Research abstract

A glossary of the paperback romance?

What is your favorite guilty pleasure romance novel? We often hide our ‘smut’ so others will not judge but a book is a book and is meant to be read. By Elyse Graham

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Author Sally Alatalo has broken down romance, so-to-speak. She has published a new romance novel, “Legendary, Lexical, Loquacious Love”, which is simply an alphabetized listing of the words from an older romance novel. While more of a post-modern art piece than a fascinating read, the new version creates a puzzle for the reader, and actually leaves more clues than one would expect!

The writer Sally Alatalo has a way of reading romance novels: dividing the novel into its component words, grouping the total instances of every word together, and arranging them in alphabetical order.

Some plot elements that reveal themselves: he main characters are easy to pick out, as their names appear many times over. And the essential elements of love reveal themselves: words of togetherness and intimacy occur much more frequently than words of separation or triviality. Perhaps this raw, context-free version of the novel is a better expression of real love: not a plot with twists and turns, but rather an overwhelming common thread.

Key takeaways

  1. A new way of reading includes dividing the novel into its component words, grouping the total instances of every word together, and arranging them in alphabetical order.
  2. The reader finds half a page of eyes; almost half a page each for face, voice, and hair; and a quarter of a page for breasts.
  3. More information: no has half a page; never half a page; not two pages; and yes just a quarter of a page.

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