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[pbray]

Borrowing the meme that's been going around, thought it time to ask folks what they expected from my LJ. I'm happy to have readers, and silent lurking is just fine, but if you'd like to chime in and let me know why you're reading my LJ, and what interests you, I'd like to hear from you.

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Yes, Patricia Veryan wrote wonderful books, as did Carla Kelly. I was also a huge fan of Mary Balogh, Jo Beverley's early novels and Loretta Chase, to name a couple off the top of my head.

I haven't read any new Regencies in several years because I was burned out on the genre. Though there is oddly enough a genre of SF known as space Regencies, that I still enjoy. Here I'm thinking of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden novels, and Lois McMaster Bujold's "A Civil Campaign". Plus "Sorcery and Cecelia" by Patricia Wrede, Caroline Stevermer which is how the Regency might have been in there was magic.

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I think I read every Zebra and Signet Regency I could get my hands on in my local library before I had my first root canal. Very frivolous and nicely distracting. Do I remember much about them? No. Except that when I hit burn out I noticed the cookie cutter effect. And that the heroes were ALWAYS dark. Bleh, I like fair men.

I read a few by Loretta Chase (it was in the pre root canal blur and I don't remember them). I haven't read Mary Balogh or Jo Beverly yet.

I'll have to look into Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (...:-) I used to listen to the Steve Miller Band). I've read Lois Mc Master Bujold's Curse of Challion and I now have the sequel (unread, savor savor).

I borrowed Sorcery and Cecelia from the library because it was such a neat concept. I had to bring it back unread (I can't remember why I couldn't get to it in time) and then forgot about it. It has a sequel too, "The Grand Tour : Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality" (whew).