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Originally Posted by hildea
Not discovered, but rediscovered: Romance.
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Been reading some of the free Choc Lit free Friday books (now owned by Joffe – rhymes with coffee) and bought some too. Some are not actually romance. The Sussex Romance series is actually a cosy murder mystery series set in Regency era.
I've often read books the Wife bought in the past.
I also read Adventure, Detective /Mystery /Spy, some thrillers, Fantasy, SF, Westerns, some Historical fiction, school stories, horse/pony, ballet, some old fiction 17th C. to early 20th C. which often is less rigid in genreness. Even some Westerns like the Riders of the Purple Sage are also romance / adventure/mystery/robinsonade. Zane Grey (a dentist) was inspired by reading the Virginian (not much like TV series, far better), got his wife to teach him about writing, learned to ride and visited the West.
We can maybe lose a bit by big publisher insistence these days on exact narrow catalogue of a story's genre.