The Heartbreakers Blog Tour Day 6

In a paragraph or two:
1. Tell us about your most romantic experience (either as an adult or as a teenager).

My high school days were pretty devoid of romance. I had exactly one boyfriend before graduation and we never even kissed. My husband, however, has more than made up for that. I never believed in love at first sight, but the day we met, our eyes locked and something inside me knew he was important. We spent the next few days at a music festival with our mutual friends, falling slowly in love all at once. By the time we came home, that was it. We were engaged a couple months after that and now we’ve been married for over a decade!

2. Which literary character embodies true romance to you?

Calvin in A Wind In The Door. I quote:

“He sent her a brief image of walking silently through the woods, the two of them alone together, their feet almost noiseless on the rusty carpet of pine needles. They walked without speaking, without touching, and yet they were as close as it is possible for two human beings to be. They climbed up through the woods, coming out into the brilliant sunlight at the top of the hill. A few sumac trees showed their rusty candles. Mountain laurel, shiny, so dark a green the leaves seemed black in the fierceness of sunlight, pressed toward the woods. Meg and Calvin had stretched out in the thick, late-summer grass, lying on their backs, gazing up into the shimmering blue of sky, a vault interrupted only by a few small clouds.
And she had been as happy, she remembered, as it is possible to be, and as close to Calvin as she had ever been to anybody in her life, even Charles Wallace, so close that their separate bodies, daisies and buttercups joining rather than dividing them, seemed a single enjoyment of summer and sun and each other.
That was surely the purest kind of anything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a communion so rich and full that silence speaks more powerfully than words.”

Sigh. All the swoons.




Find the Author:
Website | Twitter | Facebook
 

In a paragraph or two:
1. Tell us about your most romantic experience (either as an adult or as a teenager).

Back in college, when my husband and I were friends but not yet dating, he surprised me with an engraved invitation for a date. (This was back when you had to pay someone to create that sort of thing!) I accepted and he took me to dinner, then dancing—because he knew I loved dancing, even though he didn’t, much. I thought that was beyond sweet and was definitely when I started thinking of him as more than a friend!

2. Which literary character embodies true romance to you?

Mr. Darcy, of course! (Especially when I imagine Colin Firth in the role…) The way he was willing to overcome his pride, rethink his priorities and risk censure by Society and his family to be with Elizabeth gives me warm fuzzies every time I reread Pride and Prejudice—which I’ve done a gazillion times!




Find the Author:
Website | Twitter | Facebook
 


a Rafflecopter giveaway