Comments | jmc_bks: The Boyfriend School by Sarah Bird

jmc_bks

The Boyfriend School by Sarah Bird

Jan 12, 2007 18:12

I’ve heard such good things about it. And the premise seemed interesting, a meta-romance, I think it's called, with the narrator entering the world of romance reading and writing. Keishon, in case you’re blog-hopping, I’m not wondering why so many others love it and I don’t. I just don’t -- there’s no accounting for taste, and this book just doesn ( Read more... )

dnf, chick lit, contemporary

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anonymous January 13 2007, 19:18:10 UTC

damn, isn't that book OLD? If it's the one I'm thinking of, I read it before I officially read romances and did not get the book at all. Must be physically perfect male specimen but okay, maybe it's fine if you're not. Or something.

That Keishon blog entry was great. I think I'm guilty of every damn thing she listed, but I loved that thing.

kate r, more reader than writer these days (actually I'm writing like crazy, so it's "more reader than author")

jmc_bks January 14 2007, 15:05:51 UTC

The version in my posession was reprinted in 2003, but the original copyright is 1989.

Whatcha writing? Hmmm?

anonymous January 16 2007, 23:18:41 UTC

Is this the one with the cartoonist named Gus that had cancer? I never read it, but it was made into a movie with Steve Guttenberg and Me" but more recently I've seen it as "The Boyfriend School." I used to love it in HS. devon

anonymous January 16 2007, 23:20:27 UTC

I apologize. I somehow lost part of the comment. The movie also had Jami Gertz and Shelley Long. It was originally called "Don't Tell Her it's Me." Devon

jmc_bks January 17 2007, 00:37:28 UTC

Yes, that's it! I had no idea it had been made into a movie. I'll have to check it out at Netflix!