tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post841417946854561818..comments2024-03-17T20:45:42.848+10:00Comments on Denise Covey: Does What We Read as Teens Shape our Writing Today?Denise Covey http://www.blogger.com/profile/07106490051555233439noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-50657509928457564942010-04-08T14:19:27.529+10:002010-04-08T14:19:27.529+10:00Hi Rachielle. Seems like most of us cut our teeth ...Hi Rachielle. Seems like most of us cut our teeth on M&B at some stage. Yes, dear Barbara Cartland. Interesting story about Isabel Allende. I can imagine it's true having read some of her books. She gets a bit heavy at times!Denise Covey https://www.blogger.com/profile/07106490051555233439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-22510789236726215182010-04-08T08:56:57.720+10:002010-04-08T08:56:57.720+10:00I read Mills and Boone too - now growing up Cathol...I read Mills and Boone too - now growing up Catholic in the Philippines, that was considered taboo reading by the nuns. Then we got to Barbara Cartland with her damsels in distress saved by princes from foreign lands! I read once that the author Isabel Allende was fired from her first job because she rewrote the plots of romance novels - made the females less harebrained and less helpless - when she translated the stories.Rachielle Shefflerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953954064826451304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-20225694876321195832010-03-28T12:49:36.631+10:002010-03-28T12:49:36.631+10:00Huh, yeah, I never got back to M & B. I've...Huh, yeah, I never got back to M & B. I've been to a few Romance Writer's Workshops and realise how much things have changed since I was a girl! <br /><br />Oh and Debs, was interested that there was a Margate in South Africa. I must look at the history...Denise Covey https://www.blogger.com/profile/07106490051555233439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-6343952332758291142010-03-28T07:49:22.218+10:002010-03-28T07:49:22.218+10:00I read M&Bs from the age of 13 - but, as you r...I read M&Bs from the age of 13 - but, as you rightly say, they were pretty tame in those days.<br /><br />:-)Suzanne Ross Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08561888635304578484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-85345329970496931822010-03-25T08:56:50.307+10:002010-03-25T08:56:50.307+10:00Ha, Joanne, I'm still teaching The Great Gatsb...Ha, Joanne, I'm still teaching The Great Gatsby to my senior students. They slowly fall in love with it. His imagery is wonderful...<br />Aurora, my mantra is: life is too short to read a bad book, when there's not enough time to read the good ones...The Jalna series is awesome, set in the wilds of Canada. Think I loved it because of the great characterisation. Maybe the fact that there were so many winter snowy scenes which fascinated me as I'd never seen snow!!Denise Covey https://www.blogger.com/profile/07106490051555233439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-41078491134208836552010-03-25T00:54:57.986+10:002010-03-25T00:54:57.986+10:00Ha! It's funny! My mom used to read the Jana s...Ha! It's funny! My mom used to read the Jana series too in the corner of France...seems like dreams are about the same everywhere!!<br />I never tried them, and don't know most of the authors you are talking about (well - except for Hemingway and Vidal of course!) There are so many books to read!!!!!<br />I am trying not to pick up a new one right now because I NEED to work on my translation. But it's tough.Aurore Labenheimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02733985072615848198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-3626297610112311622010-03-24T20:27:02.735+10:002010-03-24T20:27:02.735+10:00I fell in love with Scott Fitzgerald when I read T...I fell in love with Scott Fitzgerald when I read The Great Gatsby in my early teens. And I remember a phase of reading anything to do with the supernatural. Those books you read at an impressionable age really stick with you don't they.joanne foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12694158807826275846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-11037533326061989892010-03-22T21:40:49.840+10:002010-03-22T21:40:49.840+10:00Lovely. Books (and authors) are like friends, real...Lovely. Books (and authors) are like friends, really, I think...I bought the whole Jalna series by Mazo de la Roche but had to search secondhand shops. Fabulous. That's about 30 books!Denise Covey https://www.blogger.com/profile/07106490051555233439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362528912516506170.post-13766779671012359392010-03-22T18:02:21.823+10:002010-03-22T18:02:21.823+10:00There's also a Margate in South Africa.
I re...There's also a Margate in South Africa. <br /><br />I read Jilly Cooper when I was in my teens and loved her books so much I bought them again a couple of years ago.Deborah Carr (Debs)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03223653554549707595noreply@blogger.com