LilMissMolly, Louisa Cornell and Miranda are the winners of an ARC of Lori Handeland's ZOMBIE ISLAND!
I was in high school and college and graduate school for the entire decade of the 1970s and let me tell you, most movies and TV shows of today get it very wrong. Naturally, I’m talking about the fashions/home decor/hair styles/make-up. You know, the stuff I live for.
Sorority Sisters, that wonderful book of mine out June 5 (JUNE 5!) gets it dead right. I lived in the 1970s. I know what we wore and how we wore it and I take the time in the book to set the record straight.
For example:
Bras were entirely optional.
Wonder bras? Laughable. No 1970s woman was going to put herself through that. Of course, the late 70s was the era of the perm, so we weren’t all that smart.
Green eyeshadow? Are you insane? If a woman wore blue eyeshadow she was quietly mocked and encouraged to move to the taupe/brown family.
Hairspray? No way. That was for moms.
Patterned fabrics? Patterns were popular. That’s true. Mostly plaids, but flowers and mod prints? That was the late 60s, not the mid 70s. We did wear vests, lots and lots of vests.
Why do I bring all this up? I just saw Dark Shadows with the always amazing Johnny Depp and boy howdy, did they get the costumes/hair/make-up wrong. The movie takes place in 1972 and I suppose, being generous, that they might have gotten some of it right, but not much. And I’m still being generous.
The photos of Charlie’s Angels, that knock-it-out-of-the-park hit of the 1970s proves my point. Their hair, make-up, clothes—that’s what we women of the 1970s looked like. The Dark Shadows version? That’s late 1960s, baby.
Get with the program, Hollywood. I’m available for (paid) consultations if you need help.
What do TV shows and movies get wrong that drives you nuts?
I’m a power-napper. I’ve been one since way back. I never “taught” myself to do it; I just did it. In college, I couldn’t function without my afternoon 10-20 minute nap. When I was pregnant, I actually chose an hour lunchtime (my company did flex time), so I could dash home, wolf down lunch, and take my 10 minute nap. I don’t even need an alarm. I just lay down, and my body wakes me up in 10 to 20 minutes. And I really sleep, too. I usually even have a dream. If I sleep an hour or more, it means I’m sick or exhausted.
I’m also a breakfast person. Must have breakfast. And coffee (most of the time, iced). And lately, my morning walk. Everything else is negotiable, but not those four. If I don’t get my walk or my nap, I’m very cranky. And there’s no “if” for the breakfast and coffee–I get them, period. I can’t think of a single time in my life where I skipped breakfast (except for fasting blood tests and surgeries, and even with the blood tests, I got breakfast afterward).
Do YOU have any must haves? Will you do anything for your daily coffee (or Pilates or muffin or romance novel or dog walking or morning kiss)? Is there anything in your life that if you miss one day of, you’ll be cranky?
Eddard Stark
I have a new obsession. I’ve had it for awhile, now – since I watched the first episode of “Game
Jamie Lannister
of Thrones” on HBO. What a bunch of conniving, back-biting, side-stabbing sons of…guns these people are. But at the same time, it’s just awesome to watch. There are quotes aplenty that I love, like “when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die”. Or “the things I do for love”.
For those of you who don’t or haven’t watched it, it’s based on a series of books by George R.R. Martin, set in an imaginary realm occupied by knights and nomads and dragons and a giant wall of ice separating the “civilized” lands from the wilds where giants and
wights (zombies) dwell.
I will admit that I’d never read the books before I began watching the show, though at the moment I’m halfway through the second book and trying to catch up before the end of the second season. My two favorite characters are Tyrion Lannister (played by Peter Dinklage), a clever dwarf who has a much stronger sense of morality than the rest of the members of his family, and Arya Stark, a nine-year-old girl on the run from a great number of people who want her captured or dead.
Viserys Targaryen
I love all the twists and turns of the series, the way you never know if the person you’re rooting for at the
Jon Snow
beginning of the hour will still be alive at the end of it. And I love that there are also characters I hate, ones I can’t wait to see get theirs. Oh, I hope that happens. (You hear me, King Joffrey?) Of course it doesn’t hurt that there are some awfully good-looking men involved, either — even though some of them deserve (or have already had) a gruesome end.
Do you watch “Game of Thrones”? Have you read any of the books? Is there a show that you watch obsessively every week, or a series of books you think would make an awesome TV series?
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THE TAMING OF A SCOTTISH PRINCESS, COMING MAY 22nd!
Happy Saturday!
How could we pass up the chance to play “Caption This Picture” with such an expressive face?
So FOUR random captions will be chosen as winners – each getting one book.
Up for grabs:
Any Man of Mine from Rachel Gibson
Chasing Perfect from Susan Mallery
Blue Moon from Lori Handeland
A Most Dangerous Profession from Karen Hawkins.
What do these books all have in common? Each of these authors has a new release coming out this month! Be sure to pre-order, mark your calendars or haunt your local bookseller!
So tell us what you think this baby is thinking and we hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
