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Curmudgeoness

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2. I don't think it is just in recent years.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Thu May 1, 2014, 07:03 PM

May 2014

This has been a theme that has often been there. I suppose it is because books are there to help dreams.

My examples:

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)

And those are just off the top of my head.

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Has anyone notices in fairly recent years, protagonists of novels frequently **SPOILERS BIG TIME** [View all] raccoon May 2014 OP

plus Cinderella northoftheborder May 2014 #1

I don't think it is just in recent years. Curmudgeoness May 2014 #2

Good point--perhaps I should've made the OP more restricted. I raccoon May 2014 #3

If I remember correctly Curmudgeoness May 2014 #5

Well, in the case of the Falco mysteries, after Falco raccoon May 2014 #6

I can't say I've noticed it more or less frequently, but when it happens might petronius May 2014 #4

"I Still Dream About You" by Fannie Flagg. It's one of her recent books, and Nay May 2014 #7