What Makes a Good Romance Novel
♫ Thursday, July 16th, 2009Lovers’ gaze
The basic concept behind it is that the story is usually about the relationship and eventual love between two people and they usually have a happy ending. The “they lived happily every after” theme is very important for most of them. A romance novel usually has certain consistent themes and are grouped together by these themes. They can include a similar setting, time period, level of sensuality, or type of conflict. The companies that publish romance novels usually have a set of guidelines that their authors use when creating new stories.
The real purpose of a romance novel is to provide an escape for the reader from their reality. The person can temporarily ignore their responsibilities and transport themselves into the novel, pretending to be the damsel in distress. They read through the trials and tribulations in book relating to them and anxiously wait for their Prince Charming to come and rescue them. And, to take them away from all their troubles and woos to the place where they will live happily ever after.
The ability to have to live out this fantasy is a way for some people to find a release from their daily grind and the romance novel is one of the best sellers in the market place. They are sold in every grocery, drug, and discount retail establishments around the country. You can even join any number of different books clubs and you will automatically receive the latest new novels each month. You do not have to go out and buy them-they just keep coming until you tell them to stop your membership.
Women hate to admit that they enjoy these romance novels, but there is nothing to be embarrassed about. With over 50 million of them sold every year, someone out there is reading them! True love and romance are a part of our lives and we enjoy knowing that someone out there is experiencing love and romance. Whether you fill the bath tub with bubble bath, lounge by the pool, or sit in your car waiting for the children to come out of school, take a romance novel with you. You will enjoy the story and it will help pass the time. You deserve to take a few minutes from your full schedule to fantasize and lose yourself in a good romance novel.
The Marvellousness of The Kiss
♫ Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Lovers’ gaze
Have you ever thought about why people kiss? It could be a greeting or a sign of affection, but we all kiss.
Kiss through history
We don’t know fully where the kiss came from, it is well known that the kiss has been with us for a long time.
In the sixth century in France, dancing was one way to display affection, but every dance was ended in a kiss.
Apparently, Russia was the first to incorporate the kiss into the marriage ceremony, where a promise was sealed with a kiss.
The Romans kissed to greet each other. On Roman emperor showed a persons importance, by what part of his body they were allowed to kiss, from the cheek to the foot.
In 16th century England, the clove-studded apple originated. An apple was prepared by piercing it with as many cloves as the fruit could hold and then a maid then carried the apple through the fair till she spied a lad she thought worth kissing. She would offer him the apple, and once he’d selected and chewed one of the cloves, they would share a kiss. After that, the apple passed into the man’s possession, and he would venture off in search of another lass to continue the game with.
At one stage it was even thought that people found kissing pleasurable because when the two lips met during kissing, an electric current was generated.
A kiss is a kiss
Now days, kisses range from small pecks on the cheeks as a greeting, to an the use of the lips and tongue as a sign of passion. It is that action that when two people embrace, causes hormones are released into the blood stream, inducing a sense of euphoria that you feed in the sweetness of your lovers mouth.
It’s a kiss that brings every fibre of your being alive, turns your stomach over, sends Goosebumps up your spine. It’s a kiss that forgives your misdemeanours and smiles at your mistakes. Ingrid Bergman puts it together in that “a kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous”.