I gotta say, clothing sizes have changed enough from the 1980s that a perfect size 6 from 1983 probably IS a current perfect size 4, if not a perfect size 2. I am the same size in men's Levis that I wore in high school in the late 1980s, but have gone from a women's 10-sometimes-an-8 to a solid 6.

So help me god, I want to read one or two of those...I never owned SVH as a kid--it was the sort of books we read at a relative's house.

Yeah, I thought those books sucked when I was the target audience -- my best friend read them all, and I tried one or two and went back to my Agatha Christie.

I missed the SVH fad - it was well after my time.

Susan, I thought about you a little while ago - I was watching a telenovela and they introduced an English character going by "Sir John Lancaster" and the people (in what was then Nueva Espana) kept referring to him as "Sir Lancaster" ... I kept thinking of how it would probably drive you crazy.

I "auditioned" to write for one of the SVH lines once, years ago. And then the chick who was my contact quit and moved on, and I got lost in the shuffle. I had never actually read them either.

Susan, I thought about you a little while ago - I was watching a telenovela and they introduced an English character going by "Sir John Lancaster" and the people (in what was then Nueva Espana) kept referring to him as "Sir Lancaster" ... I kept thinking of how it would probably drive you crazy.

Oh, definitely!

Incidentally, I may have finally found a satisfactory page turner--I'm three chapters along in Conn Iggulden's GENGHIS: BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE, and so far it's well-written, albeit testosteroney, even for me. Ah, well. Jo Beverley has a new release coming out, so I know I'll get to read a good romance soon.

She was a poor relation governess to her cousin's spoiled brat child but made him a model child within days. The hero was a good 15 years older than her, with prematurely steel-gray hair and slate-gray eyes, and he was all crusty and masterly until won over by her spunky good nature.

Hey! Which one is it? And which publisher?

A friend of mine recently got into romances.

As I haven't read one in... years, now, I packed up ten bags of them and delivered them to her doorstep.

Hey! Which one is it? And which publisher?

A very old Signet called THE SERGEANT MAJOR'S DAUGHTER. I think the author was Sheila Walsh.

I am 99.99% certain I have read it. (First, because it sounds familiar; second, because in my early teens, I loved Sheila Walsh. I'm not sure why, now.)

I'm thinking about pulling out some of my old time-travel romances for a reread. I love both the well-known titles, such as Devereaux's A Knight in Shining Armor, as well as the unknowns, such as Nancy Block's Once Upon a Pirate (I think that's the only book she ever had published, which is too bad, because it's excellent), Amy Fetzer's My Timeswept Heart and Timeswept Rogue, and Maggie Shayne's Miranda's Viking (frozen Viking found in the tundra!).