tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post8122702927072573791..comments2024-03-22T19:13:05.266-04:00Comments on The Dusty Bookcase: A Curious Romance about a Closeted, Corseted, Petticoated Poet and His Masculine Twin Sister Brian Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-4494206534339598552018-11-03T16:27:35.175-04:002018-11-03T16:27:35.175-04:00Way too early, I fear. THE CATCH TRAP had only bee...Way too early, I fear. THE CATCH TRAP had only been published in 1979, and then as a mainstream novel rather than as a romance. To this day, I don't believe any of the mainstream romance publishers has a line of LGBT romances.<br />"Orange Mike" Lowreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11873590101675983279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-48550629825971820262018-11-02T17:05:03.088-04:002018-11-02T17:05:03.088-04:00Ha! Very good... and you do raise an interesting q...Ha! Very good... and you do raise an interesting question. Thinking back to the year <i>Maid-At-Arms</i> was published, I wonder if a gay main character would've been accepted by the editors of a mainstream romance line. Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-91940095927338284442018-11-02T11:34:45.295-04:002018-11-02T11:34:45.295-04:00I wonder how Fawcett would've marketed it if N...I wonder how Fawcett would've marketed it if Norton hadn't Straightened things out by the end...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-78143543373884335192018-11-01T17:08:01.333-04:002018-11-01T17:08:01.333-04:00I had good fun with this one, Barb - and there'...I had good fun with this one, Barb - and there's so much that I left out. For example, my favourite scene, in which a tipsy Jenny, as "Captain Welland," very nearly ends up in bed with Monsieur Lecompte, the graceful dancing teacher.<br /><br />"The names of no ladies of either high or low station where ever connected with his, nor could even the most suspicious parent learn that any lady had ever been at his lodgings night or day, unaccompanied, that is, by a chaperone, for Lecompte gave instructions at his rooms as well as in the homes of his wealthier patrons. Certainly he entertained, but young gentlemen mostly, collectively and individually. But, after all, there was nothing wrong with that, was there?"<br /><br />As I say, good fun.<br /><br />Hide it under your mattress!Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-61778984937489963992018-11-01T11:13:29.344-04:002018-11-01T11:13:29.344-04:00Oh. My. Goodness.
Why do I want to read this? I ...Oh. My. Goodness. <br /><br />Why do I want to read this? I know, because your review is so darned funny.<br /><br />I wonder if I can smuggle this in unnoticed? Because I'd have to read it in secret, to avoid unkind comments from my nearest and dearest. They do let themselves go on occasion...<br /><br />Thanks, Brian. (I think.)<br />:-)Barb at Leaves & Pageshttp://www.leavesandpages.comnoreply@blogger.com