I finished watching Grace is Gone and Must Love Dogs. Grace was heartbreaking--a man takes his daughters on a road trip as he summons the courage to tell them their mother was killed in combat. John was amazing--very different from the romcoms--which leads to MLD. Eh. Jonh was funny but I didn't feel any chemistry between him and Diane Lane.

I'm only two movies into my John Cusack Film Fest and have decided I don't need to see everyone. I was really torn about this, but I just couldn't muster up the enthusiam to watch Conair or 2012. Am I making a grave error? Should I watch them just to see the macho side to John? Unless I hear otherwise I'm giving these two movies a pass.

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It's the 25th Anniversary of the classic John Cusack movie, Better off Dead. Here's an interview with some of the cast including the shocking revelation that John hated the movie. Now, it's not a cimematic masterpiece and has a high cheese factor but love the movie and have been quoting lines from it for years.

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Yay: Master of Mirrors IS off to copyedits--revisions were okayed!

Nay: Went to the library to get Must Love Dogs to start my John Cusack film fest and someone took it out 20 minutes before I got there! Grrrrr.

Yay: Rented America's Sweethearts--which I saw many moons ago, and Being John Malkovich which I haven't.

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There's a chance Master of Mirrors will be going to copy edits today and that would mean all the hard stuff is over. Fingers crossed.

I watched Hot Tub Time Machine staring my only long-term celebrity crush, John Cusack. (Briefly flirted with Mathew Broderick in the 80's, but I've never been a big celebrity crusher.) Hubby and I enjoyed all of Hot ( Read more... )

This last year was a busy one--three books to write and one that had to be revised. I handed in the last book on the 2nd and then left for two weeks of vacation with hubby. I am now officially on book writing vacation! Actually, I'm super excited about a new story, but this time I'm going to write the whole thing first at a nice leisurely pace and ( Read more... )

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I'm fininishing up my last Magic Repair Shop book to hand in on Monday and then I'm FREE. It's been a long year with three back to back books to write, so I'll be taking a long  break and will be heading back to play in live journal land again soon!!!

Today I got my first reader review of Slayed. My stomach flip-flopped as I read hoping it was good ( Read more... )

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