Word: bridgerton
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...Coop stocks plenty of Pottinger. Except that in print, she is Julia Quinn, a shrewdly chosen pen name meant to place her titles next to the popular Amanda Quick. These days, Quinn titles don’t need help from alphabetization to fly off the shelves. Romancing Mr. Bridgerton, her June 2002 release, was named one of the top ten Favorite Books of the year in an annual poll by Romance Writers of America. Her New York Times best-seller The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown is shelved at the Coop right in the main literature section...
...time and place seemingly constructed solely for mass marketed paperbacks, reminiscent of Sense and Sensibility, but with snappier comebacks. Still, her themes are universal, and have proved more relevant to younger readers than those of her predecessors. Her heroines are not perfect. Penelope Featherington, the central character in Bridgerton, is delicately described as “plump” and “shy,” yet she gets the guy in the end. Pottinger says this wallflower tale comes from her high school experience. Amazon customer reviews and reader e-mails attest that it was their high school...
Writers like Quinn are reinventing the romance novel for the postfeminist generation. Although she hasn't discarded the conventions of romance, Quinn is more than willing to tweak them. In Romancing Mister Bridgerton, her 11th novel, which spent a month on the New York Times paperback best-seller list last summer, the heroine is a plump wallflower. Her hero actually complains, with a sigh, that he isn't "dark and brooding." He is not a sexual predator either. "I can't think of anything in my books that any feminist would find objectionable," Quinn says. "And I consider myself...
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