Amish Romance Novels

[low-key]

believe this or not I have read some, there actually quite good with the years there allowed to go wild and yet not being shunned

 

[Cantw8]

believe this or not I have read some, there actually quite good with the years there allowed to go wild and yet not being shunned

Yep, nothing like a good Amish libido read

Ohhhh, zombie thread

 

[believe]

I enjoy reading them. It is nice to read a book where romance doesn't have to equal sex. Most of those I have read are Christian Romance so the Christian morals and insights are in there also.

 

[SookieStackhouse]

I recently caught a movie where Seth Green played an Amish Guy, it was very funny.

 

[Jenemmy]

Oh my heavens -- my Mother is sooooo into this genre of books and I am so glad I am not the only one who finds it funny! Don't get me wrong, I think it's GREAT she has found something she enjoys -- but I picture something like a Harlequin Romance Novel combined with Amish Culture -- Probably not the case at all, but that is the image that pops up in my warped mind.

My mom is all excited because she and her friends are now going on a trip to Amish Country where she gets to spend a day with, and I quote, "Real Amish People!!" And I'm all -- "for the love of God Mom, don't try any of those moves from your books on them!!!!" I can picture myself bailing my Mother out of Amish jail......

And by the way -- no offense to ANYONE who likes these books! Come on, it's not like I don't get crud from people about my slight Disney obsession -- we're all friends here!!!

 

[Lehuaann]

I've actually read a fair amount of Amish books. I think it is refreshing not to have to read about sex, violence and have a ton of swearing in a book. The stories are well written. Most are a fast read for me, but they are engaging.

Sorry you all seem to feel you have to make fun of something that is different from your world.

I've read a few myself, but it's always the biographies, from ex Old Order Amish members, that shock me.

Apparently Amish allow their teenagers to "bed court" by letting a boy creep into the house once all the lights are out, and lie in bed with their daughter. It's supposed to be based on the biblical story of Boaz and Ruth.

 

[MrsPete]

Okay, here's a theory -- art reflects life:

In times of economic upheaval, when people are overwhelmed with too many choices and a rapidly changing world, do some people enjoy reverting -- even in books, films, or other escapes -- to a simpler world?

Here's what I'm thinking:

When I was in elementary school in the 1970s, America experienced inflation, gas shortages, huge increases in mortgage rates, technology was changing the world . . . and what was everyone watching on TV? Little House on the Prairie. A story about a family living a tough life very far removed from our own. A story about a family in simpler times, dealing with less complex problems. Not too much later came The Waltons.

And now that we're again experiencing inflation, rapidly changing technology . . . these books are popular. Again, stories about people in a simpler world, an escape from our own reality.

 

[Tangled4Rapunzel]

*Eagerly waits for Disney to make these into a movie.....*

 

[LisaNJ25]

Hey... if its part of Free Nook Fridays I would download it

 

[okeydokey]

Top ten signs your Amish teen is in trouble…


10. Sometimes stays in bed until after 5 a.m.

9. In his sock drawer, you find pictures of women without bonnets.

8. Shows up at barn raisings in full “KISS” makeup.

7. When you criticize him, he yells, “Thou sucketh.”

6. His name is Jebediah, but he goes by “Jeb Daddy.”

5. Defiantly says, “If I had a radio, I’d listen to rap.”

4. You come upon his secret stash of colored socks.

3. Uses slang expression, “Talk to the hand, ‘cause the beard ain’t listening.”

2. Was recently pulled over for driving under the influence of cottage cheese.

1. He’s wearing his big black hat backwards.

This is the funniest thing I've read in along time!

 

[Michelle67]

Zombie thread or not, I'm glad this one got pulled up because I missed it the first time and some of the responses made me . I love you guys! You crack me up.

As for me, I haven't read any Amish romances, but if I see one on the library sale rack I'll definitely grab it and see what I think after reading this thread. I've read a couple of Christian historical romance books, and enjoyed them. I'm not particularly Christian, but I enjoyed the romantic aspect minus the graphic sexual content that a lot of authors go into these days. I've run across a few "romantic thriller" or "historical romance" type books that IMO were actually soft porn thinly disguised (sometimes very thinly...woefully undeveloped characters and story lines) as something else. I'm just not into that...

