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Post by legion09 on Jul 24, 2009 14:24:23 GMT -5
At what age did you first start reading romance novels? Do you remember the first one you ever? Did you hide it from your parents?
I read my first romance novel when I was 13. I had no interest in them, but one day a girl in my class had one and kept sneaking reads while the teacher was talking. She showed me the book and the cover looked hot. It was a historical romance. She later lent it to me, and I became hooked. Of course I hid it from my parents. I loved reading them at that age mainly for the love scenes, but then I started to appreciate the romance aspect of it. After awhile, the sex scenes became trite and I just skipped over them. To this day I can't remember the name of the book, just that it was about a girl who was forced to marry a man much older than her and he was abusive (also i think he was impotent). They got into an argument and she accidentally killed him. Anyways she later ended up falling in love and marrying the abusers younger brother.
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Post by luvsdemons666 on Jul 24, 2009 15:57:26 GMT -5
Wow, the book is... um... interesting.
I started reading in September of 2008. Yeah I'm really new. But I had always loved the romance scenes of shows and movies. I would even yell at the tv if the show I was watching really didn't have any romance in it. And then, it was a few days before school started, and I saw my sister had the Darkest Night in her purse. I looked over the cover and was sort of interested. And then a couple of days later I went into her room to get her something and I saw it. Next thing I new I was reading it. In a matter or an hour I had like half of the book finished. Then it got to the sex scenes, I immediately closed and tossed it across the room. I couldn't believe that was in romance books. I had always thought it would be like mushy gushy love stuff. But I woke up at 2am and had to finish it. The next morning I told my sister I read and she was like okay. She freaked out a little at first, though but then she let me borrow the second one.
Now she's mad at me because I finished all three of them in a matter of a month and she's still stuck in the begining of the Darkest Kiss. And yeah, I hid it from my mom for a while and then I started reading it(to myself, of course) infront of her and she didn't seem to mind, even after I told her what was in it.
Now my younger sister wants to read them and I feel uncomfortable about it. I mean I didn't start reading them until I was 17 and I feel that's when she should be allowed to(she's 14 now). And she says she can handle it, I don't doubt that. But to me, it wouldn't be fair if she got to experience things before I had. She's already had a boyfriend before me, so she's not reading these books before I did. But of course she complained to my mom, and now my mom is going to have a look through to see if it's okay for her.
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Post by legion09 on Jul 24, 2009 16:11:07 GMT -5
Lol. That's funny. Well at least you all can discuss the books. I loved doing that with my cousins. We all had to hide our books. I used to hide my stash under the bed. I got found out though when I was about 16. My uncle came over and I was being antisocial, locked up in my room with my book, he came in there and I quickly tried to hide the book, but he saw it, grabbed it from me went to show everyone what I was reading. I was humiliated, but thankfully my mom saw it and couldn't care less. She never even said anything to me about. I was finally free to read my books openly.
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Post by luvsdemons666 on Jul 24, 2009 16:19:12 GMT -5
I guess you have a point there about discussing the books. But I think I'd still feel awkward talking to my younger sister about the sex scenes, 'cause I'm sure that will definitely come up at one point or another. Though I do hope my mom says no about not letting her, atleast until she's my age and then I'll be 21 and we can talk away about anything and everything.
I'm guessing are moms really didn't seem to mind either because they had done it when they were younger or they knew that was going to eventually happen and that it was unavoidable.
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Post by donagothika on Jul 25, 2009 22:51:54 GMT -5
My mother always had romance novels to read when I was growing up. . .She use to JUST read the historical romances (you know the ones where they call things members, manhoods and stuff heaves LOL!)
But she would always say I couldn't see them (so OF course that made me EVEN more curious to get my hands on them!). . .I went to the library and looked up in the teen/ya section, (at 8 LOL! I had a campaign going to read my mothers books) what would be the most naughty grown up book I could read then (or at least my reasoning was) I could show my mother I was grown up enough to handle "young woman books (as she called them)". . .
The library gave me "Forever" (you know the Judy Blume book that was practically banned in small town EVERYWHERE when it came out?). . .Well I read it at eight, totally didn't get it, thought it was boring and decided my mother had no taste in reading (then promptly went back to the "Sweet Valley Twins" and "The Baby-Sitters CLub").
At twelve I made a play for romance novel again. . .this time taking them out at the library on my own (my mother doesn't believe in censorship so she never signed off on my library card (which makes your card an "underage" card and then you can't take out anything that isn't in the children's section). So by this time the romance genre was just starting to get into the paranorm sub category (with like genie stories, and princess and the prince stuff)---I still didn't TOTALLY get what a manhood was and why it had to pulse but I did NOW get that the people in the books were "getting on" LOL! But since I have always been a fairy tale type of girl---these stories were right up my alley---sword fights, damsels in distress, and the coveted HEA!
So I started at eight, then restarted at twelve and have been reading them ever since. . .
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Post by legion09 on Jul 26, 2009 9:21:10 GMT -5
haha. Those terms were so lame..member, lance, manhood. I remember the first time I read a Connie Mason book (that woman does not mince words by the way) and saw the word c**k, I was like finally. I also loved it how those virgins only felt a "moment" of pain and then went on to have like 50 friggin orgasms in one day. But yeah, I'm also a sucker for fairy tales and HEA.
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Post by princesswolf on Jul 27, 2009 14:53:25 GMT -5
I started reading romance novels at about 13. They were sooo much better than children's books. Although I did know that they were explicit and all I just couldn't put them down. Glad I didn't.
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Post by dani143 on Jul 27, 2009 16:27:36 GMT -5
so i totally just wrote this whole story that went with me reading my first romance book... but then the stupid timer went off for me to stay logged in  . SOOOOO, i'll tell the story on a later date and just say that i started reading them when i was 14 in my freshman year of highschool, and my first book was Dark Lover by JR Ward. i had a really good story that went with this, and it was actually pretty long, but because i'm mad at the computer right now **sticks out tongue at the computer and mutters : i'll show you who's boss dumb computer! then shakes hand towards the heavens victoriously**, i don't fell like typing it all right now |
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. SOOOOO, i'll tell the story on a later date and just say that i started reading them when i was 14 in my freshman year of highschool, and my first book was Dark Lover by JR Ward.