Escape

I read a pretty funny/sad article on the NPR web site titled "Don't Hide Your Harlequins--In Defense of Romance." The author talks about how she fell in love with romances at age 12, and has loved them ever since. The adults in her life w

ere unimpressed: "My mom, a teacher, thought romances were beneath me. My school librarian gave me her disapproving look when I checked out more romances from the bookmobile. And my best friend's mother told me I should be ashamed for reading such trash." Come on in and get an armload of romances we won't give you a disapproving look--escapism at its best!