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[oyceter]

Lately the only thing I seem to be able to read is romantic comedy. So... rec me stuff!

I have just gone on a terrible binge through nearly all of Julia Quinn (rilina, this is all your fault!), whom I have been enjoying because her heroes tend to be less alpha, her couples genuinely seem to like each other, and she's funny. Also, it helps that her later books have been overcoming her tendency to put 100 pages too much at the end.

I am mostly looking for something rather like 1930s romantic comedies, with a lot of banter and extremely likable heroines. Non-alpha heroes are a HUGE plus. It doesn't have to be in the romance genre, although I only want recs for textual things; my brain just cannot concentrate on TV or movies lately. Sadly, this goes for manga too and basically anything visual.

I also enjoy Loretta Chase, Laura Kinsale's comedies, Connie Brockway's comedies, and Jennifer Crusie.

I have kind of bounced off Eloisa James (is she considered funny?). I don't read as many contemporaries because a lot of the romance genre rules work better for me in historicals, but if it is screwball and feminist, I am all for it. I tend to bounce off of adult chick lit because I frequently don't actually find it funny or enjoyable.

... Maybe I should finally start reading Heyer?

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[shana]

Not romance, but light and amusing: Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mysteries. Set in Australia in 1928. When I discovered them, only six were in print in this country so I had to order the rest from Australia, but the US publisher is now caught up.

I do have to wave my hands at the continuity errors between the books (like 1928 seems to have had a few months added into the middle of it) and just what title did her father inherit... But each individual book is consistent.

You should be able to get them at the public library. Cocaine Blues is the first one, but the one that I picked up first that hooked me was Ruddy Gore.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

These eventually got to be too Mary-Sue and inconsistent for me, but I did enjoy the earlier ones a lot. She sleeps around and is ridiculously awesome! Fun!

[oracne]

I've read the first of these - it was a lot of fun. Very fun heroine.

[oyceter]

Thanks! I may skip on the mystery for now; one of the reasons I've been glomming on romance so bad is because my brain can't handle plot. Which tends to leave me completely baffled for mystery ;). But I'll keep them in mind for when I have plot-brain again!