Did you know that August is Romance Awareness Month?
I can’t say that I did. To me, August is all about the dog days of summer and
the 3 H’s—hazy, hot, and humid (emphasis on the humid!) But according to the
National Day Calendar (nationaldaycalendar.com), August is also Romance
Awareness Month, thanks to Celebrate Romance founder Eileen Buchheim. She
created the holiday to encourage couples to improve their relationships through
romance all year long.
So how do you observe Romance Awareness Month? You
add more romance into your relationship. Not currently in a relationship? Grab
a romance novel or sit down with a classic romance movie and lose yourself in
someone else’s romance.
Here are the Top 10 Romantic Movies of all time,
according to Rotten Tomatoes
1.
It Happened One
Night (1934)
2.
Casablanca
(1942)
3.
Singing in the
Rain (1952)
4.
The Big Sick
(2017)
5.
The Adventures
of Robin Hood (1938)
6.
The Philadelphia
Story (1940)
7.
Vertigo (1958)
8.
On the
Waterfront (1954)
9.
Carol (2015)
10.
Roman Holiday
(1953)
And here are the Top 10 Classic Romance Novels of all
time, according to Travellingbookjunkie.com
1.
Romeo and
Juliet, William Shakespeare (technically not a novel; it’s a play)
2.
Great
Expectations, Charles Dickens
3.
Gone With the
Wind, Margaret Mitchell
4.
Pride and
Prejudice, Jane Austen
5.
Wuthering
Heights, Emily Brontë
6.
Madame Bovary,
Gustave Flaubert
7.
Doctor Zhivago,
Boris Pasternak
8.
Women in Love,
D.H. Lawrence
9.
The Graduate,
Charles Webb
10.
The French
Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
If you prefer a more recent romantic read that’s both
a tear-jerker and infused with humor, you might enjoy Finding Hope, a past Romance Writers of America Golden Heart
finalist with a plot ripped from the headlines:
Finding
Hope
Hope
Morgan was always the good girl, doing what her conservative parents expected:
she gave up her dream of going to college, became a secretary right out of high
school, and married the boy next door. When Hope is suddenly widowed, she finds
the courage to pursue her own dreams. Twelve years later, after working
full-time and going to school at night, she obtains her degree and is offered a
position at a prestigious architectural firm.
That’s
when her long-exiled libido decides to resurface, and Hope finds herself
falling head-over-heels for Ben Schaffer, her married boss. What Hope doesn’t
realize is that Ben’s marriage is less than ideal. Within days of Hope starting
her new job, Ben’s wife walks out on him and their three-year-old triplets–the
same day the nanny lands in the hospital. When Ben can’t find a last-minute
replacement, Hope agrees to step in as a temporary nanny–not the best decision
she’s ever made, given her raging hormones.
Ben
is fighting a battle with his own hormones, but an office romance is the last
thing he needs or wants. However, he and Hope are no match for three very
determined three-year-olds on a mission to find a happy ending.
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