the holy oil? 🤯 raised my threshold on the erotic through the roof. #RomBkLove | 1395869828326510594 | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert - recalibrated what I thought a small town romance could be & prompted my very first series binge. Made me think seriously about representation in the genre. #RomBkLove | 1395869838271205378 | |||||||||||||||||||||
84 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | Thirsty by Mia Hopkins - convinced me of the value of the single POV & sold me on audiobooks. I stayed up half the night listening to Sal’s story. #RomBkLove | 1395869849629376513 | |||||||||||||||||||||
85 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | Strange Love by Ann Aguirre - monsters are hot. That’s it, that’s what I learned. (Kidding, I also learned that I love the challenge of MCs navigating physiological & emotional barriers to love one another 😍) #RomBkLove | 1395869858840076299 | |||||||||||||||||||||
86 | 21/05/2021 18:31 | @romancingread | Vicky | Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Grey - a masterclass in how to use time in historical romance, that made me realise my fave HEAs are the delayed, slowly won, well worn kind. #RomBkLove | 1395869874887536641 | |||||||||||||||||||||
87 | 21/05/2021 18:48 | @hannahheartsro1 | Hannah Hearts Romance | #RomBkLove Day 21 Unclaimed by Courtney Milan Serving Pleasure by Alisha Rai Luck of the Draw by Kate Clayborn Small Change by Roan Parrish Work For It by Talia Hibbert RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395874289912582146 | |||||||||||||||||||||
88 | 21/05/2021 18:48 | @hannahheartsro1 | Hannah Hearts Romance | #RomBkLove Day 21: Personal Canon I love this prompt! My canon is my identity as a romance reader, how the books I read affect/imprint on me, and how I got to where I am in my relationship with the genre. Here are the books essential to me as the reader I am today: | 1395874288486518785 | |||||||||||||||||||||
89 | 21/05/2021 19:12 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @ECwasabadidea: @anacoqui @allieiswriting I know it was Barbara Cartland vaguely remember a hidden staircase (I think). | 1395880209795239941 | |||||||||||||||||||||
90 | 21/05/2021 19:21 | @anacoqui | Ana Coqui | #RomBkLove RT @JemmaLourdes: I read a few as a young teen (Judith Krantz!!) and then in hs/college I was brainwashed into thinking I had to read “serious” books. A couple of graduate degrees later, I thankfully realized that was bullshit. Joanna Bourne brought me back into the fold. | 1395882558324359170 | |||||||||||||||||||||
91 | 21/05/2021 19:56 | @dekabat | Renée Dahlia / Renée Geelen | #RomBkLove 1st. Nora Robert’s Thoroughbred series Always: Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, Rachel Reid, Olivia Waite. RT @anacoqui: #RomBkLove 2021 day 21: Personal Canon Do you remember your first romance novel? What romances turned you into a romance reader and defined romance for you? Do you have ones you always rec? @allieiswriting shares her personal romance canon: | 1395891323870203904 | |||||||||||||||||||||
92 | 21/05/2021 20:15 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | Jacaranda Tree absolutely does not stand up today, but what worked was the ship, the storm, and the wrecking on the coast of Australia, PLUS crocodile wrestling. I own a copy for memories sake. (2)... #RomBkLove | 1395895968139202564 | |||||||||||||||||||||
93 | 21/05/2021 20:15 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | #RomBkLove Day 21 - Personal Canon I've always been a romance reader, thanks in large part to the collection of books my mom had stashed under her bed and in her night stand. Two stand out first were Rebecca Brandewine's Jacaranda Tree and Bertrice Small's Betrayed (1)... | 1395895964309798912 | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | 21/05/2021 20:15 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | Phew, Betrayed by Bertrice Small, I cannot believe I was reading her at 12yo. What a ride. He takes her "maiden-head" as payment for cattle she stole! A highland chieftain kidnaps her as revenge, and makes her his wife. Mirror sexy-times! Breastseller material! #RomBkLove | 1395895969628180485 | |||||||||||||||||||||
95 | 21/05/2021 20:21 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | Besides stealing from my mom, I also read books like Mrs. Mike (that one is embarrassing) and anything else I could get my hands on with kissing. I also glommed all the Star Wars novels with kissing. #RomBkLove | 1395897525694050304 | |||||||||||||||||||||
96 | 21/05/2021 20:23 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | I also read all of David Eddings' work for the romance arcs, including The Belgariad and The Ellenium (OG stern brunch daddy knight for me). #RomBkLove | 1395898002766716928 | |||||||||||||||||||||
97 | 21/05/2021 20:25 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | I've finally got my personal romance canon going! #RomBkLove. Thanks @allie for this great prompt! RT @bandherbooks: The day I was most looking forward to! I'll be back here later with a small 🧵 💙💜 #RomBkLove | 1395898517995065346 | |||||||||||||||||||||
98 | 21/05/2021 20:27 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | In college I didn't read as many fun books, and I kind of lost my way for awhile, but thanks to the new and AMAZING library self-check machine and the romance novel spinners, I found my way to Stephanie Laurens. Devil's Bride! That whole damn family! So much oral! #RomBkLove | 1395899164693868552 | |||||||||||||||||||||
99 | 21/05/2021 20:30 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | All that time I was a secret romance reader. NO ONE COULD KNOW. I was so concerned with being judged and I definitely considered it a guilty pleasure. That sucked, because why? A water shed moment for me then was buying paperbacks for my new library job. #RomBkLove | 1395899795613618179 | |||||||||||||||||||||
100 | 21/05/2021 20:33 | @bandherbooks | b.andherbooks | While buying romance novels for work, I saw her. Lady Georgiana. In all her glory. And I was like, why am I hiding my very obvious love for these stories?! These books are awesome! #RomBkLove | 1395900490467139585 |