Reporting live from Self-Awareness City...

Today, in Readerville, I responded to a post about "Christian Romance Novels. I responded thusly:

Yeah... there's a difference between romance and romance novels... I'm not sure that the one has much to do with the other.

I think it's weird the way Christian hard rock is weird. When something gets reformatted or encoded to market something questionable to a religious demographic, despite that the thing itself isn't in keeping with the ethics of the demographic.

Like when they have suggestive rock lyrics "I want to BE with you ALL NIGHT LOOOOONG!" But if you assume the song is sung to JESUS it's not dirty. It just sounds dirty.

If a Christian romance novel leaves out explicit sex and contains Christian characters, but otherwise FEELS raunchy and sexy... I think that sucks! That's manipulative and I'd review it as such.

Not that any amount of reviews could staunch the tide of crappy romance novels.

I'm announcing this because after, when I looked back at the post, I realized that I came off like a total BITCH!

So I'm confessing now, as I expect to have my ears boxed virtually...

and I want to be able to say, "I knew this was coming!"