Waiting for Tom Hanks

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.