High literature indeed

[dangermousie]

Titles of romance novels lying as reading material for parents in children's indoor play center I like going to with Baby Mousie:

The Billionaire Boss's Bride
The Outback Marriage Ransom
Sheikh's Castaway
The Ice Maiden's Sheikh
The Fierce and Tender Sheikh
The Prince's Virgin Wife
Possessed by the Sheikh
The Spaniard's Seduction
The English Aristocrat's Bride

Ahahahahahahahahha. I have no words. Mr. Mousie keeps groaning whenever he even catches a glimpse of these so I keep sticking them in his face. :)

Comments

[arathesane.livejournal.com]

I rather adore the title The Fierce and Tender Sheikh. Out of all them it makes me giggle the most.:D

[littledelusion.livejournal.com]

I personally like "The Spaniard's Seduction" and "The Billionaire Boss's Bride".

[arathesane.livejournal.com]

Hee, those are also fabulous. The entire list makes me smile.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

The latter drives me insane because there should not be the s after the apostrophe but they put it there anyway.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

There was a bunch more there, too. I never knew, before today, that there as a whole sheikh subset in romance novels. I thought that died out with Valentino.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

A sheikh: http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/4458/hishighnessgeneralsheik.jpg

A sheikh, according to romance literature: http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7284/519t8e5cg4lss500.jpg

God bless orientalist fantasies, eh.

[aliterati.livejournal.com]

Huh.

Is it just me, or is the way their hands are placed make it look like he's the one expecting the baby?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Now, THAT book I would read.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha. The former doesn't look too bad if you met him in RL, but obviously nothing like the latter. But then, I don't think English aristocrats look like Fabio, either, the way they do on the covers (shockingly, or perhaps not too shockingly, both billionaire boss, brit aristo and the sheik look like they could all be brothers).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Harlequin is still abusing the word "Sheikh," I take it...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I never knew before today it was a whole subgenre.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Traumatizingly so. I think the 80s and 90s also had tons of books in which the delicate, goldenhaired British woman was abducted and sold to a sheikh who miraculously lost interest in all other woman within moments and became enlightened to the ways of Europeans and either moved to Europe or decided to reform their people. Uhm...I'm pretty sure most of the sheikhs were half-European, because the delicate flowers of femininity couldn't fall in love with complete savages.

Even in my indiscriminate teen years where I was obvious to colonialism, cultural westernization and racefail in general, I avoid those.

There are a lot of Fetishized Romantic Male subgenres, actually. Harlequin and Silhouette probably all but survive on them.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I thought that trope died out in 1920s - I read a bunch of novels of that sort from that time period (some, amusingly, also fetishizing Russians, of all things).

[greycoupon.livejournal.com]

Hah, I've heard of the first two from reading the amazon romance forum. I think the first one is new Harlequin. Or maybe I'm thinking of The Greek Tycoon's Pregnant Wife. Gotta love those titles.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL at the Greek Tycoon one.

Just once I want to see The Janitor's Unwed Girlfriend Who Wants An Abortion as a romance title.

[elij-0650.livejournal.com]

Every month I put 30 romance titles into the Library collection. If you read the titles too literally the rape, abuse and so on is rather hard on the stomach. Especially first thing in the morning.

Have you traumatized Mr Mousie by flicking open to the last 1/3 of the book and reading out the "interesting relationship interplay" which infests the genre? Oh no, better not if there are impressionable children around.

I am quite fond of books heavy on the plot, I just prefer the females to have a chance at being treated as human. Old fashioned, much!?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I think I'd be looking at permanent Mr Mousie trauma if I read it to him (and little kids don't deserve hearing it either :P)

[livvy-s.livejournal.com]

This is so funny because just recently, I had a conversation with a friend about a series of ridiculous romance novel titles I'd come across:

The Greek Tycoon's Forbidden Bride
Forbidden Bride: Greek Tycoons
The BIllionaire Boss's Forbidden Mistress
Pirate Tycoon, Forbidden Baby

I pointed out that a lot of things seemed to be forbidden, at which my friend said you could probably find a romance novel with the word "Forbidden" for everything. Which was almost true - I soon after found a book called "Everything's forbidden" :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa