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    A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People

    Career Romance For Young Moderns: Patti Lewis, Home Economist
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    OMG!!! I love these kinds of novels!!! Where did you find this? I want a million of them! My favorite was about a woman who moved to the big city to become a model: She had violet eyes!!!! But her aunt that she moves in with makes her DO DISHES and she's terrified she'll ruin her nails. So she buys RUBBER GLOVES.


    Oh, those were the good old days...before women had to get botox, wear violet contact lenses and just buy rubbers.

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    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    Isn't this the plot of "The City"?
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    What's the obsession with a "pleasant speaking voice"? Oh, what the 50s would do with my Joplinesque whisky growl.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    Why is Dorcas not a name anymore? It sounds so nice.


    Dorcas. Dor-cas. DORcas.


    See? It's nice.

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    04/03/09

    @..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: DORK-kiss is how my kids would pronounce.
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    Image of LolaQuinn is full of beans LolaQuinn is full of beans
    04/06/09

    @..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: Is it not pronounced like "Dorkus"?
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    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    Ann encounters her boss, Mrs. DeLacey (who "was probably sixty but looked forty, with white hair as satiny as her pearls, a trim, slim, commanding woman"), Chips, and her roommate, the wholesome Dorcas. They move into what, the super explains "apologetically," used to be a loft...


    All four of them moved into a refurbed loft? Odd. But very progressive, in 1950s terms, for Ann and Chips to live together without the benefit of marriage. I suppose Mrs. DeLacey kept any hanky-panky from transpiring.

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    Image of MarissaExplainsItAll MarissaExplainsItAll
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    Thank you Sadie! This book sounds perfect for me! New summer reading list has started early!
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    Image of Princess Leela Princess Leela
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    On orders from the store physician [Minnie] was eating to gain weight.


    Wait, what? No South Beach diet? No Master Cleanse? Does not compute.

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    04/03/09

    @Princess Leela: Also: store physician?
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    Image of waywardgirl waywardgirl
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    So... it's a progressive, pro-Union, career-girl romance set in a doll factory? I am so there.
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    04/03/09

    @waywardgirl: @Princess Leela: Sort of makes you see how freaky today's world really is. Not that I'd want to go back to pre-feminist, pre-civil rights days; I'm no nostalgist. But a 5 minutes look-see on the web and life in 2009 seems positively deranged, doesn't it?


    Union shop. HA!

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    04/03/09

    @waywardgirl: She's doing what I'm in college for! Must Read Book!
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    04/03/09

    @waywardgirl: These seriously need to be reprinted. I never find them in the secondhand shops.
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    Image of tinydundie42 tinydundie42
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    She sounds like a female Michael Scott. But less cool, with more makeup.
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    04/03/09

    @tinydundie42: ...and unlike Michael Scott, she would never be caught dead in a women's pantsuit.
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    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    The name Blake Walton is almost as good as Manley Pointer...
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    04/03/09

    @AJ: I'm picturing Blake as John Boy's evil city cousin.
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    Image of Beat Girl Beat Girl
    04/03/09

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    Oh jesus H. Her hair is making me faint with jealousy
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    Image of SarahMC SarahMC
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    A flair for people, eh? I have the opposite of that.
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    Image of IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
    04/03/09

    @SarahMC: I think that would make an even more interesting book. Just think of all the shenanigans you could get up to!
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    04/03/09

    @SarahMC: Then you'd better read CLASS WITH THE COUNTESS. You'll acquire elegance too.
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    04/03/09

    @SarahMC: MISANDRIC HATER!
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    04/03/09

    @SarahMC: A flair for Androids? Cool.
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    Image of Whiskey and Popcorn Whiskey and Popcorn
    04/03/09

    In reply to A Career Romance For Young Moderns: A Flair For People
    The 2009 version- a flair for bacon. In which young Hamantha finds a job in a diner, falls in love with a pork sausage, fights off some bad ass macon and narrowly escapes being made into an Eggs Benedict- because pigs are like human beings. You must treat them humanely.
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    04/03/09

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    What is this, socialist propaganda? People MATTER?


    (If so, why the makeover? Do I have to be pretty to matter?)

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    04/03/09

    @freudian_slip: Yes, yes you do.
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    04/03/09

    @freudian_slip: I blame Obama.
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    04/03/09

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    Wow, there used to be a time when romance books had lead characters named Ann Roberts, Carole Crane, and Johnny? Now it's a heroine named Desire LeBlanc, who must vie with the nefarious Veronique Merde de Lesseps for the affections of playboy Niccolo Maserati, until Desire comes to her senses and marries the good-natured and hunky stable boy, Brick Haus.
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    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): I think I near hyperventilated at Brick Haus. I am in awe of you.
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    04/03/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): Is this the same Helen Wells who wrote the Cherry Ames series? Because that is a great romance and porn star name.
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    04/03/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): I loved the character of Brick Haus. He was always so mighty, mighty, just letting it all hang out.
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    04/03/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): It's like you've already read my novel! Except you left out Desire LeBlanc's best friend, Magicka LaNegra.
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    04/03/09

    @BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): To be fair, she has SO MANY best friends -- Ella Yella, Fuschia Coocha, Magenty Pawlenty, Siena Miller...
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    04/03/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): I know funny and you, chickie, are funny. Don't forget that in the sequel, Desire's best friend, Honey Pott, hooks up with Brick's best friend, Colt Hardthighs.
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    04/03/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): I love you for this.


    I'm trying to think of the names of Cherry Ames's various suitors. I think they were the kinds of names that were more common then but sound odd now. Wade Cooper, the flier, and Lexington Marius Upham, the intern?

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    04/03/09

    @Mama Penguino: Always the one-syllable names. And better still if they're some virtue or, like Colt, indicative of a desirably masculine animal.


    Except Dake. I'm still puzzling over that one. He was the hero in the second romance I ever read, circa 1994.

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