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27

2008

Doc Turtle Reads a Harlequin

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Tagged: Doc Turtle, Harlequin, Kathleen-OReilly, Literary Criticism
Filed under: Publishing News

Over at the Smart Bitches website, there is a multi part post featuring a chapter by chapter redux of Kathleen O’Reilly’s Harlequin Blaze, Sex, Straight Up, by Doc Turtle. Doc Turtle was challenged to read a category by SB Sarah after Doc Turtle made some snide comments about Harlequin books.

Sex Straight Up was a lovely book, in my opinion, but the liveblogging by Doc Turtle is hilarious.  Beware, though, it’s not for the romance faint of heart. It’s interesting to see the evolution of Doc Turtle’s commentary because while he doesn’t think much of the literary quality of this particular book, but Chapter 7 or so, he is actively cheering for the couple to get together and impatient with their inability to do so.

• Chapters 1-3
• Chapters 4-5
• Chapters 6-10

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Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. She's currently loving contemporary authors like Sarah Mayberry and Kristan Higgins but her first love will always be the historical. Some of her old time favorites are Amanda Quick and Johanna Lindsey and some of the new favorites are Sherry Thomas, Joanna Bourne and Claudia Dain. Email this author | All posts by Jane

2 comments to “Doc Turtle Reads a Harlequin”

1. 1	by Michelle October 27th, 2008 at 11:36 am Who is Doc Turtle, and why should we care what he thinks of a romance novel? (not trying to be snarky) Is he big in the reader blogging community, and I just haven’t heard of him? Reply

2. 2	by Jane October 27th, 2008 at 11:40 am @Michelle – I believe, but could be mistaken, that he has a general interest book blog that is fairly popular. Reply