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All of the family’s Kindles are tied to Gordon’s Amazon account.
Gordon: Did you order A NIGHT OF SCANDAL by Harlequin Presents?
Me, defiant: Yes, I did, and I very much enjoyed it.
Gordon: Oh, good. Because if it was thirteen-year old Kid 2, I would’ve been alarmed and possibly horrified, and if it was my ninety-year old grandmother, I’d be embarrassed and weirded out.
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That’s brilliant! I’m glad the only Kindle in our household is mine and mine, alone – and linked to my amazon account.
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Agreed!
Our Kindles are tied to Dustin’s account, so he gets some pretty interesting recommendations because of me. Lol.
I never know and just sort of hope for the best.
I’m with Natasha – it’s a VERY good thing that the only Kindle account in the family is mine! And if you liked A Night of Scandal, I recommend Once a Ferrera Wife by Sarah Morgan. Really enjoyed it (it has lots o’ the HP angst)!
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Heehee.
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Hehehe. Love it!
I admit the kindle frees you up to read some real guilty pleasures LOL
Oh my gosh, that is so funny! We all have our own Kindle accounts but yesterday I didn’t realize that I was on my hubby’s and I accidently downloaded The Mistress of Trevelyan on HIS Kindle. Oops, now I need to go delete it before he has a cow!
BTW, try Harlequin Presents “Trouble in a Pinstripe Suit” by Kelly Hunter — so very fun! I know very little about Malaysia and it inspired me.
The four-year-old uses my Kindle Fire to play games. So glad he can’t read yet.
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Oh, my.. .what would be worse…?
Lol – luckily my little one uses Nook for Kids on my iPad and it edits her book list to only Nook for Kids titles. So she can’t see the steamy ones. My mum is also on my account and can – but then she likes to read them too. I figure turnabout is fair play there since my friends and I used to go back to my house after school in junior high and raid her romance novels for interesting things to read.
That’s so funny! My hubs doesn’t even TRY to serf with my Amazon account, he gets scared!!!!!
Heehee! Yeah, my hubby would freak if he sawso eom the titles on my kindle account. There’s a reason we have separate ones.
I like how you’re defiant about your book choices! XD
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well that was an odd icon…I wonder what this will be?
So, my mother and both my grandmothers all read various types of books, many of them romance (I’m still trying to get my mom to read outside of that genre). But MY 90-year-old grandmother reads the smuttiest of them all. I’m not even kidding. She loaned a book to my other grandmother (who is in her mid-70s) and she told me and my mom, “Barb really like the smutty books! I couldn’t even read it, I was so embarrassed!”
I’ll be honest, I use my kindle to hide my shameful naughty reading. The titles on my kindle would make my mother’s hair go white. They often amuse my husband. Happily it’s all connected to my account. But because I buy the kid’s eBooks on it I get recs like Corduroy and Beast: Taming the Sexual Monster or some such. Odd yet snortgiggle worthy.
The kindle is mine alone. I don’t if its good or bad bu with the kindle we no longer have to hide the covers of what we are reading.
I pick up a free book yesterday that I’m enjoying, its a funny quick read. Much Ado About Madams (Hearts of Owyhee) by Jacquie Rogers. Its the first book of hers I’ve read so will be checking out some of her other titles.
I’ve accidentally made kindle purchases to my dad’s account on Amazon. *grimace* It’s really quite bizarre under recommendations.. all this bluesy music, old b horror movies, and then out of nowhere, Romance novels (the lot of romance novels.. just about every subgenre
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This is why we have my account and then the family account. I did, however, forget to switch accounts on the Fire when I ordered “Let Me In” … oops. I deleted it.
Haha! I’m so glad my 15-year-old’s Nook cannot download anything without putting in the password or I’d probably be absolutely broke right now.
