I finally found a book version of the popular 'aliens made us do it' trope
Well, if by aliens we mean 'evil Uncle trying to steal inheritance.'I am currently obsessed with Anna Campbell's Untouched. I really should check out more books of hers, because this, just like Captive...
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Look what is happening next week
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Go, go, Queen Nogook, get it on! (Seriously, I totally ship those two characters).
View ArticleAnd now for a largely disappointing romance novel crop
Sadly, three out of four of these weren't even in the 'so bad it's good' category. No, they were pretty much in a 'cure for insomnia' one. I survived by skimming. Barely. When even the sex scenes are...
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Cheonamdong Alice, Burn Notice and romance novels - a post on things with...
Episode 3 of Cheonamdong Alice owned me. The drama is proving funny (oh, so funny) and touching and complicated and I am ridiculously invested in Moon Geun Young and Park Shi Hoo's characters already....
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I Miss You - eps 9 and 10
These were pretty amazing and surprisingly hopeful.It always takes me forever to post on I Miss You because I find the drama so emotionally absorbing, I need hours of uninterrupted time to watch it.He...
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Cheonamdong Alice, ILY!
Secondary dude pretty much calls our heroine a whore and wants to cut her nightly rate for her. So she throws a glass of water in his face. Go, girl, go!And he throws soy sauce at her (!!!! So much...
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They are both selfish, dysfunctional, from ice-cold families, with little understanding of how healthy relationships work (and what healthy partner choices look like) and I have no idea if they will...
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School 2013 ep 3 and yet more romance novels
I continue to be vastly in love with School 2013. Ep 3 confirmed the following things for me:While I'd love for it to go all Hello My Teacher and hook up In Jae and Nam Soon, I am loving the adorable...
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Schoool 2013 ep 4
OMFG guys, so good! So good! Also, I think I might be slashing Nam Soon/Heung Soo...Before I get to anything else, I simply had to get it out: I knew it! I knew it! I knew Nam Soon was just holding...
View ArticleWe will be seeing The Hobbit this weekend!
We got a babysitter and everything. I cannot wait! Trailer:Very few people reading this LJ realize but I was a complete, obsessive Lord of the Rings fan years before I even had an LJ. I first read the...
View ArticleWhy did nobody inform me City of Bones is being made into a movie?!
There is a trailer and everything:I bet fandom is having the world's biggest conniption due to Cassandra Clare's fraught relationship with it, but I am an unabashed CC fan and adore her Mortal...
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Lucky me...I have strep
Twice in two months, lucky me!Good thing I am on erythromycin (I am allergic to penicillin, which I found out during last time I had strep, as I ended up in the ER after taking augmentin). I am not...
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The Hobbit OMFG!!!!!!
Just back and will do proper post when it's not middle of the night but I loved it loved it loved it loved it! Not as much as LOTR, but then I never liked any movie as much as I did LOTR.Also,...
View ArticleSo, The Hobbit (spoilers behind the cut)
Despite being as sick as a dog and despite the fact that the babysitter cost a small fortune, The Hobbit was so worth it! I am going to try to see it at least once more in the theater if I can, and if...
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Warning: shallow shallow The Hobbit ramblings ahead
I was right that the above launched a thousand slashers - Bilbo/Thorin fics are everywhere! I've apparently been in the fandom too long, because not only does that not surprise me, neither do Kili/Fili...
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First filming still from That Winter The Wind Blows
EEEEEE! That is my most anticipated drama, and not just because of Jo In Sung, back to dramaworld after 8 (!!!!!) years. The whole set-up of a gambler in debt to the mob trying to use a blind heiress...
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Miracles do happen because Cheonamdong Alice continues to be perfect. Ep 5 is the most adorable thing ever!
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Cheonamdong Alice is making me so full of feelings...
Episodes 5 and 6 were so adorable and I love how Seung Jo and Han Se are bonding - he told her his name! she taught him hi-fives! (I love how adorably alien he is sometimes)! And I love how because she...
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I saw the preview for ep 13 of I Miss You.!!!!!!!!!!!EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!Yes, I realize I am grievously behind on both replies and IMY eps 11-12 post but I simply had to squee.
View ArticleDownton Abbey - initial impressions
I've watched bits of DA now and then but this is the first time I've actually sat down and watched an episode properly - in this case, the premiere of s1. Am I going to be torn limb from limb if I say...
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