"Paul Rudd and Friends Read Romance Novels" [Buzznewsroom.com]
"Paul Rudd and Friends Read Romance Novels" [Buzznewsroom.com]
@Toffeecake: That kind of makes sense since more women are exposed to online "adult content" that they would be more confident and comfortable to read a run of the mill romance novel.
]]>"He was her best friend in the world and she'd sadly come to accept that he would never be hers. But, she would not let him be alone. She'd find a handsome cowboy for him... and then she'd watch."
]]>... wait, what am I saying?
]]>Look at what www.1stchoiceusedbooks.com has to offer, keep a small company in business and one more person off of welfare!
]]>@gaberussell: I wonder if they're Canadian celebs, since Harlequin is from Canada?
]]>Paul Rudd dressed up as the earth on Sesame Street.
]]>Not picture books, mind you...chapter books. Although I still have all my picture books and still read them occasionally!
]]>FABIO!!
I love him!
Hilarious and disturbing at the same time.
]]>I make sure I'm in the room when she has about fifty pages to go. It pays off (if you know what I mean) more often than not.
]]>I'm all for porn, mind you, but Harlequin's stuff has the consistency of a boiled twinkie. Formulaic and DULL. Give me something with some teeth -- like Aunt13's -- or any of the other decent written pr0n you can find on the net. Usually for FREE.
]]>so since i can only get to the library for about 15 minutes before they close, due their operating hours and my work hours mostly overlapping, i 'shop' online and they email me when the books are in. i go return books and pick up my new ones a couple of nights a week.
i did realize it's a bit of a problem last night though when the librarian NEXT to the librarian who was checking out my books said to me: "you know, i was watching tv last night and someone on antiques roadshow had a painting done by an artist named [insert my legal name here] and that made me think of you."
when the librarian knows your full name without looking at your library account and knows it well enough to picture your face if they hear it outside of work.... maybe you spend more than a normal amount of time at the library
]]>We are bailing out the very institutions that made massive profits from unsound lending and then dumped the problem on the taxpayers. We are bailing out people that took out mortgages that they could not/cannot/never intended to repay. We are bailing out car companies that refused to build a competitive automobile.
How are we doing this ? Printing money out of thin air ,of course. If you think that the stock market swoon hurt your 401K,wait until inflation hits double digits. Watch what that does to your taxes and your savings.
We'll feel good for a little while,when the new money starts pumping through our financial arteries.ust like the rush a heroin user feels...At first. But ask any junkie what it feels like when the high wears off.This is no different.
@Etoiles:
You're honest. You play by the rules.You have made yourself more valuable by getting an eucation.I'm not saying that the world owes you anything,but when you do get a full time gig doing what you are trained for,will you hold onto that job with all you have ? Will you show up early,stay late,take the hard jobs ?
If the answer is yes...Then you are only halfway to prosperity. The other half is telling the Gods Of Wall Street that you will not be hostage to their little game. Eschew debt. Save. Invest . Save some more. Buy a used car for cash. Learn to get along without your employer when things go kerfklooey.Deny pleasure now so that you will have freedom later.
Here's a little prediction just between you and me ,friend. (Get closer to the screen so I can whisper).
(Low Voice) Since we are doing much,much more of what fucked the economy to begin with,the next big crash will be even worse.Get ready now.
We'll keep this just between us,Okay ?
]]>" so you're saying 8% is close to 15%?"
No,I am not. I am saying that there is some structural unemployment that will NEVER be solved, even if you gave away a new Pontiac on the job daily.There are some people that wouldn't hit a lick at a snake. As near as I can tell,that percentage of the population is (give or take a point) 5%. You can be outraged all you want,but some people are just sorry ass ,lazy bums. They are drunks , drug addicts,screw ups and lazy bastards that are never going to keep a staeady job because they would have to W-O-R-K (which, when you take out the hyphens, spells "work" ). I know a lot of business owners. They ALL tell me ,to a man, that their biggest probl;em is finding dependable employees that will be there daily,ready to work.These people puff up the headline unemployment number,even though the last thing in the world that they are looking for is a real job.
Again,if you are hurting,I hear you. Been there (more than once),done that. But don't think that the dream has died because some people in the media need a tearful tale to tell.
]]>Just wondering....
]]>@jurisenpai: fanfic used to be my crack, I couldn't get enough. Then I read all the good ones and moved to the second tier. Once I learned what the terms "mpreg" and "mary-sue" were my brain essploded and ozzed out of my ears.
]]>Wisconsin..... 7.7 only went up .1
sorry I don't hate ya
]]>I write romance (the non-explicit kind) and enjoy reading it as well. It's like the journey you take reading a mystery or horror novel--you know there will be a decent ending but you enjoy the suspense along the way.
]]>@catastrophegirl: no such thing here our library is on the small side. maybe our county library is different.
]]>It's like a billion dollar mad-lib:
Boy's name:
Girl's name:
City in the Midwest:
Part of Female anatomy:
MERGE!
]]>But three years ago? Yeah, that sucked.
]]>I am in favor of romance novels because my gramma loves them so, so much. And I love my gramma, so I pay for trashy books for her sometimes.
]]>@Megan Squier: HAHAHA I forgot about that. Awesome...
]]>@Skankingmike: They also don't include people who are in prison. I'm not sure how I feel about that. But it adds at least another 1% to the unemployment / not working rate. Most of the OECD countries count their prison populations in their unemployment rates, so it's difficult to compare rates internationally.
