Reading Report: Latish February 2022

I am still reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. I’m about halfway through, far enough to be invested and motivated to finish it. But, the story has gotten really grim and violent, and it will be hard going from here, I suspect.

I am also reading On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells by Leigh Michaels. It’s roughly 15 years old, so I have to assume that the parts about the publishing market and the categories of romance are no longer entirely accurate or complete. The rest of it looks like it will be helpful, though.

I finished The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (grade B+). The story is about Nik, a writer, whose short-term boyfriend unexpectedly proposes to her at a baseball game, as the whole world watches. She says no, and he gets mad, then storms off. Before she can make a getaway, a camera crew swoops in to make a juicy news story out of her. But Carlos, a kind and considerate doctor who is there watching the game with his sister, sees what’s about to happen. He and his sister step in and rescue Nik from the press. So begins a friendship between Nik and Carlos that soon blooms into romance, but can they commit to a relationship, or do they want to keep it strictly casual? Reading this book, I learned a lot about what I like about romance novels, and what I don’t like, and about how I would have proceeded if I’d written the story myself. It was educational in that way, and entertaining.

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