[ SECRET POST #5496 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5496 ⌋

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[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/8dVIV62.png

[meadowphoenix]

Honestly that sounds fucking awesome. I hope y'all enjoyed yourselves immensely.

[sparklywalls]

I had a Saturday/evening job as a student library assistant when I was about 15-16 and it was almost always wee old ladies who would take out these kinds of books. Never one either, like an actual pile of whatever the maximum loan of books was, think it was 10. They'd bring them back before the 3-week loan was up as well.

Anyway, if it was quiet and I was bored I'd flick through them while on re-shelving duties. Really NOT for me writing wise but it meant I gained a level of mischievous respect for those ladies!

[(Anonymous)]

I worked in a library and later, a bookstore, and I used to do the same thing when shelving/re-shelving books :D.

[sparklywalls]

I would steal a read at a variety of genres if I had the time, but the purple-prose bodice ripper stuff was definitely one of the easiest to do that with because you could skim it so quickly and not really miss any nuance. It's a genre that really does what it says on the tin! Plus if the duty librarian caught you they couldn't really say anything as they had skimmed that stuff too at one point...

The men/boys (of course) I worked with regularly made fun of those ladies behind the scenes and I was too young and new to say anything to counter them. But you know what? Good for those borrowers if that's what did it for them. Women don't die sexually after the age of 40. I'd definitely roll my eyes hard and have a few choice words if I was back in that staff room at the age I am now.

[sabotabby]

If book clubs were more like that, I'd actually want to join one!

OMG... is it bad that I recognize this artwork?

[(Anonymous)]

It's the cover of Virginia Henley's The Dragon and the Jewel a corny historical romance about Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Princess Eleanor (King Henry III of England's sister). I don't remember how purple the prose was in that novel but there's a scene with twin guardsmen and a horny maid...

Re: OMG... is it bad that I recognize this artwork?

[(Anonymous)]

*writes down title*
I wasn't that interested until twin guardsmen and a horny maid

I am filth, and I shan't live in shame!

Re: OMG... is it bad that I recognize this artwork?

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen this cover but never got the name! Thank you anon!!!

I am a liar I been like I've read this one lolol!!! Although I'm likely just misremembering, is this also the one where there is description about his dark hair, the dark hair on his broad chest etc etc lol

Re: OMG... is it bad that I recognize this artwork?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much for sharing the source!

[(Anonymous)]

Aw that sounded like fun :D

I'm in an LGBTQ book club and I really like that you're allowed to bring whatever book you like as long as its LGBTQ focused/related. It means not worrying about finishing a book within a month and they had also allowed graphic novels/manga, as well as talking about any movies/shows if you didn't get round to reading that month.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was in fourth grade, the 4th/5th grade girls had a similar 'book club'! It was a small school, so it was just a handful of girls, and I wasn't really in the in-crowd, but I VIVIDLY remember one day sitting in as a girl read a scene out loud, where the hero basically destroyed the heroine's dress with the star-shaped pins that had been holding it together at the shoulders, and it was THE most scandalous thing I had ever heard. I was shocked that the recess monitors were allowing such subversive activity, but in retrospect, I think the books the girls were getting their hands on were more on the 'a few heated kisses before a fade-to-black' variety...

[(Anonymous)]

Wish there was an adult female book club near me that did this.

[(Anonymous)]

Can I recommend the podcast The Worst Bestsellers. They don't just read romance novels, but every episode features "dramatic readings".

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, but not my thing. I want real human interaction.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to read just the sex parts of my mother's romance books (they were always the mostly fade to black type, but they did sometimes start things at least ) before I graduated to NSFW fanfic and then actual porn. That stuff is how I learned about sex and that it was okay for a woman to want it given that I never got told anything at school other than don't tempt boys and the gestation of babies and my parents didn't give me even a basic sex talk until my junior year of high school.

[(Anonymous)]

My mom worked at a library for a couple decades, and when it was being remodeled, a couple of library staff were assigned to a little storefront where people could pick up books they'd requested and buy books from the library charity booksale that helped fund the remodel.

Since it was only staffed by two people at a time and not always busy, when it was slow, and if my mom got along with the other staff person, they would take turns reading the corniest bits of bad romance novels aloud, and switch when the listener cracked up.

Years later, my mom was checking Fifty Shades of Grey out to someone and she flipped to the middle and started reading out loud at the front counter. All the staff cracked up, but I felt bad for the customer.

[(Anonymous)]

Wholesome.

I did this too and I was in hs in the 80s <3

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like so much fun. Wish I could have found friends to do something like this with!! LOL

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds like so much fun!!!

[(Anonymous)]

The horse on this cover is cracking me up for some reason.

[(Anonymous)]

I share the same mood as the horse in the pic.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, weepingcock, how I miss thee.

...although looking back on the high amount of crackfic that showed up maybe I shouldn't.

[caecilia]

That's cute as hell though.

[(Anonymous)]

Bit late, but thank you secretmaker - absolutely top tier pic!