LOL… hey, Gordon! It could be worse… if it had been the 13 year old, it could be the kind of romance books I was reading. And I was 11. *G* Rosemary Rogers THE WANTON. And people wonder why I’m warped. Although that might have something to do with Stephen King’s IT. Read that when i was 11, too.
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^_^ When I was 11, my aunt gave me a copy of Scruples… hardcover. My mom didn’t bother reading it for almost a year and then it got confiscated for a short while! ^_^
I just realized that I could buy Harlequins on my Nook! No more funny looks going through the Wal-Mart / Target checkouts for me anymore! ^_^
I <3 you guys. In a way that is less creepy & more "yes, thank you, I WILL buy everything you produce." I also just realised that it's a short list: you, Seannan McGuire, and Neil. The end. Everybody else gets a "maybe", a "when it comes out in paperback," or an "if the 1st chapter is compelling." This teeny post encapsulates a large amount of the why.
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I hide all my kindle purchases and my hubby doesn’t want to know
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I go back and forth on which is the better model.
With a book, you own it and can pass it to friends and family (or hide it away). You have choices. If you buy your books (or music) in the same way, if two people in the house want to enjoy the same asset, they both need to buy. The cost savings of sharing an account in this new model makes significant financial sense.
So – it is good to know others – like you – share. My wife and I share our apple and amazon accounts for music, apps, and books. But the systems are still really made for single user and thus these purchases blow recommendation engines away.
I really wish Amazon would recognize ‘family’ accounts are a reality and support them – potentially like Neflix did with each family member having their purchases, recommendations, and ideally purchase limits..
THIS! I’ve been waiting for Amazon to figure this out or do parental controls of some sort. My ten year old found an unsecure wireless in the neighborhood, and then promptly downloaded all of my LOTR, and Ender books to his kindle to add to his Star Wars books. Which is totally fine with me, except I know exactly what he had to search through to get to those….. Awkward. There isn’t any way to label or sort or “rated R’ system to sort them. Recommendations are always fun when it is a mix of Sci-fi, romance, Percy Jackson, Junie B Jones, and Curious George.
Now that we watch quite a bit of TV on our Amazon Prime account, this is carried over to those recommendations too. Nothing like finishing a Doctor Who episode, and they recommend Dora.
LOL!
I totally love a good Harlequin Presents! And I’m not ashamed of it! Every once in awhile they are just a really satisfying read, even though I know they are very formulaic.
Ahhh… my local library has an entire wall of uncateloged paperbacks- no checking out requried. It’s like the paper version of a Kindle.
I like to listen to audio books while crafting- but quickly learned to never bring home a romance. For some reason, earbuds and I don’t get along- and crocheting with a cord nearby is often a souce of tangled disaster, so I usually listen through an old tape/cd boom box. Either the hubby walks in and starts mimicking the dialog (“Oh, Studmuffin… she moaned”), or the small children wake up from their naps at just the wrong moment (I REALLY don’t want them hearing, repeating that content!)
Thank God my account is only mine. That would be traumatic for my kids. BAHAHAHAHAHAH
I blame Ilona for my latest addiction. I finally downloaded the first Connie Suttle book last week and I can’t stop reading the fricking series. I just bought the 7th one in the series– less than a WEEK and I’ve read all but that one. LOL
My kindle is tied to my husbands email cause it was a gift. He doesnt have one and his inbox gets the purchase reciept spam. I sometimes texts me “Sigh sylvia, what kinkyness is this!?!?!” …all the better to ambush you with when you get home my dear!
Ha! That’s pretty funny! That’s why I love Kindle! If I were to take those books out at the library and leave them laying around the house, I’d have a lot of explaining to do about the cover “art” to my husband and sons!
lol. Well, if it was grandma, then we could all act like no one knew about it. ;D LOL
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I have to go to my little ones Nook everytime I download a new book and remove it from his because he is only 5 and I don’t know if I can block things from automatically downloading on his or not. Does anyone know if there are parental controls that I can do that on a Nook Color?
