tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post3607034327240719714..comments2023-10-20T16:03:03.157+01:00Comments on Devouring Texts: Nora, I Love YouLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-19603086685035794932012-09-21T16:35:52.224+01:002012-09-21T16:35:52.224+01:00I'll keep an eye out for that one!I'll keep an eye out for that one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-75733051578356687752012-09-21T11:16:57.226+01:002012-09-21T11:16:57.226+01:00Ooooooh, here we go again. Should we get into ano...Ooooooh, here we go again. Should we get into another Twitter battle where we just quote lines at each other? No? Anyway, as you know, 'You've Got Mail' and 'When Harry Met Sally' are two of my all-time favourite movies. Kathleen Kelly was one of the big influences that made me want to be a bookseller, right from being a little girl... and now I am! Though I have far less patience with children than she does. ;)<br /><br />Okay, just one quote. "I would be proud to partake of your pecan pieeeee". See, now I feel better.Elliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07246472269477492583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-70751899296974433652012-09-20T23:13:00.596+01:002012-09-20T23:13:00.596+01:00Ahhhhhh #dreamlife
Yeah, I just broke out a hasht...Ahhhhhh #dreamlife<br /><br />Yeah, I just broke out a hashtag, THAT'S RIGHT!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-85384132344689820512012-09-20T23:10:55.578+01:002012-09-20T23:10:55.578+01:00Yessss, I sense that You've Got Mail is a very...Yessss, I sense that You've Got Mail is a very good illness film. Very soothing.<br /><br />Hmmmm.... I'm going to have to say I Feel Bad About My Neck is my favourite of the books I've read so far. But honestly, they're ALL great. Even the ones I haven't read, I'm sure are great!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-421661464428270872012-09-20T21:36:08.598+01:002012-09-20T21:36:08.598+01:00What? Nora Ephron wrote You've Got Mail? Witty...What? Nora Ephron wrote You've Got Mail? Witty bookishness and my favourite film to watch when ill. Which of her books should I read?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-12941588929779465042012-09-20T21:13:49.747+01:002012-09-20T21:13:49.747+01:00SLEEPLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
This is why we a...SLEEPLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS<br /><br />This is why we all need to live by each other -- I would grab my DVDs and we would have a slumber party tonight.Reading Rambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614467198216577755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-2627661186727789782012-09-20T18:31:07.326+01:002012-09-20T18:31:07.326+01:00Awww, why would I be mad? I'd be mad if you di...Awww, why would I be mad? I'd be mad if you didn't like them, but I've only just seen half of them myself so... how could I judge?! SiS and YGM are like... pretty much almost as good as WHMS (sooo man acronyms..) but not quite, but still SO SO awesome. They redefine romcoms man! <br /><br />Julie is definitely less swearing-y in the film, and like I said to Alice, there's less sort of... context behind her position, so I get that people are like 'she's SO whiiny!' but I'm just like 'but but but... Rough times!' So yeah. But other than that (which I don't even mind) I LOVE it. Especially Meryl. <br /><br />Duuude, you so need a Nora pack- like Clueless and Mean Girls in one! *hunts one down for you* Yeah, there really isn't one. Or at least there isn't on amazon, which is obviously the only place I can be bothered to look. BUT they are releasing a double book thingy of Nora's 2 earliest essay collections which have been out of print, about which I am VERY excited! (obviouslyyy!)Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-75371187654194962462012-09-20T17:13:34.058+01:002012-09-20T17:13:34.058+01:00OK so please don't be mad but the only one of ...OK so please don't be mad but the only one of these movies I've seen is When Harry Met Sally which is OBVIOUSLY AMAZING. Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail I stayed away from because no one ever made me watch them and romcoms are not my thing so I didn't seek them out. Even now I'm a little ehh on You've Got Mail, but that might be the AOL connotations.