{"id":21738,"date":"2022-03-21T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21738"},"modified":"2022-03-20T16:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:39:24","slug":"reading-report-mid-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21738","title":{"rendered":"Reading Report: Mid-March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I watched both versions of <em>The Goodbye Girl<\/em>. The two screenplays were virtually the same, making the second film feel like a weird echo of the first. Richard Dreyfuss really plumbed the extremes of the role. He was intensely dislikable at the beginning and intensely likable at the end. Jeff Daniels was not nearly as repellent at first, and that wasn&#8217;t such a bad thing, even if he didn&#8217;t reach the same level of likability at the end. Reviewers are hard on his version. Too hard, I think. It was made for television, and it deserves to be judged within that context. Everyone has become accustomed to streaming services and being able to watch blockbuster movies at any time of the day. They forget what it was like when television had so much less to offer and a decent made-for-television movie could make your day. Anyway, I don&#8217;t think either<em> Pretty Woman<\/em> or <em>While You Were Sleeping<\/em> needs to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21709\">lash itself in shame<\/a>,&#8221; but they maybe ought to move over to make room for <em>The Goodbye Girl<\/em> in the movie queue with them.<\/li><li>I finished reading <em>Accidentally Engaged<\/em> by Farah Heron, Grade: A; <em>Portrait of a Scotsman<\/em> by Evie Dunmore, Grade: A; and I finished listening to <em>The Unhoneymooners<\/em> (audiobook format) by Christina Lauren, Grade: B+.<\/li><li>I haven&#8217;t made any progress on <em>Parable of the Talents<\/em> by Octavia Butler. If I pick it up soon, I&#8217;ll have no trouble getting back into the story. Time is running out, though.<\/li><li>As for <em>On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells<\/em> by Leigh Michaels, I didn&#8217;t have a bookmark for it, and I kept losing my place and rereading parts of it by accident. I don&#8217;t always, or even usually, use bookmarks, but clearly I need one for this book. I have since found a bookmark for it and made some progress. I am now on page 113.<\/li><li>I abandoned <em>Get a Life, Chloe Brown <\/em>by Talia Hibbert on page 36. Both main characters have made big, negative assumptions about each other while simultaneously being in lust with one another, a combination that&#8217;s irritating rather than suspenseful. Chloe Brown, the main female character, is chronically ill, which is not inherently a problem, but I found the repeated references to her ailments to be off-putting. It&#8217;s no fun to be ill. I know that from personal experience, which is why constantly being reminded of her physical complaints was such a downer. The book might get better, but I have so many other books to read that I&#8217;m not willing to take the gamble.<\/li><li>I haven&#8217;t chosen my next read yet. Among the options are <em>Cloud Cuckoo Land<\/em> by Anthony Doerr (I had put myself back on the hold list and once again the book arrived much faster than I&#8217;d thought it would); <em>Price, Prejudice, and Other Flavors<\/em> by Sonali Dev; <em>Bringing Down the Duke<\/em> or <em>A Rogue of One&#8217;s Own<\/em> by Evie Dunmore; <em>The Violets of March<\/em> by Sarah Jio; <em>Wings of the Falcon<\/em> by Barbara Michaels; and <em>D (A Tale of Two Worlds)<\/em> by Michel Faber. And of course, there&#8217;s always Any Other Book That Suddenly Strikes My Fancy&#8211;that book is always a contender!<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched both versions of The Goodbye Girl. The two screenplays were virtually the same, making the second film feel like a weird echo of the first. Richard Dreyfuss really plumbed the extremes of the role. 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