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Post by devogirl on Apr 30, 2011 20:42:49 GMT -5
Oh and BTW I would add "Taste for Love" by Elizabeth Glenn to the very short list of really good romance with a blind hero. It was published in the 1980s and the cover is painfully, hideously tacky, but don't let that deter you.
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Post by ~Z28gal~ on May 12, 2011 23:35:50 GMT -5
OMG! Search for "Dark Star of Love" in the Amazon Kindle section...  |
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Post by merry on May 13, 2011 2:47:55 GMT -5
OMG! Search for "Dark Star of Love" in the Amazon Kindle section... ;D Hee!! NOT quite the cheesy romance I thought I was searching for!!! |
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Post by Dee Dee on May 13, 2011 3:00:09 GMT -5
Yes, I am also interested in that list  . |
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Post by dolly on May 13, 2011 7:04:38 GMT -5
OMG! Search for "Dark Star of Love" in the Amazon Kindle section... lol! |
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Post by Dee Dee on May 13, 2011 10:15:54 GMT -5
OMG! Search for "Dark Star of Love" in the Amazon Kindle section... Do you mean the one by Elisabeth Glenn? I could only find the paperback version, but what is wrong with it? It is cheesy, but what is "wrong" other than that? |
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Post by ruthmadison on May 13, 2011 10:40:43 GMT -5
OMG! Search for "Dark Star of Love" in the Amazon Kindle section... Do you mean the one by Elisabeth Glenn? I could only find the paperback version, but what is wrong with it? It is cheesy, but what is "wrong" other than that? I know, I did the same thing! Don't look it up with the quote marks. If you look up "dark star of love", you get the book. If you look it up without quote marks, you get something different! It took me a while to figure that out and I didn't know why everyone was laughing. |
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Post by ~Z28gal~ on May 13, 2011 11:22:31 GMT -5
 Here I was, half asleep, just trying to find a good book... Cracked me up, I had to share. Sorry, I should have specified without the quotes!!
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Post by dentelle on May 13, 2011 14:33:52 GMT -5
Hey All! Have any of you read the V.C. Andrews Series, Flowers in the Attic? The second to last book, Seeds of Yesterday, ends the series. In it, Jory is paralized after an 'accident'. It's a dark dark book. Heck the whole series was dark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeds_of_Yesterday |
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Post by Valkyrja on May 13, 2011 21:42:02 GMT -5
...I posted a link in the "what to watch" thread specifically with you in mind (a British TV mini-series that you haven't mentioned in any of your posts here as far as I can see. It's called "Second Sight". It blows me away - inner dev and all - every time I revisit it)... Have you seen it? I watched it on tv a couple of years ago... not the entire mini serie, just the first chapter. I LOVE Clive Owens... but I loved him more in this serie. I could never find it in here... so, I couldn´t see all the miniserie! I enjoy blind-guy romance and movies a lot... I don´t know if it´s in a dev way because it doesn´t make me feel the same... but I do enjoy it very much |
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Post by dolly on May 14, 2011 0:15:55 GMT -5
this was one of the first dev books i remember reading... and loving. a few years ago i ordered an old paperback copy and was rather surprised to discover how very little detail was actually given in the story. i'd definitely embellished it in my mind! it was a book that confirmed for me the fact that i really did, for certain, "like" that sort of thing... in a way that i couldn't deny or explain away. so it will always hold a special place in my heart. although it kinda makes me sad too, remembering the guilt and confusion i felt around it. (i remember feeling paranoid about signing it out of the library too often. lol ) www.amazon.com/Head-over-Wheels-Lee-Kingman/dp/0440931290i'm not recommending it for reading now (it's written for a pre-teen audience), but i'm just curious if anyone else (especially the older generation) remembers reading this book? i think it came out around '86. |
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Post by merry on May 14, 2011 3:18:41 GMT -5
Dolly Didn't read that one - but I completely relate to what you said about it. I went back again to my "first" years later and just like you couldn't believe how little dev content there was!! Even worse - it was a story with a cure - try and avoid those now... (and like you I worried that the librarians would notice the frequency with which I checked the book out!) I do still want to try and get hold of a copy - just for purely nostalgic, sentimental reasons. It was this one. www.amazon.co.uk/Wind-Blowing-Romney-Marsh-Punchbowl/dp/1847450733After overcoming my exclusive addiction to that one I found Jean Ure's "See you Thursday" in our library. www.goodreads.com/book/show/1408011.See_You_ThursdayThis is a book I still read at least 3-4 times a year :-) - my ULTIMATE comfort blanket. Addiction still well and truly in place. I've just figured out that I've been re-reading it several times a year for about 25 years (and in those first few years I must have read it at least twice every time I checked it out of the library (which was probably about 10 times a year!). Features probably one of the most charming, easy-going, realistic fictional blind guys in my collection. She also wrote another (lovely) dev-friendly grown-up book called "Curtain Fall". Another old favorite of mine. (mentioned and reviewed in this blog post) pennyscribbles.blogspot.com/2010/11/chance-to-sit-down-by-meredith-daneman.html . Another great disabled-guy-as-lead book (he's an ex-ballet dancer who has MS). Both these books are well worth looking up, despite being a little dated now (both set in 1970s, early '80s London). The writing style and story content is not dated. By the way Val: If yo're interested, Second sight is now available to buy from Amazon.com. It was re-released in the US due to Clive Owen's increasing popularity there: www.amazon.com/Second-Sight-Complete-Collection-Clive/dp/B0030Y11T2/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1305360606&sr=8-6 |
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Post by Valkyrja on May 14, 2011 10:59:47 GMT -5
Thank you, Merry... I´ve put it on my list of "things to buy" LOL
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Post by Emma on May 14, 2011 12:59:55 GMT -5
LOL, did you see the product details for it? Reading level: Baby-Preschool Apparently they are not saying its for pre-teens but preschoolers! Thats a first, a dev book for preschoolers ;D |
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Post by ruthmadison on May 14, 2011 14:42:54 GMT -5
LOL, did you see the product details for it? Reading level: Baby-Preschool Apparently they are not saying its for pre-teens but preschoolers! Thats a first, a dev book for preschoolers ;D Talk about an untapped market! |
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Here I was, half asleep, just trying to find a good book... 
