Through My Glasses

Let’s face it, romantic novels can lie. Choi. Before there was Lai Mohammed, romance novel writers were the original lying liars. *looks around for DSS*. As someone who read her first Mills and Boon novel in Primary 5, and went on to read over 1,000 romantic novels (I kid you not) by the time she left High School in 2004, I believe I have earned the right to say this. During over 8-years romantic novel reading binge, I read everything from Mills and Boon, to all the different categories of Harlequin (Harlequin Super Romance, Harlequin American Romance, Harlequin Presents, Harlequin Medical Romance, etc). I sampled bad ass, extremely descriptive romance novel writers like Elaine Barbieri, Beverly Jenkins, Nicole Hawkins, Robyn DeHart, Adrienne de Wolfe. I read them all. Sometime in University, I finally gave up that romance novel addiction, because they pedaled nothing but L-I-E-S. And yours truly done had enough of them lies. Here are the common lies romantic novels sold to...

An article on www.memefest.org titled ‘LoveAbuse’ has the following as its opening lines: Love: the strongest driving force on the planet. The most abused word in use today. The most inspiring mysterious concept. I agree totally with the second line. Lots of things get abused in the world today but I think this four letter word l-o-v-e easily takes top spot, without question. The evil and stupid things we do in the name of love are absolutely baffling. People blow up places and butcher people into tiny little bloody pieces because of the love they have for a deity. People abuse and maim those they say they love in the name of love. Love is often the reason given when a jealous lover disfigures the object of his/her love with undiluted acid. They love them too much to let them go, they say. People stay in toxic relationships because they are in love and do not want to be alone. It is this same love that makes two people with incompatible genotypes to take the ris...