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    Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last

    Written by Patience Bloom

    Narrated by Patience Bloom

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    About this audiobook

    Haven't we all wondered why real-life romance isn't more like fiction?

    Harlequin editor Patience Bloom certainly did, many times over. As a teen she fell in love with Harlequin novels and imagined her life would turn out just like the heroines' on the page: That shy guy she had a crush on wouldn't just take her out-he'd sweep her off her feet with witty banter, quiet charm, and a secret life as a rock star. Not exactly her reality, but Patience kept reading books that fed her dreams.

    Years later she moved to New York City and found her dream job, editing romances for Harlequin. Every day, her romantic fantasies came true-on the page. Patience was an expert when it came to fictional love stories-editing amazing books, she learned everything she could about the romance business. But her dating life remained uninspired. She nearly gave up on love.

    Then one day a real-life chance at romance made her wonder if what she'd been writing and editing all those years might be true. A Facebook message from a high school friend, Sam, sparked a relationship with more promise than she'd had in years. But Sam lived thousands of miles away-they hadn't seen each other in more than two decades. Was it worth the risk?

    Could love and romance conquer all? As with the novels Patience edited for years, listeners will have to wait until the very end to find out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 6, 2014
    ISBN9781480570009
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    Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last
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    Patience Bloom

    PATIENCE BLOOM has been a romance editor at Harlequin for sixteen years. After living in Connecticut, New Mexico, and Paris, she now lives in New York City.

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    • 4/5
      Who better to understand real life romance, love, and marriage than a romance editor at Harlequin, right? Well, yes and no. Romance cannot be forced. It will appear, or not, in its own time. Patience Bloom's new memoir, Romance is My Day Job, details her own search for happily ever after outside the pages of a book. Bloom has been a romance reader for most of her life. She devoured the books, watched the tv shows and movies, and fantasized about when her own Mr. Right would come into her life. Her romantic life has ups and downs from her high school years through college, early career, and into adulthood even as much of the rest of her life unfolds along the path she wants live. Bloom has humorously captured modern dating life and the number of Mr. Wrongs you have to kiss before you find "the One." Bloom deftly portrays high school crushes, the intensity of college loves, the awkwardness of online dating, and the uncertainty of finding love after a certain age. She is honest and forthright about her myriad of disappointing relationships, the destructiveness of fighting for the wrong relationship, the desire to take a break from the pressure of dating, and the wariness that comes from long experience. But she's also honest about the sweetness of a remembered kindness, the glow of a potential relationship, and finally the unexplainable giddiness and joy of finding the right person. The structure of the book is charming as she breaks down the chapters of her life based on the men present in them, comparing them to the heroes in the books she edits, to characters in the shows she watched, and to the stereotypes so prevalent in all forms of the fictional world. Bloom has had some whoppers of bad experiences in her dating life but she's had some pretty universal experiences too and her continued optimism is a nice change from the usual cynical stance about finding love and companionship. While the memoir focuses in large part on her romantic explorations, it also lays bare her relationships, both good and bad beyond repair, with family, her brother, her mother and stepfather, and her father and his wife. All of this adds up to a funny and quick reading book. It is perfect for those who love their happily ever afters in romances but sometimes despair over the lack of realism. A book with the subtitle A Memoir of Finding Love at Last must surely promise the best of both worlds and Bloom does deliver.
    • 4/5
      I give Bloom enormous credit for being very funny and for explaining IN DETAIL the compete picture of her efforts to find her Prince Charming---and in that sense it really is a charming true to life fairy tale although I would like to see another book in about 10 or 15 years with a "this is where I am now" look at her life. How long does one remain a princess? I was most interested in her actual work life even though it was her "day job." Her efforts to tie her life in with characters in movies and books doesn't work too well if you are not familiar with the huge quantity of movies/books she has read and relates to.