Woman seeks damages from primary school

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I love them! For pure escapism, you just can’t beat a good Purple Passion trash novel. It’s the same two characters in every book, they’ll be in a 10th century English castle in one and on the prairies of Civil War era Kansas in another. She’s a hightempered beauty with way too much cleavage, and he’s a handsome loner with a dark past. They hate each other when they meet(one chapter) and fight to control the flaming passion that consumes them (the bulk of the chapters) until they succumb to the cascading emotions of desire (the juicy parts) and together, save the day or the castle or the wagon train.

I have three sisters, we are all total junkies for this genre. We’ve tried our hand at writing one of these supermarket lust books, but we can’t take it seriously enough to make it past the first chapter. It’s a good way to pass the time at the beach, and we’ve been doing it for years.

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No car chases and no stuff blowing up???

Why bother...

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The first “grown-up” book I remember reading was “Captive Bride” by Johanna Lindsey.

The next was “Sweet Love, Bitter Love” by (I think) Anna James.

And then I discovered the mother of all bodice-rippin’ authors . . . Kathleen Woodiwiss.

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There’s an entirely acceptable level of violence, but it’s a time-travel series - the heroine travels from 1943 back to 1745 - so car chases are hard to come by.

But the period violence cannot be beat. Bludgeonings, stabbings, shootings, assorted tortures . . . hoo boy!

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I suppose.

One could argue that any attempt to call in another entity to do your bidding is evil.

Better to have the courage to change the things that need changing that you can, work around the things you can’t, and have the wisdom to know the difference...

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;^P

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JK Rowling will be doing interviews on NBC (Today & Dateline) 6/27, 6/28 & 6/29...

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...Just announced...

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One could argue that any attempt to call in another entity to do your bidding is evil.

Like in April when I called Bacon Man and bid him to come to my place and remove the dead squirrel from my foyer?

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Yes. Exactly.

(You should have called me)...

[MacDorcha]

I take no offense at being a man. Thank you!

I only reported what I knew from her talking about it. I passed it on to a woman as well.

I’m “safe” I think. Cooties succesfully avoided, though flew by rather closely! ;)

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We’ve tried our hand at writing one of these supermarket lust books, but we can’t take it seriously enough to make it past the first chapter.

Y'all need to try NaNoWriMo, "National Novel Writing Month". I believe it's in November. Some of the folks in the Hobbit Hole do it every year.

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My Sesame Street days were 1976-1984. I loved them all, but I must admit that my favourite was “The Count”.

Even now, I can hear the music...counting, counting!

There was certainly a “diversity” message even back then, but it was not the strident rhetoric that kids are bombarded with today. I really don’t think little kids that age can get the message unless it is enforced by the parents, but my PBS carried Sesame at 4:30 p.m. every afternoon and that was “making supper” time, and that is why I know the songs more than the characters. I was in the kitchen cooking and could only listen!