Great Scott!
I discovered romance novels young. Early teens and such. And I devoured just about every Harlequin out there like they were Oreos. One down, give me five more. It took me awhile before I discovered the bigger books. The ‘thicker’ ones, which I soon realized were called single titles.
My favorite authors were Sandra Brown and Nora Roberts. And then I discovered this different genre. This genre I couldn’t get enough of. Historical romances. Oh. My. God. Rip my bodice and call me a hooker. Or hooked I mean. I loved this stuff. LOVED it. I couldn’t get enough. I would go to used book stores, check out the cover for a historical looking scene, and buy it. I’m totally guilty of not remembering any of the authors, just reading and moving to the next. My favorite historical books were the Anglo Saxon conflict books. Or anything in the renaissance. Or viking. Or 1800’s western stuff. Or cavemen. Okay, basically anything historical. Well, I lied. Cannot stand, oddly enough, regency.
You know what else was fun? Those time travel books. I loved those. Except the ones where the heroine falls in love with some guy in the past, and the reader gets all attached to him, and then the author tosses the heroine’s ass back to the present where we’re supposed to be satisfied that she meets his descendant. Umm what?
So onto the point of my post, which really ends up miles from where I started, time travel. If you could go back in time and live in another era, where would it be? Or do you feel like you’ve already lived another life? Me, sometimes I wonder on the second question. Things seem familiar. Or maybe I’ve just read too many books. If I could go back, I think I’d love to be in the renaissance period. No matter how disgusting the living conditions. If things got too bad I’d just call up Doc Brown (Back To The Future for those of you who don’t know your 80’s flicks!) and he’d whisk my butt back home.
So how about you? Been there done that? Wanna do it?
November 26th, 2007 at 12:58 am
I think I’ve lived in another life, and it must have been a doozy, cuz now I’m paying penance.
The genealogist in me would like to go back to the early 1900s and talk to my Irish immigrant ancestors and ask them where the hell in Ireland they came from.
Otherwise, the late 19th century.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Bailey, that’s too funny! I’m obsessed with genealogy!
November 26th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Ditto what Bailey said ~ only back to the 1800’s for me. Thankfully, my Norwegian, Danish, and German sides weren’t that hard to track down.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:27 am
I sometimes wonder if I’ve lived before. I have odd recurring dreams about the past. I am in them, yet I am not me.
One dream takes place in Rhode Island during the civil war and I’m married to an obscure Union officer. The other dream takes place in eighteenth century Scotland where I am married to someone with some affluence.
If I could go back, I would only go back for love and would only go back to those time periods. I would love to know how those dreams end.
Tianna
November 26th, 2007 at 1:31 am
Dev, the 1800’s would be a great period to visit too!
Tianna, that’s absolutely fascinating. I would love to have dreams like that! I don’t have dreams, but I’ll have the most random thoughts sometimes. Like: It’s okay if I don’t get married, I’ve done it before and I can skip this round.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:38 am
I used to devour historicals like a crazy woman. It’s how I discovered a lot of wonderful authors.
I loved a time travel book that did exactly what you described (and hated!). If done right, a time travel book makes me happy.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Karen, maybe I just read the wrong ones. They were rather abrupt and you didn’t see it coming. Hmm.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Mark your calendars ladies. The ones in the Here and Now.
Johnny is stumped. I don’t know when i would want to live other than now. Sure I could be a knight, or a Mountain Man, maybe even experience life during World War 2. Hehe then there is the experimentation of the 60’s! Free love right?
But truthfully, I think I am good. 2007 is almost over. It sucked. A lot. I want to really take 2008 and beat that bastard down and make it my beeatch.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Heh, a mountain man, Johnny? Oh yoddle leigh hee who!
November 26th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I’d go back to any era in which the fuller-figured woman was appreciated
November 26th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
C.C. thinks I have bad karma from a previous life. She offered to do a reading about it but I hate to overburden people. I was really happy to hear that though. I was thinking, “Not only do I have chronically bad luck in this life but I was probably an a$$hat in a previous life. That makes me feel so much better.”
November 26th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Given my druthers I’d like to visit Athens while Socrates was around. It would have been a blast talking to that cantankerous old man.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Ava, OMG Amen!
AJ, that’s kind of scary and funny at the same time! I’ve never had a reading. I think I’m too afraid!
Rob, that would be a lot of fun! Great time period too!
November 26th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
I want to go back to the 1920’s, drink bootleg and dance the Charleston in a speakeasy.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Oh! Delia books two tickets back, that sounds like too much fun!
November 26th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
I always want to go back and live in the 19th century, but then I remember they didn’t have drugs for childbirth and that would be a really bad way to die.
Other than than, I do love the historicals. Loretta Chase is my favorite author ever.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Well, you know I’m all about the bodice ripping, lol! I liked the same style, but Woodiwiss and Lindsey, mostly. If I could go back in time, it would be to whenever the chicks were wearing the bodices that were easiest to rip off.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Lillian, as an asthmatic I think about that. If I went back in time I’d surely have a super short life span!
Isabella, heck yeah to the bodice ripping era. Yummy.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:48 am
I sometimes wonder if I have lived a past life. If so, one was certainly as a Viking. Years ago while visiting an Iron Age farm in Norway I had a vision. While I’ve always had vivid, active dreams, I’d never experienced anything quite like this, nor have I since. We were sitting in this reconstructed dwelling listening as the docent instructed us on life during that era based on discoveries made at this dig site when I was suddenly…there.
I was standing in the middle of the farmstead as it once was, looking down towards the sea. I could hear not only the animals milling about, but voices of the people working around me — and in that brief moment could even understand the old Norse at a time when I was still struggling to learn the modern language. It was freaky and exhilerating all at the same time!
November 27th, 2007 at 7:04 am
There are two time periords I would love to experience. Anglo-Saxon England up to 1066. The other would have to be Scotland 1740’s. Maybe I just have a thing for underdogs.
Honestly, since there isn’t a submissive bone in my body, the reality is that I would end up being tried as a witch or something.
But I wouldn’t mind visiting for a day or two.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
where we’re supposed to be satisfied that she meets his descendant.
I actualy love that book–and yes I know what book you’re talking about!
And i actually took a self-hypnosis for past life regression class a while back. It. Was. Weird! I’ll leave you with ancient Japan and Scotland (during a war-yeah like that narrows it down). I had two daughters and we fled on a ship to somewhere.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Shelli-that wasn’t his descendant that was HIM, reincarnated.
I know I have been with my huband before–but this time we got it right. As soon as we met, it was like “There You are.” And we have yet to have a fight, but I’ve had visions and dreams of us having some doozies. I think we worked out all our issues in our past, so this go around is drama free.