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Alright ladies I am in the mood for a love story. Not one of those trashy paperbacks  . But a Jane Austen sort of story. I have read all of hers until I know them all by heart! So please recommend to me a great book to read.... not one but several would be great. (can you tell I am glad to be thru lent and want to move on to spring! Lay under a tree and read a great love story I am such a girly girl  )
I am currently reading Mrs. Mike a biography of a 16yr old girl who marries a Canadian mountie and learns to endure frontier life (a book off of Seton's reading list).
Thanks and God bless,
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I love "The Rosary" by Florence Barclay. It is not Catholic and quite old. Very romantic and good.
I also really enjoy books by Gene Stratton-Porter. I think my favorite is "Laddie".
I can email you more specifics on storylines if you want them. Both bring me to tears with the romance!
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I loved "Freckles", "Girl of Limberlost" and "The Harvester" I have not read "Laddie" I just put a hold on it at the library. And they did not have the other title you mentioned. 
Gene Stratton-Porter stories are so beautiful not just for the "love story" that is so touching but her love of nature in the books. The settings alone make you feel so "cozy" on the inside too. My oldest dd told me about "Freckles" a few years ago and I never picked it up until last fall and I couldn't believe I had missed out on these wonderful stories.
Still hoping someone else has some more suggestions......
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Jackie, if you have liked some of Stratton-Porter's books you will love Laddie! I enjoy her other titles also.
If I think of any more I'll add them. Hopefully others will have some suggestions as I'd love some new titles!
Can't you get "The Rosary" through interlibrary loan? I think you would really love it.
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Jackie,
Have you read all of LM Montgomery's books? She has many lesser known titles, besides Anne-Girl. They are sweet, esp Kilmeny of the Orchard and The Blue Castle (love this one!), also A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill. Of course, there are the Emily and Pat books, too. Lots of love stories in her short stories books, too.
I have one here from the library called "Those Who Love" by Irving Stone. I LOVE this book. I am hoping to reread it. It is the story of Abigail and John Adams, from HER pov. I just loved it.
I am trying to think of more, too.
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I know this is an old post, but I recently finished "Trianon" and "Madame Royale" by Elena Marie Vidal from Neumann Press. It is all about Marie-Antoinette and her daughter, Madame Royal, in the second novel set during the time of the French Revolution. I have never read such good books! Just like a Jane Austin novel. Historical fiction and very accurate according to my history buff husband. I almost cried several times, and the love between Marie-Antoinette and her husband, and all of the self-sacrificing love that was shown by this family and the duty felt to their country and their great love and devotion to the Sacred Heart that is NEVER heard about in secular schools and society is beautifully shown in these books. AHHH, such great books!!!!!! I can't wait to forget them so I can read them all over again!! Some of the details of what happened during the terror were disturbing to read, so be prepared for those grim truths, and I would not leave it lying around where kids could read it just due to those true, but chilling details.
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Thanks Kim, I have those books on my wish list and will now move them to the top of that list! Mother's day is around the corner so maybe I will leave my list laying out .
God bless,
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Thank you so much for this thread! But I have an unusual reason to be thankful
I was looking for books for my boys and happened upon the list in Elizabeth's book. I requested them from the library, meaning to have dd check them out before giving them to the boys. You gals just saved me! I don't think they will quite appreciate "love stories". I'm off now to request other books for them!
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Saw this thread as I was poking around looking for some book recommendations.
Katherine by Anya Seton is a wonderful historical novel that is a "love story".
Medieval England - "Set in the mid 14th C. Katherine de Roet is a convent-raised young woman who, with her sister, comes under the care of Queen Philippa (wife of Edward III). Eventually she becomes the mistress of Philippa and Edward III's son John of Gaunt, and after bearing him four children, becoming his wife. The children's births are eventually legitimized and John and Katherine eventually are the forebears of both the Tudor and Stuart dynasties."
It's wonderful! Couldn't put it down.
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I have been working my way through all of Louisa May Alcott's novels, and I have found them to be fun, romantic reading! They are occasionally a little preachy or moralizing, but I don't mind that at all (in fact, I sometimes think it does me good! ). Anyway, Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom, her "other" sequel set, were probably my favorite so far. They are not as clever as Austen, but they are nice "romances" just the same. Just as in Little Women, the characters in her other novels start out very young, and the first part of the story deals with their childhood adventures and sets up the love stories, which don't usually begin until halfway through or so.
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LMA has many other books and stories........besides the above mentioned set. Oh! Try THE INHERITANCE by LMA.........and then, see the movie..........though they are different somewhat, both are good! Which rarely happens with a movie and its original book :)...of course..........we saw movie first 
we just visited her two homes in Concord.........what fun!
