Oh, John Hannah. One of the few reasons I liked Sliding Doors so much...I adore him.

Me too! He's so endearing and sexy in that totally comfortable, relaxed way, which I didn't get from him in Four Weddings (which I saw first).

Hands off my John Hannah! Back, you fiends!!!

Sliding Doors is one of my all time favorites. As is Love, Actually. I like Four Weddings, but I am large with the Andi MacDowell hate, so she kind of ruins it for me.

looks at titles of those movies, suspect may be in love with Hugh Grant also.

I want John Hannah in an HP role. Not sure which one, but something.

I enjoyed Four Weddings and a Funeral ... I find John Hannah hard to recognize because he's different in each movie ... which speaks well of his acting skills.

I just finished reading a book that caught my eye-- women's fic called The Way Life Should Be and I swear, it was so damned predictable. The writing was maybe nicer than most and not as snarky as some of the more comedic chick lit, but I read the first two chapters where the single, NY career woman tries internet dating and falls for a guy who's a sailing instructor in Maine (she has a fascination with Maine, which is why she fixated on him) and my first thought was, "He's so not the guy that she winds up with-- he's too slick, he's going to wind up being a rat and she's going to meet someone nicer and while she won't get together with him during the course of the book, we'll be left with the promise of them getting together, especially after she realizes what she's really been looking for."

Yeah. Pretty much just like that. And it was so frustrating because this is the kind of book that you know the editor and the author would just as soon cut off their left boobs before admitting it was a chick lit/romance novel, but you know, it sort of quacked and waddled along and lo, but for the lack of the obvious HEA with the One (but you just KNEW it was going to happen) it was a fine, feathery example of a chick lit/romance novel.

It's enough to make me want to pull a Sylvia except my oven's electric.

Who wrote it, Barb?

Christina Baker Kline, who has, among her other credentials, Writer-in-Residence at Fordham Uni on her bio

Oh my.

Romance is everywhere. I mean, Patricia Gaffney went to "women's fiction," and they're still romances. They just don't "say" so. (Okay, The Saving Graces wasn't as much, but Flight Lessons? Totally a romance.)

Okay, I need something somewhat mindless -- but not *dumb* -- to read. Trashy and fun, but well-written.

Recommendations?

I wouldn't call them trashy, but you might like Holly Black's faerie books, Steph.

I always go for whatever Nora Roberts trilogy is out when I'm in that mood.

Any Georgette Heyer, but you might especially like These Old Shades or The Talsiman Ring.