I decided to check that book out when I saw it was very affordable via Kindle. I grew up reading my grandma’s Harlequins while on summer vacation (I couldn’t stomach her Westerns after a childhood of Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Bonanza etc). I’ve observed the changes over the years in reaction to the feminist movement (there’s a thesis there for someone). I have to agree with Gordon that these are not for young women, and not because of sexual content. Rather, the way relationships are portrayed put young girls in danger of not seeing the signs of a potential abuser. [spoiler alert!]
Boundary intrusion is one major sign and Nathaniel ignores one boundary after another. Controlling behaviors is another warning sign. Again, this guy is very controlling. While he eventually accepts her “no” in a bedroom scene, he had no business barging in, remaining there, pulling her clothing away from her body, or groping her while pushing aside her underwear. This is a clear example of rape culture. It doesn’t matter that she had a crush on him. He simply did these things without any invitation from her. (In counterpoint, Curran was a gentleman who waited for Kate to resolve her internal hesitation and come to him in that hot tub.) I guess we as readers are supposed to excuse such behavior because of his early history of being abused. (Many battering spouses were abused. No excuse.) As an adult reader I can roll my eyes and read on without taking these behaviors as normal or desirable in a prospective mate. A young girl, reading many such books, is conditioned to see this as acceptable behavior. No wonder dating violence is so prevalent in our culture! I long ago came to terms with the role of romance novels and movies in my own early abusive relationship and my mistaken ideas about how men should behave in the courtship phase (when abuse isn’t yet occurring but boundary intrusion is common). I would not want any child or grandchild of mine to take on these false notions of what romance should be like.
Now, Nathaniel isn’t portrayed as an abuser. That is why these books give such a false impression. A man can do these things and ends up being nice. (And the good, codependent woman helps to fix him in the end. How many of us battered women thought we could fix our spouses?) That is not normally the case in the real world.
I’m not saying the book didn’t have its good moments or that it wasn’t entertaining. It’s just not for young girls even though said girls may come into contact with such books, as I did. I think we ought to examine why we women think it’s so romantic for a guy to burst into our room, and when we clutch at something to cover ourselves, it’s so cool for him to grab it from us and start kissing and fondling us. It’s supposed to be romantic because he’s really hot? So would it be romantic if he were out of shape and not very attractive, or would we finally see it as creepy? These romance novels are supposed to be our fantasy. Maybe we need better fantasies.
Hey Tapati,
This is a very good analysis.
HP’s are not meant to be taken seriously. They are cheap-emotional-melodrama, over-the-top entertainment kind of like soap operas. That’s one of the reasons why they have such silly titles – most young girls would just giggle at that. There are many, many excellent books for YA that deal with issues of abuse and boundaries. HP’s are not those books in the same way that 1940′s Westerns were not representative of life on American frontier. It’s the land of drop dead gorgeous billionaires who whisk frumpy secretaries onto private islands. It’s quite ridiculous, but that’s why it’s a guilty pleasure.
I agree–yet as a young girl I read a boatload of Harlequins and the repetition of themes did affect my notions about how romance works. At that point in time no one was talking about abuse so there was nothing to counter-balance this stuff. If young girls encounter stuff like this and end up reading a lot of it, I think adults in their lives need to have some good conversations with them about it.
Though as a fantasy it fell flat for me. In my fantasy, the star would be kind and respectful or I wouldn’t want to be whisked away anywhere. No matter how hot a guy looks, if he’s rude it’s ruined for me.
Lmao! You guys. lol
that got my husband to laugh. he doesn’t always laugh at what he thinks is funny.
This converstation sounds familiar. Lol I can’t tell you how many times my hubby picks up my romance books and the following happens
Hubby: Really Amanda?
Me: Really
Hubby: You know I will never look like that.
Me: I love you anyways( while I wipe drool off the cover and my face)
Seriously have you seen Jaci Burton’s book covers? Those are good enough to frame. I won’t even get into the content *cough cough*