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Pottinger writes romance novels. When she was in college, she trekked to Kendall to feed her paperback bodice-ripper habit. “I wasn’t much of partier,” she says. “It was how I unwound...
...statistics: romance novels are read by 51 million Americans. They account for more than half of all paperback fiction sold in the U.S. If you thought feminism, postmodernism and the Internet had done away with the romance novel, think again. The number of romance-novel readers in the U.S. has risen 18% since 1998. One reason: romance novels are changing. Julia Quinn, whose The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown (Avon; 391 pages) tells the story of Ballister and Renminster, is one of the people changing them...
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...
Some of the happy-talk books may help their readers get through one or two dark nights of the soul. But the wisdom they ladle out is often scattershot, anecdotal, an Oprah sermon in paperback. Few of them are written by psychiatrists or psychologists; few are based on solid research...
...nutrition books have made the point as clearly as Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss, which is now available in paperback (Warner Books; $14.95). Nothing about the book is earth shattering. The advice is pretty standard. It's the pictures that will really grab your attention. In essence, what Howard Shapiro, a New York City osteopath with a thriving weight-control practice, has done is to demonstrate photographically the food advice he gives his patients. Through these pictures, Shapiro shows how you can eat a lot of very tasty and satisfying food without gaining weight if you learn...