Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Happy Springtime! by Roxanne Rustand

After a long, hard winter here in the Midwest, the arrival of spring has been eagerly anticipated.    The sense of new beginnings is upon us!
The snow and ice are finally gone, the grass is starting to turn green, the crocuses and tulips add a cheery, colorful note.  And Easter  is just a few days away.

In thinking about the glorious re-awakening in nature every spring, I found myself thinking about the elements of romance that draw me back, again and again.

I love to read about characters who must struggle through hard times, great challenges--and also overcome emotional damage from the  past that has kept them from enjoying a full and abundant life of love.

New beginnings--a re-awakening to the joy of life, when finding that one perfect person--is a story that never grows old for me.

What about you--what are the elements that you love most?

Do you have an all-time favorite novel on your keeper shelf, that you go back to re-read?




Roxanne Rustand is the author of thirty traditionally published novels with Harlequin, for the Superromance, Everlasting, Heartwarming, Love Inspired and Love Inspired Suspense lines, and now has two indie-published sweet romances available--Comeback Cowboy and Summer at Briar Lake.   www.roxannerustand.com




9 comments:

  1. Finally, it's Spring with flower and warmth, but also rain and thunderstorm. I love novels with family situation and realistic problems that make us 'live' the story with the characters.

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  2. I enjoy romances where the characters need to make choices or compromise so that both can be happy.

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    1. That's the key, isn't it? I think the early 1970-1980 romances were about the young gal and dominant hero, but I like the evolution that has taken place over the years.

      I've picked up some of the oldies at used book stores, but they don't appeal to me nearly as much.

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  3. I enjoy stories where characters overcome what they perceive as deficits to achieve new heights - whether that be love, a task they couldn't imagine before, or a new challenge life has thrown their way.

    My keeper shelf is at the other end of the house (lest I become distracted), but there's a story I love about a cowboy who doesn't know how to read and learns to do so to write the heroine a love letter. I think it won the RITA one year. Love rereading it.

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    1. What a sweet concept about the cowboy wanting to write those letters!

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  4. Since I gave away nearly all my books in the downsize, the two dozen or so I have are all keepers. One favorite I'll mention is "Cluny Brown" by Margery Sharp. Not exactly a traditional romance, but it has a happy, romantic ending. I relate to Cluny, who, in spite of her circumstances and expectations of others, has a cheerful outlook, and is unapologetically herself.

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  5. Love the cute little yellow chicks! They remind me of childhood.

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