Jude Deveraux

That's really interesting.

I really want to follow up with another question, something that I had thought about quite a bit as I read through like Judith McNaught, Jude Devereaux.

Gosh, I'm missing some others.

I think Garwood might have done this too, but these authors started really in historicals and then like late 80s, maybe 80s.

I'd never heard of Jude McNaughton.

I mean, Paradise and Perfect are some of my favorite books of all time.

I'd never heard of any of them, honestly, outside of maybe Jude Devereaux, maybe Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

And like, I even like polled my mom, who's a big reader.

Her Knight in a Museum, yeah.

But there's another book called A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Devereaux.

which is delightful.

And it's about this woman who is kind of like, she's like an heiress.

So looking at I've got a full shelf with the complete works of Joanna Lindsay.

I also have everything by Julie Garwood, everything by Jude Devereaux and everything by Judith McNaught.

it's i've read one judith mcnaught i've read one joanna lindsey um but i can't and there's i have a judever that i got it i used book sale somewhere on one of my shelves like that i picked up that i've not actually read yet um the older ones i absolutely love them and i love the amount of historical deep like they're really like mine are very sort of like fluffy like modern feeling historicals those older ones they are really historical it's really interesting um the gender politics of them sometimes troubles me.

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