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For the love of great romcoms

From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow

February 21, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I love romantic comedies. It’s the same reason I love Romance novels, I’m sure. There’s a joy in knowing that the end of the story is going to be happy, and that you’ll be treated to laughs along the way. They are my re-charge kind of story. When I saw Ellesfena’s review last year I plunked Scott Meslow’s From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy on my to read list. When putting in my library requests this […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: from hollywood with love, hollywood history, movies, romcoms, romcoms can never hurt you, Scott Meslow

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: from hollywood with love, hollywood history, movies, romcoms, romcoms can never hurt you, Scott Meslow ·
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the great 2022 Bingo Catch-Up!

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

From Hollywood, With Love by Scott Meslow

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer

August 7, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 1 Comment

It wouldn’t be CBR Bingo without me frantically catching up on everything I read but was too distracted to write about, now would it? Square: Cold – Fool Moon – DNF This is it, folks- my first DNF in YEARS! I just couldn’t do it. I started this book way back in JANUARY, and despite multiple formats and multiple tries, I just can’t do it. I know there’s a mythical “it gets better” carrot hanging out past the fourth entry, but I just don’t have […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: adaptations, andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14bingo, Dresden Files, E.E. Ottoman, fairytales, film, Jim Butcher, Kate Bernheimer, lgtbqia, P. Djèlí Clark, retellings, rom coms, Samantha Irby, Scott Meslow

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: adaptations, andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14bingo, Dresden Files, E.E. Ottoman, fairytales, film, Jim Butcher, Kate Bernheimer, lgtbqia, P. Djèlí Clark, retellings, rom coms, Samantha Irby, Scott Meslow ·
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May we all in our dotage be proud to say, “I was adored once too”

From Hollywood with Love by Scott Meslow

May 19, 2022 by Ellesfena 5 Comments

I don’t love romantic comedies, but I like a few of them very much. I’m probably not the target audience for this book–but I did still enjoy most of it. From Hollywood with Love alternates back and forth between chapters about specific romantic comedies, and shorter essays about certain rom-com stars. Some of the essays about specific actors were interesting (and some weren’t–it probably depends on which actors you like), but mostly I enjoyed the chapters about the movies. The chapter about Pretty Woman was especially interesting to […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Hollywood, rom com, romantic comedies, Scott Meslow, Show Business

Ellesfena's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Hollywood, rom com, romantic comedies, Scott Meslow, Show Business ·
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