{"id":8608,"date":"2012-05-08T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2012-05-08T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T14:56:19","slug":"why-do-you-read-romance-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/why-do-you-read-romance-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do you read romance? Or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My belief is that either you&#8217;re born a reader or you&#8217;re not. I was definitely born a reader. I read the moment I could recognize words. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of having a Beverly Cleary book clutched in my hands after a visit to the library where I pretty much tried to clear out everything she had on the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>As I grew older, my tastes grew along with me&#8211;as right they should. I distinctively remember my years devouring Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden and The Bobbsey Twins (okay, that may have been when I was a bit younger). I was into the teen love books at the age of 12 and 13 when my sister introduced to <strong>Harlequin Presents<\/strong>(yeah, I was way young for them). That was my true introduction to romance&#8230;and I was hooked. I&#8217;ve read them every since even as I became a die hard <em><strong>Agatha Christie<\/strong><\/em> fan and read <em><strong>Stephen King<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Scott Turow<\/strong><\/em> and dabbled in <em><strong>Mary Higgins Clark<\/strong><\/em> for a bit. I even read one or two <em><strong>Danielle Steele<\/strong><\/em> novels&#8211;not more me as I didn&#8217;t feel like they read like a true romance.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time, however, that I stopped reading romance. My life was crazy and for ten years I was off romance. Those were my cynical days. I don&#8217;t think I believed in HEAs anymore. But all is right with the world and I do now. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m an ardent believer that there is someone (or even several someones) for everyone. My love of romance novels has&#8211;as you know&#8211;led me to take it up as a career, as a writer of romance novels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about you? When (age) and how did you start reading romance novels? Why do you read romance? If \u00a0you don&#8217;t read romance, why not? Comment and enter to win 2 of the six books below (3 winners). 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