Comments on: If I read about her sparkling blue eyes one more time… http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/ Group author website offers new books, excerpts, biographies, and appearance schedules. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:20:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dianne Castell http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7254 Dianne Castell Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:49:04 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/?p=1883#comment-7254 And it took her only a bazillion pages of the book to figure it out.:-) And it took her only a bazillion pages of the book to figure it out.:-)

]]> By: Lori T. http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7253 Lori T. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:13:59 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/?p=1883#comment-7253 Hi Dianne~ I have to totally agree...what was Scarlett thinking? Rhett was obviously the choice she should have made. Hi Dianne~

I have to totally agree…what was Scarlett thinking? Rhett was obviously the choice she should have made.

]]> By: Dianne Castell http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7252 Dianne Castell Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:19:56 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/?p=1883#comment-7252 Hi, Lori. I know when I read GWTW I felt like I really understood the civil war a lot better. So much different than just studying about it in books. It made it real and from the other side. Though why Scarlett ever picked Ashley over Rhett for all those years is a real mystery. :-) Hi, Lori.
I know when I read GWTW I felt like I really understood the civil war a lot better. So much different than just studying about it in books.
It made it real and from the other side.
Though why Scarlett ever picked Ashley over Rhett for all those years is a real mystery. :-)

]]> By: Lori T. http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7251 Lori T. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:57:41 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/?p=1883#comment-7251 I read with GWTW and I really loved the detail and description in that book. I can remember the feeling of actually being there and seeing what they were seeing. I like to have some of those details and I do want to know what the hero and herione look like. So yep, give me those details. I read with GWTW and I really loved the detail and description in that book. I can remember the feeling of actually being there and seeing what they were seeing.

I like to have some of those details and I do want to know what the hero and herione look like. So yep, give me those details.

]]> By: Dianne Castell http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7250 Dianne Castell Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:40:20 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/?p=1883#comment-7250 Oh, yes, if the guy's in a tux I wanna see. :-) And if he's in jeans I want to know that too. Oh, yes, if the guy’s in a tux I wanna see. :-)
And if he’s in jeans I want to know that too.

]]> By: Jane http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7249 Jane Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:25:36 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/?p=1883#comment-7249 I do like knowing how the hero and heroine look and what they're wearing, but I can understand that these descriptions can get tedious. I don't have to always know what the characters are wearing unless they're at a ball or party. I do like knowing how the hero and heroine look and what they’re wearing, but I can understand that these descriptions can get tedious. I don’t have to always know what the characters are wearing unless they’re at a ball or party.

]]> By: Dianne Castell http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7248 Dianne Castell Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:22:20 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/?p=1883#comment-7248 Hi, Lois. Times have changed and so have books. I have a short attention span too and if a book moves too slow I start flipping pages...even during sex scenes if it's same old thing over and over. I just saw The Proposal and it was set in Alaska and that was great but it could have been any small town. I think description should come in when it's necessary to the story and the plot. If the hero has a scar that could play an important part of the story so deserves mentioning. If not, why mention it at all. Hi, Lois. Times have changed and so have books. I have a short attention span too and if a book moves too slow I start flipping pages…even during sex scenes if it’s same old thing over and over.

I just saw The Proposal and it was set in Alaska and that was great but it could have been any small town.

I think description should come in when it’s necessary to the story and the plot. If the hero has a scar that could play an important part of the story so deserves mentioning. If not, why mention it at all.

]]> By: Lois http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2009/07/15/if-i-read-about-her-sparkling-blue-eyes-one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7247 Lois Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:00:57 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/?p=1883#comment-7247 I have never read QWTW, nor do I really have an urge too, but I think the level of description that you're talking about, would get on my nerves. I can't think of any books that I've read where I thought that, but I imagine there might have been one or two. . . perhaps I'm as guilty with a short attention span as I complain about humanity in general today, but I think we just need enough to know what's going on, enough not said to imagine it for ourselves. If it's going into a few pages, then to me it seems like something is might wrong or something. LOL But this also goes with history and research for historicals too. We're reading a novel, with romance in it. Yep, we want to know what the scene looks like, and we need to know certain facts about the surrounding, both physical and customs, but in the end, it's not a history book. Don't think that was too much description, hopefully! :) Lois I have never read QWTW, nor do I really have an urge too, but I think the level of description that you’re talking about, would get on my nerves. I can’t think of any books that I’ve read where I thought that, but I imagine there might have been one or two. . . perhaps I’m as guilty with a short attention span as I complain about humanity in general today, but I think we just need enough to know what’s going on, enough not said to imagine it for ourselves. If it’s going into a few pages, then to me it seems like something is might wrong or something. LOL

But this also goes with history and research for historicals too. We’re reading a novel, with romance in it. Yep, we want to know what the scene looks like, and we need to know certain facts about the surrounding, both physical and customs, but in the end, it’s not a history book.

Don’t think that was too much description, hopefully! :)

Lois

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