Yes, that was interesting to learn that Herrington was a huge fan of Harlequin romance novels, and had a collection of such books in her room. She was explaining that these Harlequin romance novels are published in varying levels of steaminess, and she knows how not to buy the more steamy novels by identifying the various ways these books are labeled. So that was interesting to learn more about the formula of such books, wherein about two-thirds of the way through is the most steamy part usually, and you can just open up the book to a place about two-thirds of the way through without even reading the book and find a shockingly steamy passage. So the truth of that fact having been independently verified, there is no reason to continue this dull and uninteresting, tawdry topic of conversation.
In my younger days I had been a fan of the romance novels of Grace Livingston Hill and Emily Loring, the only such books available to us, and also I once read the romance novel written by Mrs. Hodges, wife of the Foreign Missions Department, so that was interesting, how some of the scenarios are based on real places and people that they know.
But nowadays it is hard to know what steamy passage you might run across if you simply buy some random novel in a bookstore. I have made that mistake myself, needless to say, so buyer beware.
