It’s Wednesday! And we have some links for you! New England is currently in the middle of a gross heat wave and I hate it. Even with a fan going, it’s too hot to sit in the living room and explore planets in the video game, No Man’s Sky. I’m very peeved about it.
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Bustle has some romance recommendations for your favorite romantic comedy movies. The list isn’t bad, but I would say the books picked aren’t what I associate with the romance genre. What do you think?
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Beverly Jenkins needs our help!
#ShowupShowout Need to raise number of views of fabulous Deadly/Sexy trailer for distribution considerations. Encouraging everyone to RT and view at least once a day for next 7 days. Hope you can help. Thx in advance. ❤️https://t.co/QMuAYkNdSk
— Beverly Jenkins (@authorMsBev) August 28, 2018
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Author Helen Hoang is at Frolic.Media putting together her dream cast for The Kiss Quotient adaptation (the film/tv/media rights have been purchased).
My personal favorite pairing out of Hoang’s suggestion is Godfrey Gao and Zoe Kravitz.
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Love a witchy aesthetic and fashion? This piece at SyFy is for you:
Tension exists in the witch representation, both historically and in fiction. Women are accused of witchcraft because they don’t conform; a girl becomes a woman and suddenly everything has changed. A push/pull between good and evil is often little more than the way innocence and sexuality are perceived.
This same tension exists in the collections that have a witch influence, whether in the Gothic Victorian high necklines and frills or plunging chest-baring frocks and revealing fabrics. One represents the seductive danger, the other suggests vulnerability.
As someone who prefers a “goth for all seasons” feel, I am all about this.
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Loving the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before adaptation on Netflix? Have you seen Eighth Grade yet? Here is an ode to the nervous stars of these movies!
Despite their nerves and neuroses, the girls at the heart of these two movies are never framed as anything less than heroines. During a climactic scene of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Lara Jean parks her car crooked across several parking spots, but she barely notices because she’s so proud that she drove–and so are we. In Eighth Grade, Kayla Day triumphs by standing up for herself to popular girls who don’t care and barely listen, but audiences cheer when she walks away, her ever-nervous expression briefly replaced with a look of satisfaction. The wins in these movies are objectively small but framed by filmmakers who finally recognize the underappreciated power of shy girls, they feel like everything.
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
I did not know that Beverly Jenkins wrote contemporary suspense. The trailer looks good, but I have to know – there’s an hea right? And the sexy truck driver is a good guy, right?
@ cleo DITTO. Please, someone, confirm the above!
@Cleo: It’s romantic suspense, so yes, there’s an HEA. And the trucker is the hero!
A friend sent me this and I had to share:
http://thebloggess.com/2018/08/28/this-day-took-a-turn/
Some of the comments are right up there with the blog post.
Vox writers discuss why Rom-Coms matter:
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/29/17769168/romantic-comedies-crazy-rich-asians-all-the-boys-set-it-up
Full disclosure: the artist is a good friend of mine.
Jodi Fuchs Art has a collection of works called “Reconstructing Romance”. She took a bundle of romance novels, shredded the pages, and is making collages out of them. I think “Choice Words” is my favorite so far. You can see the pieces here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/jodifuchsart/posts/?ref=page_internal or here: https://www.instagram.com/jodifuchsart/ and DM the artist to purchase!
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