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[unamaga]

I want a love story. I'm feeling estrogen-y and wibbly and I want a love story. I don't want one of those horrible bodice-ripper, O Fabio! stories, though, which is what always seems to come up when I looks for this sort of thing. 

I want to read a love story that makes you cry and makes you smile and makes you hurt because you want that, you want that. And I don't want it to be a perfect love or an angsty love, I just want it to be love. I want it to happen slowly and gently and creep up on the characters until one day they wake up and wowie, there it is, smack in the face. I want them to be friends first and foremost. I want one of them to make pancakes and the other to sneak up behind them and scare them into getting the pancakes stuck on the ceiling and then there's a permanent stain that always reminds them of their pancake-y love. 

I want them to wake up on Sundays and not have sex as soon as they see each other but sort of lay there and enjoy the sun and the sounds of the neighbor watering his lawn while they crab about who has to take out the garbage. I want to see the affection, the tiny domestic details, like how one of them has a fatal fear of asparagus and the other secretly purchases some and puts it next to the shampoo. I want humor and fun and love and for it to be well written and, damnit, why isn't this book just appearing in my hands? 

Since I really fail at writing and I don't know anyone who will be all "WOO GIMME I WANNA WRITE IT" about this, anyone have any book reccomendations which sort of fall in this vein? I'm open to suggestions.

Comments

hope this serves you

[pruehalliwells.livejournal.com]

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1609808/1/

hope it helps

Re: hope this serves you

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

ff.net ate my comment. :(

An approximation of what I'd said:

"Wow, this is old and absolutely lovely. Thank you for posting, it definitely made my night. ♥!"

Re: hope this serves you

[pruehalliwells.livejournal.com]

glad I could help, tis a good excercise to read up old posts, you should be also able to

[polyspaston.livejournal.com]

Darkling by K.M. Peyton. She's 15, he's....16? Maybe? She lives in the old lodge house at the bottom of the drive to his manor house. Her granpa bought her a racehorse colt for like 500 quid at auction because no-one wanted it. They keep it in the tunnel up to the manor house, blocked off with straw to make a stable. She's watched him for years through her telescope becasue he's beautiful. Then one day he comes down to take the hay bales out of the tunnel and scares the colt and they have Words. Then his dad has Words about the fact they stole his straw. Eventually she begs a paddock off his dad (oh, who keeps racehorses). Her fancyboy gets a job as a lad at some different stables. So does she, and she takes her colt with her.

It takes them a while but they kiss in the stables. They have lovely hesitant first time sex and race horses a bit and also kind of find out they might be related.

It's very good, and beautifully written, and makes you want to go and live in Norfolk. :0D I've read it a hundred times since I was 10 and only just knew what sex was :0P

Oh, OH! Or - read Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley. Just read it. It's fantastically beautiful. Must read that one again....!

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

*writes down in big bold letters for the next time she's at the book store*

YAY! Thank youuuu! :D