It’s Sexy Book Season | Cup of Jo

When it comes to books, I usually deviate towards a mixture of thrillers, depressing sagas, small strange novels and short stories. But I like to read at high contrast, so after a long intense story, I wanted something light and flirtatious. A friend recommended a series of popular romance, and I immersed myself directly.

I started with the man -selling spines and roses, also known as the sexy fairy books. The first kept me fulfilling 200 pages in advance of the great connection of the cross species, but I was ready to call it a day when it ended. Then a friend said you should move on, so I did it, and the second book was 500 percent hotter. I was reading it on the beach last summer when I saw a woman floating in an inner tube reading the same shiny bluish green book, her children shouted in the sand. She didn’t seem to realize.

After some castes and the brilliant for Halloween (hell, yes), I splashed from another romance, then another. A good romantic novel can make you feel teenage butterflies in your stomach, a lustful falling in love, an attraction for the idea of ​​a motorcycle and the first floating months of falling in love, even if everything is in your head.

I loved the funny story of Emily Henry, which took place in a city in Lake Michigan, not very different from the one who was reading it, draw City. I devoured the lover book by Rochelle Billow, Ruby Spencer’s whiskey Year. I worshiped the red, white and real blue of Casey Mcquiston, which transported me to a land of people rich in the way the crazy rich Asians had done, and it was also fun. My reading club read the schedule of the seven -year slip timeline, which was a beautiful weekend adventure with a gentle assent to Aunt Mame.

I couldn’t help asking some things. Am I reading these books to satisfy an unsatisfied part of my life? Or Reading Romance is just helping to maintain the long game that is the female libido? Many of us need accumulation. We need imagination. I was glad that these books made me think everything. In R/Romancebooks of Reddit, I saw a reader ask another if the book that was discussed was “Hea” (“happily forever”). The reader wanted to make sure he was in a good time, without attached ropes.

My question for my reading club was: “What is the most? romantic Book that has read? “That means a love story that pursues you decades after reading.

Alex Beggs is a writer and editor who lives with his partner in Michigan. His articles have appeared in Bon Appetit, Elle Decor and the New York Times. He has also written for Jo’s cup about his father’s meat cake, the cold cake and (very) days of bad hair.

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