“Let’s begin our love reading,” Destinee says. They are sitting in metal folding chairs that have been arranged in a tight circle. To either solidify or dispel my preconceived notions, my wandering into The Bookshop off the street - unaware that a very audible, spirited discussion will take place as I browse for hardcover editions of Updike’s Rabbit novels and Didion’s essays - is in no sense wasted or taken for granted. Through glances at their covers and perhaps an ironic leafing through of their compact pages, I sense a kitschiness that resonates with a certain type of readership, a certain demographic. I have long been interested in the rhetoric and reception of romance genres, though I must admit to not having read a single romance novel, nor do I know anyone who has read one. The book for tonight: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous in Plaid by Suzanne Enoch. Notes are prepared, talking points fleshed out, questions drafted to pose. What these really highly skilled readers do, while sharing wine and cheese, is to gather for one hour of discussion on the third Friday of each month. Readers who in one month get through five or six of the type of book we’re discussing,” Destinee, the leader of tonight’s Really Reading Romance group, tells me.
“What we are is a group of really highly skilled readers, maybe even some writers. Home chefs can attend Saturday Supper Club to discuss a recent cookbook, for example attendees of W(h)ine and Angst are adults who enjoy YA novels Well-Read Black Girl Book Club is just as the name suggests and Stranger Than Fiction focuses on memoirs and “timely” narrative non-fiction.
"One of my very favorite authors.Indeed, the store’s book clubs - all named and branded by Lordson - offer opportunities not only to read across genres broader than merely fiction or non, but also to develop one’s identity politic as a reader. But now that she's decided to find a prospective husband with a bit more polish, could Lachlan finally appreciate her charms? And is it remotely possible to ignore the wild attraction she feels for him? Three months away was more than enough to show her a world infinitely more glamorous than the untamed Scottish Highlands-and her beloved childhood crush. That's just fine with him, as he never had any intention of marrying the lass anyway! Yet how can he ignore the fact that the once rough and tumble Winnie has become a very fashionable-and incredibly desirable-young woman.īrawny, rugged Lachlan is nothing like the aristocratic English gentlemen who pursued Winnie-with a passion-in London. In Mad, Bad, and Dangerous in Plaid by New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Enoch, high-spirited Rowena MacLawry has come to the Highlands after a spectacularly successful debut Season in London, and has made it painfully clear that she's outgrown her girlhood obsession with Lachlan MacTier.
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