More timeless romance
Jul. 28th, 2004 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantI've finished going through my aunt's books. Here's a statistical breakdown:
Total books: 46
Titles containing the word 'fire': 6
Titles containing weather words ('wind,' 'storm,' and so on): 7
Title that covers both bases: Winds of Fury, Winds of Fire
Titles containing the name of a British estate: 5
Silliest estate name: Wyndespelle
Titles consisting only of a woman's first name: 8
Chances that the author's name will be even more overwrought than the heroine's: about 50/50
Most overwrought author names: Gimone, Ariadne, Aola
There should be Romance Novel Cover Bingo.
Cleavage would be in the Free spot, of course, since even if you open the book and find the heroine lamenting her flat-chestedness, on the cover she'll always be courting lower-back pain.
Castle ... ship ... horse ... full moon ... cloak ... Stonehenge ... flames ... Bingo!
Now I've finished listing the books, and caught up on all the reading I missed while I had the Russian death cold, and I'm bored. Almost bored enough to read gen. Almost bored enough to go to bed early. Almost bored enough to write, even. But not quite.
Total books: 46
Titles containing the word 'fire': 6
Titles containing weather words ('wind,' 'storm,' and so on): 7
Title that covers both bases: Winds of Fury, Winds of Fire
Titles containing the name of a British estate: 5
Silliest estate name: Wyndespelle
Titles consisting only of a woman's first name: 8
Chances that the author's name will be even more overwrought than the heroine's: about 50/50
Most overwrought author names: Gimone, Ariadne, Aola
There should be Romance Novel Cover Bingo.
Cleavage would be in the Free spot, of course, since even if you open the book and find the heroine lamenting her flat-chestedness, on the cover she'll always be courting lower-back pain.
Castle ... ship ... horse ... full moon ... cloak ... Stonehenge ... flames ... Bingo!
Now I've finished listing the books, and caught up on all the reading I missed while I had the Russian death cold, and I'm bored. Almost bored enough to read gen. Almost bored enough to go to bed early. Almost bored enough to write, even. But not quite.