Waiting for Tom Hanks

• DNF.20%

Não rolou. E isso corta meu coração.

A premissa, a idea, os filmes comentados - YOU'VE GOT MAIL pelo amor de Deus! É comentado a cada parágrafo e é um dos filmes da vida -, TUDO presente me fazia imaginar que esse seria facilmente um favorito do ano e da vida.

Mas não. Com 20% e eu já estou IRRITADÍSSIMA com Anne. Ela é muito... meh.
Sério. Não dou a mínima pra ela e nem pena consigo sentir. E outra: não sei vocês, mas alguém viciado em cinema como ela diz ser, não dar a mínima para os clássicos da fantasia? Para.

Drew é pior ainda. Um cara estupidamente sexy, que se enfia, OU o que é bem provável que vai acontecer no final desse livro, em um monte de situação de publicidade ruim simplesmente pela publicidade - com a justificativa de que tudo é feito para esconder um lado FOFO protetor de irmão mais novo e blá-blá-blá.
Não colou.

Já leu Geekrella? Não? Eis um livro ótimo que mostra o lado do “drew” da história de forma bem inteligente.

Dai ele chama Anne de Coffee Girl (tipo surprise, surprise “Dinner Girl” em A New Cinderella Story da Hillary Duff) e ela fica sem palavras.

O livro morreu aí.

Enfim. Emputecida. Quem sabe no futuro quando meu nível abaixar mais, eu retorne nessa coisa.

This was one of my most anticipated books of 2019. Probably because I love romantic comedies and Tom Hanks. This book follows Annie who dreams of meeting her “Tom Hanks” and having a fairy tale rom-com romance. Annie gets a job working on the set of a movie filming in her town and soon meets the lead actor, who couldn't be further from her ideal “Tom Hanks”. I'm sure you can guess what happens next. As I was reading this I definitely felt like this was something that could be made into a romantic comedy movie. It was cute, funny and a quick read. Highly recommend if you love light, fluffy, contemporary romance books.

After more than a year, I finally went back to my beloved Barnes and Noble with the sole intention of just browsing for a little while. I missed doing this so much! When I started down the romance aisle (SIGH, yes, they've reduced it to a single aisle sometime in the past year) this caught my eye - it's been a long time since I've read something just because it looked fun and was there. Serendipitous reading, I think I heard it called recently.

So the main character, Annie, is ridic obsessed with '90s rom-coms, is writing a screenplay, and idolizes Nora Ephron. You'd think that she's waiting for her metaphorical Tom Hanks, that it's about a feeling rather than literal fictional character traits, but then she asks a blind date if he owns a houseboat, and is pumped when a different date reveals he has a teenaged child, and it's like, oh you literally want a Tom Hanks character. That's ... something. (Annie does eventually evolve beyond this, but it takes a while.)

But you know what, I loved this, ridiculousness and all. It was really fun to read, the characters were great, their evolution felt true, the love story was great, and I'm gonna get the sequel too.