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I LOVE all the books that have been mentioned. I wanted to add that Jane Eyre is one of my favorites, and I know the Bronte sisters were a little odd, but their books are definitly on my list.
Another author I have enjoyed with short, easy read romance/mystery books is Emilie Loring. They are set in the 40's-50's (I think), and I love the sense of the time period in the books. They are older books, so not easy to find, but I enjoy how easily they read, and give a good "romance" fix. 
This thread made me pull out "Sense and Sensibility" which I hadn't read in a while! I am now on the hunt for others by Austen that I haven't read.
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Please don't throw tomatoes at me, but I have just not been able to get into Jane Austen the way that everyone else seems to! I never read any of them when i was younger, but I tried Emma about a year and a half ago. It was OK, but it sure didn't knock me off my feet. I watched the movie; again, OK.
So then I started Pride and Prejudice. I've gotten about halfway through more than once and just ended up reading something else. Not consciously avoiding it, but it wasn't thrilling enough to hold me I guess. I also rented the movie from Blockbuster online and saw the first disc, but the second one got lost in the mail and they've never sent it again! so I'm destined to only know half the story!
I just downloaded the audio version from our library for what is probably the 3rd time, to try it again!
Is there another of her books I'd like better?
I *loved* both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights (JE more) so that type appeals to me. Any other Bronte books I should read?
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You might like Mansfield Park better than Pride and Prejudice. P&P is definitely my favorite, but I liked Mansfield Park a lot. Austen is really a study in characters which is really fun, but can make for a slow read. They are some of my favorite books of all time, but I do see why some people can't get into them.
I won't throw tomatoes at you! I'm always afraid to admit that I don't like Chesterton all that much.
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If you like Pride & Prejudice, I recommend the sequels by Elizabeth Aston: Mr. Darcy's Daughters, The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Althea Darcy, and The True Darcy Spirit. They are a little more racy than Jane's originals, but not as racy and trashy as I have heard some of the other "sequels" are.
Actually, I don't know if racy is the right word. Lets just say that there are a few characters guilty of Maria Bertram's sins. And Aston adds a few fun cameos from old P&P characters like Lydia Bennet, but she is wise enough to pack Elizabeth and Darcy off to India rather than besmirch the reader's memory of them.
I also recommend The Jane Austen Book Club. It's not really a romance and there are some adult themes, but it also really made me look at Miss Austen (as the characters in the book refer to her with reverence) and her works in a new way.
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Karen T wrote:
Please don't throw tomatoes at me, but I have just not been able to get into Jane Austen the way that everyone else seems to!
Is there another of her books I'd like better?
I *loved* both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights (JE more) so that type appeals to me. Any other Bronte books I should read?
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Hi, Karen! NO tomato throwing allowed here!
I have found quite a few people who prefer Persausion over P&P..........my 18 yo dd for one. Another one I really enjoy is Sense & Sensibility.
If you just do not get into the audio version.........just let it go......there is nothing wrong with you 
Now, for other recommendations as "love stories" in the same quality as Jane Austen:
Middlemarch by Eliot......read, and then great movie
Wives & Daughters.........read, and then great movie
The Importance of Being Earnest & An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde are fun.....and like a "male" Jane Austen........they are written in script fromat as they are plays...........but very funny! And, short. He has other plays, too..........I read them in a one volume set with four stories last year....and, more funny movies.
Portrait of a Lady by James Henry
Vanity Fair by Thackery
.......we will keep thinking of more
Now, if anyone reads any of these books because of these recommendations.........DO come back here and tell us........and what you thought about the book.
Enjoy!!
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One of my favorite books is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Gaskell is a writer from Victorian England, and this novel is set in industrial Manchester. It's a wonderful look at the period and also a wonderful romance!
The movie (BBC) is really, really well done, and you can get it from Netflix. Gaskell's other books are good too.
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Kath wrote:
One of my favorite books is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Gaskell is a writer from Victorian England, and this novel is set in industrial Manchester. It's a wonderful look at the period and also a wonderful romance!
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Oh, yes, I second this recommendation!  I didn't think I could find any other love story like Pride and Predjudice or Jane Eyre. It is my new favorite love story.
I recently rented the BBC movie from the library.  I never thought I'd say this but...I think Mr. Thornton ranks up there with Mr. Darcy.
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Amen to that! That final scene, when they meet at the train station . . . <sigh>
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Okay...........you all have just picked out my next book.......though it will be awhile before I can get at it. Up there with Darcy, eh?? You knew how to get me
Just want to add the Gaskell is the author of Wives and Daughters mentioned above.
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