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FROM: "Liberty Municipal Library" <lml@lcc.net>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 9:31 AM

Hi,
One of our patrons is looking for "romances where the boyfriend or husband
dies at the end." So, in other words, boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy
dies. If anyone can actually come up with any, I would gladly compile the
list.

Thanks,
Jennifer Brock
Liberty (TX) Municipal Library

FROM: Martha Hansen <marthah@nils.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 9:38 AM

The Horse Whisperer and Message in a Bottle both kind of end that way.
Martha Hansen
Woodstock Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: Liberty Municipal Library [mailto:lml@lcc.net]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 9:33 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Dead Boyfriend


Hi,
One of our patrons is looking for "romances where the boyfriend or husband
dies at the end." So, in other words, boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy
dies. If anyone can actually come up with any, I would gladly compile the
list.

Thanks,
Jennifer Brock
Liberty (TX) Municipal Library

FROM: Paula Davino <pdavino@kentnet.dtcc.edu>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 9:52 AM

Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks. For the record, it's what made me
dislike the book!!

Paula Davino
Assistant Director
Dover Public Library
Dover, Delaware
pdavino@kentnet.dtcc.edu

FROM: "Theresa L. Anderson" <andersont@boulder.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 10:11 AM

Cold Mountain by Frazier certainly works out this way.
Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard as well.

Tessa


Theresa Anderson
Boulder Public Library
Boulder, CO
andersont@boulder.lib.co.us

FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 1/19/01, 10:37 AM

In a message dated 1/19/2001 10:30:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, lml@lcc.net
writes:

<<
Hi,
One of our patrons is looking for "romances where the boyfriend or husband
dies at the end." So, in other words, boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy
dies. If anyone can actually come up with any, I would gladly compile the
list.

Thanks,
Jennifer Brock
Liberty (TX) Municipal Library

>>

Oy. These are not romances (romance usually means the happy couple ends up
alive and together at the end) - they are romantic.

Having said that, I can suggest the following:

Elswyth Thane. Tryst. Girl falls in love with a ghost. The "happy ending"
comes when she's killed and they can be together.

The Bridges of Madison County. Man has affair with married woman. She dies.

The English Patient. Man and woman have affair. Her husband finds out,
crashes plane, causes her death. The lover doesn't end up much better.

Out of Africa. Man and woman have affair. He is killed in a plane crash.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian, who much prefers the traditional happy
endings!

FROM: Lisa Olsen <lolsen@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 11:02 AM

If I remember correctly "A Moment in Time" by Bertrice Small ends with the
hero dying. Reincarnation plays a fairly large role in the story so the
reader is left with the understanding that the hero and heroine had been
together in the past and would be again in the future; it is just this
life that was cut short.


__________________________________________________

Lisa A. Olsen

Information Services

Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
East Regional Library
4809 Clinton Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301-8401

(910)485-2955

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Liberty Municipal Library wrote:

> Hi,
> One of our patrons is looking for "romances where the boyfriend or husband
> dies at the end." So, in other words, boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy
> dies. If anyone can actually come up with any, I would gladly compile the
> list.
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer Brock
> Liberty (TX) Municipal Library
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <LColcord@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 11:09 AM

Binnie is right...a novel where the boyfriend (or husband) dies in the end does not meet the definition of "romance."

That said, I must mention The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee...one of my all-time favorite reads!

Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> lolsen@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us 01/19/01 10:14AM >>>
If I remember correctly "A Moment in Time" by Bertrice Small ends with the
hero dying. Reincarnation plays a fairly large role in the story so the
reader is left with the understanding that the hero and heroine had been
together in the past and would be again in the future; it is just this
life that was cut short.


__________________________________________________

Lisa A. Olsen

Information Services

Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
East Regional Library
4809 Clinton Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301-8401

(910)485-2955

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Liberty Municipal Library wrote:

> Hi,
> One of our patrons is looking for "romances where the boyfriend or husband
> dies at the end." So, in other words, boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy
> dies. If anyone can actually come up with any, I would gladly compile the
> list.
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer Brock
> Liberty (TX) Municipal Library
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Kim Rutter <kim@lvdl.org>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 12:06 PM

Hey, guys, this thread is way bumming me out. You're telling the ending of
several books I had on my long-term "ought to read that" list. Now that I
know they have these rotten endings, I'm probably never going to read them.
. .

