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mzminola · 3 years ago

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Honestly really glad I read Catherine M. Roach’s nonfiction book “Happily Ever After: the romance story in popular culture”. It’s good literary analysis of a genre, and it helped me identity the particulars of how a given book does or does not work for me.

#Min reads Romances #if I just dislike the characters from the start I can drop the book and pick another #if we get far enough into the plot that I want to see how it works out #and either a lead does something I CANNOT imagine them making up for #or by the time the books ends I feel they haven't made up for their harms to the other lead #or they've apologized but we don't have enough time to see CHANGED BEHAVIOR #that I can't imagine the Happily Ever After lasting in the long run #THAT'S when I want to throw the book at the wall #recently had the surprise at getting mad at the book for this with a SUPPORTING character #like excuse you this fucker coerced multiple people to cover up a scandal #and ensure his title had an heir #and he not only SUCCEEDS #he and his wife rekindle their old romance?#no fuck that

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