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dangermousie1. Argh!!!! My big order from Amazon, full of Brit chick lit I was craving, was sent to the wrong address (my fault) and now I have to reorder and argghghghghghghghhgghhgh I want it now! I was never good at patience. I reordered from Alibris and now it will get here by Dec 14 but I want those books now! Especially Tash/Hugo ones. Boooo.
2. I went to see Immortals today and loved it. I can see why it had lousy reviews - it's a very idiosyncratic movie and the story is barebones, but I thought it was amazing - visually like nothing I've ever seen - like feverish paintings come to life - like those vivid nightmarish dreams you have that you half-remember when you wake up. Plus, huge bonus to anything that mentions Titanomachia. And somehow the vibe did remind me of the myths, or at least of the way they made me feel when I first discovered them when I was eight. Plus, I've never seen Henry Cavill in anything but that man is ridiculously gorgeous and masculine at the same time. Mmmmm.
3. I am behind on my dramas. I am just not in the mood somehow. No idea why. But have an Ouran cap dump.
I love them because they make me giggle and ship at the same time.
Like I said.
My favorite scene.
The hosts:
Haruhi interrupts Tamaki's big "I quit" speech and he snaps out of it. Hooray!
I loved this scene in the manga - Haruhi offers some cake to Tamaki and upper crust start muttering how common it is but Tamaki doesn't care. Awwww.
It totally takes this to get them even consider their feelings. LOL. So thick-headed. :)
4. In news of American TV shows (where I am also behind), I've pretty much given up pretending I care for anything but Bridget/Andrew in Ringer. But they are so adorable together! Sure, there is the whole 'she is impersonating her sociopath twin sister who is his wife' complication, but whatever :)
5. To console self for book-shipping fiasco mentioned in (1), I went on kindle and got a Jilly Cooper book to fill my trashy British books quota. I only had two criteria: (1) it had to be on kindle and (2) not involve horses as K&T got me all horsed-out. So I got Rivals, which is set in a fictional English county and revolves around a fight for a television station license (not sure how it works in the UK but I don't particularly mind). The station is run by a horrible backstabbing guy named Tony something, and he finally pisses off enough people that they take him on and try to take the license away from him. It's full of amoral but hilarious people who gladly sleep around and backstab and is v.v.v.v. entertaining. I pretty much adore every character (as long as I don't ever have to meet them) but my favorites, in no particular order are:
* Taggy - the only really sane person in this whole thing (at least so far, I am a quarter in). She's 19, the daughter of a famous television interviewer (who is the one spearheading the takeover). She's dyslexic, has plans for a career as a chef, and as a result of growing up with brilliant but volatile father and self-absorbed, domestically-useless mother, she's pretty much the caretaker. I think she should get whatever she wants, which seems to be a chef career.
* Declan - Taggy's Dad. He's pretty awesome but his taste in women - yikes. Maud, his wife, is pretty much the most spoiled and useless thing ever, even if hilariously entertaining as a character.
* Rupert Campbell-Black - He's in his late 30s (I think), is a cabinet minister and is an unrepentant playboy. He gets involved in the takeover with Declan. I really shouldn't like him because he's got the morals of a cat and pretty much does anything in skirts, but in addition to being hot, he is ridiculously hilarious and entertaining. I mean, I cannot not love him after exchanges like this (Valerie is the resident social climber):
'Sharon's only allowed to watch [TV] occasionally at weekends,' said Valerie smugly. 'When I was young, my sister and I made our own amusements.'
'So did I,' agreed Rupert, 'until Nanny told me it would make me go blind.'
Ahahahahaahaaa.
Because I am a bad person, I peeked at the end and apparently Rupert and Taggy become a couple? (!!!!!!) I am madly curious as to how that would happen as where I am at, she cannot stand the sight of him and he's chasing everything that moves (though thinks she's pretty). Hmmmm. Ever since I read These Old Shades as a teenager, I've been a sucker for 'super-slutty older man falls madly for younger woman who he doesn't think he can have' trope so...anticipating this.
6. From now through New Year's, posting is probably spotty because of a lot of family events and travel. Sorry :)
2. I went to see Immortals today and loved it. I can see why it had lousy reviews - it's a very idiosyncratic movie and the story is barebones, but I thought it was amazing - visually like nothing I've ever seen - like feverish paintings come to life - like those vivid nightmarish dreams you have that you half-remember when you wake up. Plus, huge bonus to anything that mentions Titanomachia. And somehow the vibe did remind me of the myths, or at least of the way they made me feel when I first discovered them when I was eight. Plus, I've never seen Henry Cavill in anything but that man is ridiculously gorgeous and masculine at the same time. Mmmmm.
3. I am behind on my dramas. I am just not in the mood somehow. No idea why. But have an Ouran cap dump.
I love them because they make me giggle and ship at the same time.
Like I said.
My favorite scene.
The hosts:
Haruhi interrupts Tamaki's big "I quit" speech and he snaps out of it. Hooray!
I loved this scene in the manga - Haruhi offers some cake to Tamaki and upper crust start muttering how common it is but Tamaki doesn't care. Awwww.