Kim Rutter
Lake Villa District Library
Lake Villa, IL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bsbgc@aol.com [SMTP:Bsbgc@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:36 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Re: Dead Boyfriend
>
> In a message dated 1/19/2001 10:30:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> lml@lcc.net
> writes:
>
> <<
> Hi,
> One of our patrons is looking for "romances where the boyfriend or
> husband
> dies at the end." So, in other words, boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy
> dies. If anyone can actually come up with any, I would gladly compile
> the
> list.
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer Brock
> Liberty (TX) Municipal Library
>
> >>
>
> Oy. These are not romances (romance usually means the happy couple ends
> up
> alive and together at the end) - they are romantic.
>
> Having said that, I can suggest the following:
>
> Elswyth Thane. Tryst. Girl falls in love with a ghost. The "happy
> ending"
> comes when she's killed and they can be together.
>
> The Bridges of Madison County. Man has affair with married woman. She
> dies.
>
> The English Patient. Man and woman have affair. Her husband finds out,
> crashes plane, causes her death. The lover doesn't end up much better.
>
> Out of Africa. Man and woman have affair. He is killed in a plane crash.
>
> Binnie Syril Braunstein
> romance novelist/former librarian, who much prefers the traditional happy
> endings!
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 1/19/01, 12:51 PM

In a message dated 1/19/2001 12:09:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
LColcord@ci.glendale.az.us writes:

<<
That said, I must mention The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee...one of my
all-time favorite reads!

Lisa
>>

I cried buckets over that book! I would also cite one of Anne McCaffrey's
"ship who sang" stories, where the "brawn" dies. I don't know which story it
was. (Dennis will know). There's also Jonathan Fast's THE BEAST - his
version of the Beauty and the Beast. He killed off the beast!

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Jennifer Obee <jobee@jefferson.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 3:11 PM

There is a series of three decently short books that would work by Nan
McCarthy. They are called "Chat," "Connect," and "Crash." The ending is
supposed to be a surprise, but they're still decent books, even if you know.

-----Original Message-----
From: Liberty Municipal Library [mailto:lml@lcc.net]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:33 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Dead Boyfriend


Hi,
One of our patrons is looking for "romances where the boyfriend or husband
dies at the end." So, in other words, boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy
dies. If anyone can actually come up with any, I would gladly compile the
list.

Thanks,
Jennifer Brock
Liberty (TX) Municipal Library

FROM: "Bessie Makris" <Bmakris@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 3:59 PM

DYING YOUNG by Marti Leimbach (made into a movie starring
Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott)


Bessie Makris
bmakris@acpl.lib.in.us

FROM: "Bessie Makris" <Bmakris@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/19/01, 4:04 PM

DYING YOUNG by Marti Leimbach (made into a movie starring
Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott)


Bessie Makris
bmakris@acpl.lib.in.us

FROM: "christine downs" <downskreger@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 11:32 AM

message in a bottle


>From: "Liberty Municipal Library" <lml@lcc.net>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Dead Boyfriend
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:32:49 -0600
>
>Hi,
>One of our patrons is looking for "romances where the boyfriend or husband
>dies at the end." So, in other words, boy meets girl, boy wins girl, boy
>dies. If anyone can actually come up with any, I would gladly compile the
>list.
>
>Thanks,
>Jennifer Brock
>Liberty (TX) Municipal Library
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

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FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <LColcord@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 1:41 PM

Binnie,

I'm glad to see I am not the only one on the list that read this book. I have read it about three times and I love it! It is one that I recommend to YAs, also.

Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> Bsbgc@aol.com 01/19/01 11:57AM >>>
In a message dated 1/19/2001 12:09:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
LColcord@ci.glendale.az.us writes:

<<
That said, I must mention The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee...one of my
all-time favorite reads!

Lisa
>>

I cried buckets over that book! I would also cite one of Anne McCaffrey's=20
"ship who sang" stories, where the "brawn" dies. I don't know which story it
was. (Dennis will know). There's also Jonathan Fast's THE BEAST - his
version of the Beauty and the Beast. He killed off the beast!

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Sheryl Groskurth <sherylgr@wplwloo.lib.ia.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:50 PM

Title for the "dead boyfriend at the end" list, but since it's fairly new, I'm
going to scroll down to type the title, like a spoiler, so it doesn't ruin
someone's reading...

S
P
O
I
L
E
R

Gutcheon, Beth
More than you know

Sheryl Groskurth
Waterloo Public Library
Waterloo IA

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