Girly Crap

[anogete]

After half the people on my flist told me Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is the most wonderful movie, I finally watched it this weekend. Oh my, it was fantastic. I don't know if I swooned more over Michael (Lee Pace) or Joe (Ciaran Hinds).

ccangel42 reminded me of another album I used to own years ago--Joey Lawrence's debut. It was cheesetastic, and I really do mean that. Wanna hear a couple songs?
Justa 'Nother Love Song (my personal favorite on the album)
My Girl
Yes, I really did listen to this non-stop when I was twelve.

I have to run an errand for work, so I'm leaving early. I think I'll just happen to stop by the book store on my way home and pick up Jennifer Cruise's Bet Me since dressagegrrrl recommended it so highly. I like romance novels, but finding just the right novels or authors is such a daunting task in a genre with so many. Rec me romance-ish books if you know of something worthwhile.

Comments

[theredzebra1.livejournal.com]

Re: Ciaran Hinds, I'm such a push over for the older men. *drool*

[anogete.livejournal.com]

He was just so lovely in that film! That moment when they dance and he makes a comment about meeting her before when she looked so differently... Gah. Words can't describe how much I loved that part.

[keladry_lupin]

Michael was sweet and oh-so-sexy in Miss Pettigrew, but it was definitely Joe for me. He was HOT. I liked how he showed Gwenivere his real self -- how he'd lost so many school chums in the war -- and no one else seemed to care.

I didn't like Edythe in the film, because she was really very nice in the book. She had a different love interest and a slightly different career (and a different personality), so there was no need for her to be so awful. Everything else was pretty close to the book, and seeing all the decadent sets and costumes was a delight.

[anogete.livejournal.com]

I had no idea the film and book Edythe were so different! I'm not quite sure why they felt the need to make a villain out of her. I can't imagine it saved that much screen time. As for Joe, I nearly melted in my seat when he and Gwenivere were dancing and he referenced their prior conversation at the fashion show. He followed it up with a comment about her being dolled up and looking quite different didn't change the shape of her body or the depths of her eyes. ::faints::

[keladry_lupin]

The cocktail party before the nightclub wouldn't have taken any longer. Delysia wanted Gwenivere to help Edythe and her beau reconcile their differences, and Gwenivere did so. I think they made Edythe so dreadful because you don't meet Joe until the nightclub in the book. In the film, they built up a rapport over the course of the day, but in the book, they don't meet until 11 p.m. The Joe/Edythe feud made it possible for his eye to wander, and it also gave him the opportunity to come into the picture early in the film.

It's just a pity they thought making Edythe another villain was the best solution. She's really very nice and street-wise in the book.

[shalanar.livejournal.com]

I still have Joey Lawrence's album...and it is still sooooo cheestastic.

[fishchick.livejournal.com]

Bet Me is an excellent book; I'd say it's Crusie's best. If you like historical romance at all, you should check out Eloisa James. Any of her books are good, although I am partial to her most recent series. Lisa Kleypas also writes good historical romance, but you have to be careful because her earlier work is rather uneven. Her Wallflower series is a safe bet, however.

I don't have anyone that writes contemporaries that I recommend as whole-heartedly as Eloisa James. Crusie has other good books, although as with Kleypas her earlier work is weaker than her later books. Kathleen O'Reilly has a good series with the Harlequin Blaze line, but since those novels are serial you will only be able to find them at a used bookstore or through a website that sells used books. Rachel Gibson is good as well.

There's also Norah Roberts. I have only read her contemporaries and a large portion of her "In Death" series, but even her "meh" books are still pretty fab, and some (I'm thinking Angel's Fall here) are great.

Blah, blah, blah.... this is what happens when I get started on romance novels. I can always rec something.

[anogete.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the recs! I really do appreciate them. As luck would have it, I stumbled across a used bookstore several months ago that didn't have what I was looking for, but it did have massive amounts of romance. Actually, nearly the entire store was romance, but I was looking for a couple sci-fi books at the time. I suspect I could find some, if not all, of the books you mentioned there. I like having a place to start and a direction. I was overwhelmed at the choices when I walked into the little place. I didn't know where in the world to begin.

[fishchick.livejournal.com]

No problem. I am always happy to suggest romances; ask me any time if you need ideas. If you pick up any that I mentioned, let me know what you think of them.