It totally takes this to get them even consider their feelings. LOL. So thick-headed. :)
4. In news of American TV shows (where I am also behind), I've pretty much given up pretending I care for anything but Bridget/Andrew in Ringer. But they are so adorable together! Sure, there is the whole 'she is impersonating her sociopath twin sister who is his wife' complication, but whatever :)
5. To console self for book-shipping fiasco mentioned in (1), I went on kindle and got a Jilly Cooper book to fill my trashy British books quota. I only had two criteria: (1) it had to be on kindle and (2) not involve horses as K&T got me all horsed-out. So I got Rivals, which is set in a fictional English county and revolves around a fight for a television station license (not sure how it works in the UK but I don't particularly mind). The station is run by a horrible backstabbing guy named Tony something, and he finally pisses off enough people that they take him on and try to take the license away from him. It's full of amoral but hilarious people who gladly sleep around and backstab and is v.v.v.v. entertaining. I pretty much adore every character (as long as I don't ever have to meet them) but my favorites, in no particular order are:
* Taggy - the only really sane person in this whole thing (at least so far, I am a quarter in). She's 19, the daughter of a famous television interviewer (who is the one spearheading the takeover). She's dyslexic, has plans for a career as a chef, and as a result of growing up with brilliant but volatile father and self-absorbed, domestically-useless mother, she's pretty much the caretaker. I think she should get whatever she wants, which seems to be a chef career.
* Declan - Taggy's Dad. He's pretty awesome but his taste in women - yikes. Maud, his wife, is pretty much the most spoiled and useless thing ever, even if hilariously entertaining as a character.
* Rupert Campbell-Black - He's in his late 30s (I think), is a cabinet minister and is an unrepentant playboy. He gets involved in the takeover with Declan. I really shouldn't like him because he's got the morals of a cat and pretty much does anything in skirts, but in addition to being hot, he is ridiculously hilarious and entertaining. I mean, I cannot not love him after exchanges like this (Valerie is the resident social climber):
'Sharon's only allowed to watch [TV] occasionally at weekends,' said Valerie smugly. 'When I was young, my sister and I made our own amusements.'
'So did I,' agreed Rupert, 'until Nanny told me it would make me go blind.'
Ahahahahaahaaa.
Because I am a bad person, I peeked at the end and apparently Rupert and Taggy become a couple? (!!!!!!) I am madly curious as to how that would happen as where I am at, she cannot stand the sight of him and he's chasing everything that moves (though thinks she's pretty). Hmmmm. Ever since I read These Old Shades as a teenager, I've been a sucker for 'super-slutty older man falls madly for younger woman who he doesn't think he can have' trope so...anticipating this.
6. From now through New Year's, posting is probably spotty because of a lot of family events and travel. Sorry :)
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Date: 2011-11-29 01:33 am (UTC)Re: from diorama
Date: 2011-11-29 03:00 am (UTC)Is there a trailer? EEE!
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Date: 2011-11-29 03:05 am (UTC)I don't know, normally the age difference might bother me, but it doesn't here, in part because the power differential is sort of even - despite his vast experience in the sack, it's the first time he's ever fallen in love and he's v.v.v. desperate thinking he can't have her, but also because she never comes across as childish. But mmv. I suspect I am too much of a sucker for the whole "super-seducer brought to his knees by power of love" to really object.
ETA: and the age thing is at least not swept under the rug, people do comment on it. So that's something :)
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Date: 2011-11-29 11:39 pm (UTC)As to how realistic the scenario is in the novel - not at all, I freely admit - but I like my bit of romantic fantasy. This said, there plenty of selfish people who spend their whole lives without loving someone - the fantasy bit isn't that he hasn't been in love in all this time but that he's actually fell for someone now :)
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Date: 2011-11-30 01:51 am (UTC)He was also my first in every sense, a fact which made me very happy, but this is getting into tmi. My culture is more concervative than mainstream American one but it's not a 'premarital sex is a sin' one nor does it go for arranged marriage or similar. And Mr. Mousie is as American as apple pie - so it's still possible even in the 'slutty' world :)
Obviously, by now this discussion has zip to do with the book :)
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Date: 2011-11-29 03:32 am (UTC)Also, love the Ouran cap dump. =D I miss the drama.
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Date: 2011-11-29 03:52 am (UTC)Re. your comment about Kiss & Tell being out. It's the latest book by Fiona Walker so it's the easiest to get your hands on. Her other books are super hard to find (thankfully i have most of them, if not all in paperback) but if you're going to go through them i'd say start with French Relations (the first in the Tash/Hugo series) followed by Well Groomed. The other book i mentioned before, Kiss Chase is just pure wonderful fluff. It'smy fave along with the trilogy. There's also Walker's Oddlode quartet of books which you might want to try afterwards. You get a lot of backstory for Rory and Faith in those. You also get Spurs but i won't say anymore lol.
Other writers... You've probably heard of that Shopaholic film right? Well, the author of the books on which it's based on, Sophie Kinsella, has also written some fab stand alone books which i pretty much think need to be made into J/Kdramas and i pimped them all in THIS POST. I can give you the pdfs of all the books mentioned if you want to read.
Sarah Mason is really good too. Her first three books HERE are great and again, if you want dls then i can give you them. Also check out Jilly Cooper's other books esp. Score!
You should also probably check out Susan Elizabeth Phillips who isn't British but i adore her chicklit. Oh and Lisa Kleypas' modern writing.
There are others but i'd have to dig books out lol.
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Date: 2011-11-29 04:13 am (UTC)I read the first Shopaholic ages ago and liked it. I read some other book of hers (about lying) which I liked. Thanks for the link, will explore :)
I loooooove SEP. Love. Didn't realize Kleypas did modern stuff - I will be on it asap.
I think I will have great fun exploring other Jilly Cooper stuff - Rivals is so ridiculously entertaining (I am about halfway through now).
Thanks for all the recs!
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Date: 2011-11-29 07:09 pm (UTC)Also, for a good book that uses this trope but is fantasy, have you read Lois McMaster Bujold's Curse of Chalion?
Also, I wish someone would just compile the Bridget/Andrew moments in Ringer. It would make watching it so much easier. I don't care about anyone else.
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Date: 2011-11-30 12:33 am (UTC)I love Bujold's Miles books but Curse of Chalion didn't click with me. Seeing it has that trope though, I am going to give it another chance.
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