Meetings, Thoughtcrimes icons, Book of Kells caps, bad books, good book (On Jellicoe Road)

[koalathebear]

I survived my 8 am internal meeting. I had a pile of documents sitting here in English and in Chinese. The changes were marked up but I decided I had to print the Chinese mark-ups in colour otherwise I wasn't going to be able to keep track of the changes. Then we raced over to the meeting at 9am which lasted for three hours and was entirely in

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[petitevanou]

at least has removed images of volcanic mud from my mind

bwahahaha, your review was hilarious :D
So not reading that ;) the book I mean.

I really enjoy a good romance novel too, but rarely read them, too many times they're just daft, which is a shame :(

Once I read one where the actual romance was stupid and boring but the situation the female character was in and trying to cope with was so funny that I still enjoyed the book.

[koalathebear]

Some of the cliches in romance novels are unbearable. If I have to read another description and explanation of an orgasm as la petit mort I'm seriously going to headbang the floor :D

[kiaforrest]

::whispering::

sometimes, half the fun of a romance novel is making obscene barfing sounds & fussing at the characters about how you Really Feel about them - Other times, you just want to spork out your brain and forget Sensitive New Age Guys and Bold, but Tremulous Women were ever abused invented. Once in a great while, a romance novel IS the most relaxing couple of hours in a week, so you can't help but hope This Book will be one of those when you gaze at the blurb.... Like the chocolates with out the label in the lid, sometimes you get the good ones, other times you just want to spit it out but the person who gave you the box is standing right there and you love them, even if you hate their chocolate, so you chew and swallow and try not to hurl at their feet

[koalathebear]

Why are you whispering?

I love the romance novels that I'm totally drawn in, swept off my feet along with the heroine and it's funny, witty and sexy. I hate the romance novels that give romance novels a bad name which is that they're poorly written and stereotypical and appalling like the one above was. 'Nicky' totally deserved to be sporked.

Oooh I forgot about art careers - how about 'writers'? That's always a nice excuse for a career so that the heroine doesn't actually need to do anything. For guys it's usually architect, journalist or self-made business that doesn't actually seem to need any work :D

[kiaforrest]

I was whispering because I was at work ::grin::

I've seen any of those careers we've maligned work - but they sure are RARE. What I really want to read is one where the hero is a bum ::giggle::

[koalathebear]

I'm pretty certain I've read romance novels where the hero is a bum! :D Although usually it's because he's a burnt out former corporate raider who's gone all Walden on us ;)

[ancarett]

Oh, thanks for the link to the Book of Kells caps -- I'm a member of the comm but miss things as they scroll by so rapidly. I will nab that when I'm back at home and prepare a set of icons, wheee!

[koalathebear]

I'm looking forward to seeing them. The post caught my eye because it was something unusual :D

[anonymous]

On the Jellicoe Road sounds interesting - I loved Looking for Alibrandi (book and movie) too although I haven't read Saving Francesca . What was it about the ending of Alibrandi that distressed you? I need to read/watch (or preferably both although I don't have my own copy of either book or movie) it again - doesn't she end up with the "wrong side of the tracks" guy and reconcile with her father? Or do I have my wires massively crossed?

[amaliestar]

Above comment re Alibrandi, On the Jellicoe Road etc was also from me - I thought I was logged in that time!!

[koalathebear]

I liked it a lot.

In Alibrandi, in the movie there's an implication she ends up with Jacob because he shows up on Tomato Day but in the book, he actually leaves to 'find himself' and they break up and it's just awful :P

[amaliestar]

I see I will have to re-read the book. I've just discovered that my uni library has a copy, so it will be the next novel on my list to read :) I read it about ten years ago so I'm a bit fuzzy on the plot details but I remember the movie more since it was more recent. If you've got the fic you wrote about the ending handy it would be nice to read it *hint hint* :)

[koalathebear]

The fic is NC-17 so I locked it. *blush*