<br /><br />I'd like to see Julie and Julia because of course MERYL!! I just never got around to seeing it. One thing that makes me sad (about the movie I haven't seen, so I have no real leg to stand on here) is that I believe Julie is far less curse-y than she was in the book, which was sort of why I loved her.<br /><br />I wonder if someone sells a Nora movie pack thing, cos now I really want to watch When Harry Met Sally but my copy is VHS so alas, that won't work...Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456600806188531803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-43272925369844729072012-09-20T15:58:59.934+01:002012-09-20T15:58:59.934+01:00I'm still kind of sad that I was too sleepy to...I'm still kind of sad that I was too sleepy to watch Sleepless in Seattle properly! I can basically just remember the An Affair to Remember bit and the bit where Meg Ryan hides in the cupboard to talk on the phone which really amused me! I should probably have watched it again before I sent it back to Lovefilm. <br /><br />I understaaand your feelings of You've Got Mail now. Cause it's the only one I've seen of those, so to me it's just like the GREATEST thing, but if I'd seen a freaking musical of it, I may have been like 'WHERE'S THE SINGING?!' I sure don't like to miss out on singing.<br /><br />You know what, I still like the Amy Adams half of Julie and Julia! Cause I kind of really liked Julie thingy in the book Julie and Julia. Cause, ok she's a bit moany, but also her life kind of is falling apart (in the book. In the film that's less clear, so I get why people are like 'GOD, what is her freaking problem?') And Amy Adams kind of saves it in general, cause I likes her!<br /><br />You should definitely watch When Harry Met Sally some more. And then Casablanca. And then When Harry Met Sally again. Totally worth your time.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-25643211845287090272012-09-20T15:53:46.486+01:002012-09-20T15:53:46.486+01:00I don't really think You've Got Mail is fl...I don't really think You've Got Mail is fluffy at all though! Or if it is, it's only the very highest quality fluff. <br /><br />And ohhh, I love when Meg Ryan's character talks about her mother! It makes me want to cry, in a good way. And a bit of a bad way. But *siiiigh* "I was decorating my christmas tree and missing my mother so much I could hardly breathe" *SOB*Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-62838159572355683932012-09-20T14:29:19.135+01:002012-09-20T14:29:19.135+01:00*sobs because of overwhelming love for Sleepless i...*sobs because of overwhelming love for Sleepless in Seattle*<br /><br />"You don't want to be in love; you want to be in love in a movie."<br /><br />"Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and our pathetic need for it is what gets us into so much trouble."<br /><br />I was about to write out like ten quotes, but I WILL RESTRAIN MYSELF -- Sleepless in Seattle is perfect. It is perfect. Sigh.<br /><br />You've Got Mail is based on In the Good Old Summertime, which is based on She Loves Me, which is based on The Shop Around the Corner. And I saw In the Good Old Summertime first (annnd it's a musical), so I was all "WAS IST DAS? What is this remake with the emailing and the short Meg Ryan hair?" I like it better now, but I'm not AS fond of it as I think I would've been if I hadn't seen something else with a lot of similar lines.<br /><br />And haaaalf of Julie & Julia is amazing. The Meryl Streep half. Poor Amy Adams was given the annoying half.<br /><br />OH and I've weirdly only seen When Harry Met Sally like twice? Although I feel like I should be way more familiar with it? Soooo there's that.Reading Rambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614467198216577755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-16193604078102002182012-09-20T13:59:10.072+01:002012-09-20T13:59:10.072+01:00Yup. That about sizes it up - especially the You&...Yup. That about sizes it up - especially the You've Got Mail part. I'm always a little embarrassed to admit how much I love it. It seems too "fluffy" for someone so literate and erudite as me (Ha!), but I love it all the same. My favorite line is when Meg Ryan's character describes her mother as "fine." It is such a good use of the word! And as it is now feeling oh-so-autumnal, I feel like I should watch it again. Maybe tonight!Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01758927721152378470noreply@blogger.com