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  1. Previous #SpotTheThesp movies: Red (2010), The Speech (2010), Room With a View (1985), Gandhi (1982) & anything by David Lean.
  2. @JanetNorCal What? The hectoring review? Further evidence that romance novels have "made it" - our reviewers as obnoxious as NYRB or NYTBR!
  3. Of course, we're both over 50, which rather makes us the target audience for Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
  4. Just back from this year's "Spot the Thesp" movie, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Enjoyed it more than mixed reviews had prepared us.
  5. In unrelated delightful news they're pumping out the septic system today. Now all I need is to prep for a colonoscopy & I'd have a trifecta.
  6. My least favorite part of being a writer? Reading over other people's critiques of my work. Oral surgery is easier.
  7. Rereading Jane Eyre for school. What am I, fifteen all over again? I hope not; my adolescence was not pretty.
  8. @xinampls2 @Saschakeet And that a couple weeks after insulting ppl who liked 50S0fG ("a book for people who don't like to read...")
  9. @jennspiller I'm not sure if I know what was so funny. I can think of a lot of reasons to laugh at me: which one did it for you this time?
  10. Anyone remember Promantica? My blog? (Me neither.) But I explain why it--and I--got so quiet for a while. promantica.com
  11. @Saschakeet That's what Operation Tidy Up was in aid of -- getting ready for the cleaners. I hadn't seen my bedside tabletop in YEARS!!! LOL
  12. Laundry room & my office are my responsibility, but DH can help do the cubby under the chimney. Everywhere else: spotless! #virtuousfeeling
  13. Operation Tidy Up a qualified success: only 3 spaces in house still need triaging: my office, laundry room & cubby under the chimney.
  14. So why didn't I wrap the ninth book? Well, don't tell anyone, but I'm still reading it. Posted it by mistake and had to read it immediately.
  15. Part of Operation Tidy Up was triaging books. Nearly all the recent uploads to PaperbackSwap have been requested. Just wrapped 8/9 books...
  16. Lovely long weekend with @aliaslily @jasonboyer11 & the Beanettes (+"Granny") but time to go swimming all by ourselves. Way easier. :-D
  17. @JanetNorCal @cjewel Which is silly; what if that reader just liked that one book a lot? Throwing the baby out with bath water, etc.
  18. @JanetNorCal @cjewel Latest suggestion is that AMZ figures out which reviewers have reviewed only ONE book/author with 5 stars & no one else
  19. @JanetNorCal Actually, @cjewel has looked up Amazon's TOS and they don't seem to cover the "friends don't review friends" situation.