![]() To this day it's one of his favorite books. It was Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades. Being an obedient husband (his wife's expletive deleted!), he read the book. One day, after what he's certain was a typically rude remark (you have to understand he'd never read a romance, just looked at the covers and made a snap judgment), she threw a book at him and told him to read it or shut up. He said it so often his daughter started calling them Mommy's "celeste" passion books. ![]() After all, he was reading Dickens, Hemingway, Austen, the classics! He started calling them her "sin, lust, and passion" books. ![]() He admits he was a little supercilious about her choice of reading material. When his wife wasn't cooking or taking care of the children, she was reading a romance. They were everywhere he looked-in the den, on the kitchen table, in the living room, stacked along one whole wall in the bedroom, even in the bathroom. He wouldn't have known what romance was if, after he got married in 1972, romances hadn't started collecting all over the house. If you're still mad, you can blame it on his wife. Leigh is a man! He knows men aren't supposed to write romance, but he does and he doesn't intend to quit. Okay, let's get the hard stuff out of the way right up front. ![]()
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