Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for February 08, 2016

Laynegg said, yesterday

sigh same old same old…that’s why i quit reading romances. Girl is dumb as bricks, guy is dark and mysterious. Mayhem ensues where if they just opened their mouths and said…same formula for love making (you can only describe passionate kisses and other things so many different ways). Boring. Mysteries are great and yes add a little romance as a subplot but the mystery rules!_____________________________________

In high school, I had an English teacher who loved romance novels. I would openly scoff at them (she & I got along great). She gave me a challenge: read just a few of them over the summer, and in the fall, give my opinion. It just so happened that my mother had picked up a whole box of them (she made side money through a consignment store), so, before she gave the box to the store, she let me have it. I read the first, and it wasn’t bad. Then I read the second…same thing. Third…same. I probably weeded through a dozen, and, aside of names & locations, they were almost exactly alike. In the fall I went back to the teacher. She asked if I took up her challenge. I handed her a list of titles that I’d read, and said, “Yes I did…and they’re STILL lame!”