MrsPete, I found your comments really interesting.

 

[Jennasis]

I dunno. When I read a book I like the bow-chicka-wow-wow. Keeps things interesting.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Sorry I love them! I like that they are quick reading and clean. But some of your comments make me

Agree....love Beverly Lewis, guilty pleasure.

Some of the visuals you all gave

 

[cntrygal]

Top ten signs your Amish teen is in trouble…


10. Sometimes stays in bed until after 5 a.m.

9. In his sock drawer, you find pictures of women without bonnets.

8. Shows up at barn raisings in full “KISS” makeup.

7. When you criticize him, he yells, “Thou sucketh.”

6. His name is Jebediah, but he goes by “Jeb Daddy.”

5. Defiantly says, “If I had a radio, I’d listen to rap.”

4. You come upon his secret stash of colored socks.

3. Uses slang expression, “Talk to the hand, ‘cause the beard ain’t listening.”

2. Was recently pulled over for driving under the influence of cottage cheese.

1. He’s wearing his big black hat backwards.

3 is wrong if he has a beard he would be married....

 

[golfgal]

Hey... if its part of Free Nook Fridays I would download it

You don't have to wait for Friday, many are free already.

Agree....love Beverly Lewis, guilty pleasure.

Some of the visuals you all gave

I agree--I liked her "Grace" series--a little mystery, a little romance, good storyline....

I still think this tread is funny--especially the T-shirt....

 

[dandave]

I must be living under a rock! I had to use The Google:

Still, simplicity doesn't necessarily mean serenity. In The Secret, Lettie Byler, a troubled wife and mother in a devout Amish home, is, for some mysterious reason, depressed and tearful. Eventually she disappears into the night, in what is "surely the most remarkable tittle-tattle to hit the area in recent years." Englischers (i.e., the non-Amish) might have steered Lettie into a psychiatrist's office for a course of Prozac. But Lettie's large family has other modes of counsel: talking and cooking and harvesting and raising barns and praying together. Her 21-year-old daughter Grace holds the family together with her steely determination; Judah, Lettie's uncommunicative husband, suffers her absence deeply.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1891759,00.html#ixzz1Um8bmSa3

 

[Michelle67]

I dunno. When I read a book I like the bow-chicka-wow-wow. Keeps things interesting.

OH hey, don't get me wrong. I wouldn't be reading any kind of romantic content if I didn't enjoy a bit of that too. I like JD Robb, if that gives you an indication of what I would or wouldn't consider to be over the top. She can be pretty graphic, but that's a couple of "scenes" within a well developed story (my own subjective opinion, of course!). The one or two authors in particular that I've read and was referring to as being over the top, whose names are escaping me right now, are ones that go something like two wild-monkey episodes per chapter, with an extremely poorly developed "plot" vaguely fitting in somewhere between them...that sort of thing. Just not my cup of tea. All I can think is "road rash."

 

[Jennasis]

I must be living under a rock! I had to use The Google:

Still, simplicity doesn't necessarily mean serenity. In The Secret, Lettie Byler, a troubled wife and mother in a devout Amish home, is, for some mysterious reason, depressed and tearful. Eventually she disappears into the night, in what is "surely the most remarkable tittle-tattle to hit the area in recent years." Englischers (i.e., the non-Amish) might have steered Lettie into a psychiatrist's office for a course of Prozac. But Lettie's large family has other modes of counsel: talking and cooking and harvesting and raising barns and praying together. Her 21-year-old daughter Grace holds the family together with her steely determination; Judah, Lettie's uncommunicative husband, suffers her absence deeply.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1891759,00.html#ixzz1Um8bmSa3

Wow. That sounds...like the most unappealing, non-romatic premise for a book ever.

 

[dandave]

Wow. That sounds...like the most unappealing, non-romatic premise for a book ever.

I know! Got the hots for the farmer down the road? Shell some beans! So sick of your husband that you want to run away? Build a barn! Feeling a bit frumpy and depressed? Here's a cobbler! No thanks!