I find him incredibly attractive.

Loathed it. You are spot on about her imo. I hated that “random famous person would be on my side in the divorce” nonsense. Ugh.

How about delicious anticipation tempered with bitter disappointment? That would describe most dates I’ve had through the interweb.

It took me and my dad a season and a half to figure out that the full name of the player called “Tiff” in the rugby team we support was Christopher. We discussed it at length several times previously and just decided he had eccentric parents who had perhaps been determined to have a girl named Tiffany.

Eeeeeep. That would be worse than the face of bees!!

Oh gosh, I have never heard of it but that image alone might well give me nightmares! I did wonder what AllieCat was referencing but a man with a face of bees was not what I was expecting!

That image is horrifying. What is it from?

Showmance!

I definitely haven't! It sounds exhausting, frankly!

Wow! Thanks for the info. My main take away from this is daily?!? Filming, working out, and recreational activities every day? That is someone with good time management.

Wait, what, is this true? Was this when he was single?

Georgette Heyer for vintage romance? I am reading ‘Friday’s Child’ at the moment and it is charming.

You are missing out. I agree, they are an excellent lollipop. Squidgy but also sucky.

* British lollipops.

Definitely not a teenager! And yeah, I get that feeling sometimes, but I teach secondary school English so I always preempt it by saying “I love it but it is also great as it means I can talk about books with my classes and make recommendations.” but I intensely dislike that judgy sense you get from some people so…

I thought it looked like quis not quia. Not sure if that makes it grammatically better, I am so rusty.

I really enjoyed (maybe that is the wrong word) Asking For It by Louise O’Neill. It is a great YA novel about rape culture. I discussed it with someone else on the Mandy Moore thread but I am not going to link to it because it is very spoilery.

They confiscated your novel? Did you get it back? What were you supposed to do when you were waiting?

Hope it all turns out ok, Tina!

Hi! So I bought this on Saturday - a bookshop was heavily promoting the novels nominated for some YA award. I read the first few pages in the shop and like you found it hard to get into - in trying to avoid an info dump there wasn’t enough exposition, imo, - I kept having to go back and check who was who and who the…