]]>You mean Fabio. My husband was actually at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg the day he got smacked in the face by a goose on that new roller coaster sometime in the 90's. For a teenage boy it was a pretty funny thing to see some overrated romance novel model get his face messed up. Any time anyone mentions Fabio my husband talks about that incident.
]]>@econobiker: Sorry his name is Fabio. I found this romancy novel bit about him and this author Rowena Cherry:
"Maybe a timeline will simplify a complicated answer. I started writing FORCED MATE in 1993 around the time that I met both Fabio and Chuck Yeager at the Indy 500, and rode around in one of the pace cars just in front of Ari Luyendyk (as I recall). I copyrighted the family tree in 1995. I did not find a publisher until 2003."
Chuck Yeager and Fabio at the same event. Who would have thought?
]]>330 million people 15% = around 50 million people. and the distribution of those numbers are incredibly scewed.
Arkansas ............................| 6.6
California ..........................| 10.5
Colorado ............................| 7.2
District of Columbia ................| 9.9
Florida .............................| 9.4
Georgia .............................| 9.3
Hawaii ..............................| 6.5
Idaho ...............................| 6.8
Indiana .............................| 9.4
Iowa ................................| 4.9
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Kansas ..............................| 5.9
Kentucky ............................| 9.2
Louisiana ...........................| 5.7
Maryland ............................| 6.7
Michigan ............................| 12.0
Montana .............................| 6.0
Nebraska ............................| 4.2
Nevada ..............................| 10.1
New Hampshire .......................| 5.3
New Mexico ..........................| 5.4
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North Carolina ......................| 10.7
North Dakota ........................| 4.3
Ohio ................................| 9.4
Oklahoma ............................| 5.5
Oregon ..............................| 10.8
Rhode Island ........................| 10.5
South Carolina ......................| 11.0
South Dakota ........................| 4.6
Tennessee ...........................| 9.1
Texas ...............................| 6.5
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Utah ................................| 5.1
Vermont .............................| 7.0
Virginia ............................| 6.6
West Virginia .......................| 6.0
Wyoming .............................| 3.9
@jurisenpai: They can't beat it, but I'd love to see the cover photo shoot for that.
]]>Where is that goofy looking Italian model guy who used to do the covers of the books today?
Faggio or some namelike that? I remember that my family heckled him at one of the Indy 500 races in the early 1990s...
]]>(I'm not really one to talk, though, I just dropped $50 on the cheap books bin at Borders last night.)
]]>But I can get through about half of my dad's Robert B. Parker collection in any given month. ;) (A lot of the 30-year-old paperbacks have found their way into my apartment, by now...)
]]>@jurisenpai: Agreed. And I have read a lot of fan fic that is better quality than most of the published books I've read.
]]>Just a cotton pickin minute.
During the height of the boom,we could not get unemployment below about 4.5 - 5%, Wages even rose for fast food and other service workers (a sure sign of full employment). I'm a bail bondsman,and I can tell you that there is a strata of people in this fair land that would no more work an honest job than they would live on Mars. So I always mentally adjust the "headline" unemployment number to take in that strata of lazy ass, good for nothing layabouts. And you should too.
Not surprised at all. They're a quick, easy read and give you the warm fuzzies. I go through 1 a day on my commute to and from work. I don't think i've ever bought one at full price though -Between library, salvation army, strand's 40 cent rack, and ebay (a box of 100 books for $15!). Harlequin / Silhouette rolled out an e-book divsion too, which was pretty smart. I have 77 books on my media player which is the size of a deck of cards. $50 player + Harlequin's free book of the month = eat it, Kindle!
]]>so it's more like 15.6% unemployed if you factor all things in.
they like to not include those people who don't care to find jobs in those numbers they spat on the TV.
]]>paperbackswap.com is a good place for cheap books. For what it costs you to mail a book (less than $3 if it's wrapped in 2 sheets of printer paper) you get a point that you can use to get a book. They have hardbacks as well as paperbacks. LOTS of books to choose from.
]]>it was a Christmas present. My mom had no clue what to get her and so she bought her 2 years of Bookswim. She gets like 6 books at a time.
It's like Netflix, you want the latest books and not have to wait for them.
She did the Library thing too, she would have 3 books out from them and then still go out and buy a book. The problem is she literally reads some of these books in an hour or so.
I don't quite get the romance thing but hey she doesn't get my zombie killing thing.
]]>I couldn't help myself either.
@Eyebrows McGee (on Twitter: LPetelle): I bet you would enjoy "The Wicked Earl". It came out last year.
]]>When we had a really broke Christmas one year when we were still in school, my husband took $5 and came home with a stack of 20 romance novels from the library sale rack. That was a lot of happy for $5!
]]>Had to get that off my chest...
]]>I can only read certain subgenres, though. The plot convention requires the man to rescue her from trouble and her to rescue him from his emotional closed-off-ness. The modern ones where the heroine is moping around waiting to be rescued, I'm like, "GO TO COLLEGE! GET A FREAKING JOB!" (And to the hero, I'm like, "GO TO THERAPY, you misanthropic basket case!") So I can only read the historical ones where she's legitimately in peril from her evil inheritance-stealing uncle or the nasty land-stealing Normans or whomever.
]]>I convinced my wife to stop buying cheesy romance novels (she doesn't buy the harlequin novels) at 5 dollars a pop. She would read them in a few hours and want to go out and get more.
She's fond of the Vampire love novels..
I'll stick to killing people online. :P
]]>Sorry, couldn't resist.
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