Sound the alarm, especially if it’s a trumpet with a big banner hanging off the front, like a flag on an erection! The Library Diva has won today’s Guess that Lonely Heart!
Yes, it was Nellie Grayson, from Jude Deveraux’s Wishes, a book in which Nellie’s noble character and strength earns her a fairy godmother who makes her thin. Don’t even get me started on that part. Yes, the fairy godmother realizes that being thin doesn’t solve the girl’s problems, but still – it would have been bootylicious if the heroine could have remained her zaftig self.
But regardless, Ms. Diva has won, and will now receive a most fabulous Smart Bitch Title®. Kneel, Your Divaship, and arise:
Hahahahah! I love the title! That is so classic!
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Yes, the fairy godmother realizes that being thin doesn’t solve the girl’s problems, but still – it would have been bootylicious if the heroine could have remained her zaftig self.
I’m with you dude. If I’m remembering the book correctly didn’t being thin end up causing Nellie all sorts of grief?
Yeah, it caused her all kinds of problems, what with all the men in town falling all over themselves over her and whatnot, but the underlying message made me so irritated when I read it years and years ago, because I SO wanted her to remain a plump heroine.
And the hero of the story really liked her better when she was plumper. I wonder if that story was written now if Deveraux would have let the character go back to being pretty and plump.
Okay, this is the first time a title has made me go, “huh?”. Is anyone else lost, or am I just dim?
A “Friend of Dorothy” is an old code term for gay. Dorothy, as in, the Wizard of Oz, playing off of the stereotype that gays are mad for Judy Garland.
So if you went to a party/bar/whatever and someone asked you if you were a friend of Dorothy, you’d answer accordingly. This prevented lots of unfortunate misunderstandings, because straight guys usually didn’t have a clue and would just say, “Um, no, I don’t know anyone by that name.”
Just living up to my honored title as Baroness Fagge Hagge.
Lol, excellent name! Gratz Diva!
Lol, I am beginning to think I am not gonna be able to get a title anytime soon. This site just recently inspired me to read romance novels. So i be way off till I actually get one 😛
I believe there is a story with Nellie as a character’s mother. I think it’s the “Invitation”, I may be wrong on that. But anyway, in that story I think that she has returned to her “zaftig self”. No doubt after having a large brood of Montgomery children.
I’m curious as to why she would need a fairy godmother to lose what I’m assuming isn’t a lot of weight in the first place. (Is she actually obese?)
In any case—why not just drink the water until you get some kind of bug?
Aren’t parasites fashionable to have nowadays? And they keep you looking so svelte, too!
LOL, yup, it was The Invitation. Nellie returns to big girl status. 🙂 Happily so, I might add.
And yeah, lol, Nellie was more than pleasantly plump. She wasn’t unheard of to eat 5 cakes when her family depressed her…given her family, she did that a lot, lol. The miracle there was having her lose weight so she could have flawless skin (which made me mad, lol) for the love scene.
Smooches!
Dee
“The miracle there was having her lose weight so she could have flawless skin (which made me mad, lol) for the love scene.”
Interesting how she could lose weight rapidly and not have loose, saggy, stretched-marked skin. Hmm, how convenient. I think having fat rolls is far more sexy than looking like you are wearing a suit of skin a la “Silence of the Lambs”. But then it was a magic weightloss. Does anyone have a magic wand I can borrow?
Oh I want that magic wand, too. I remember clearly a scene in that book where the fairy godmother wishes herself a year’s worth of People Magazine and a big plate of snacks. I would LOVE that. To hell with weight loss.