Rob's choice of reading material

[pegkerr]

Rob takes his role as a father of daughters really seriously.

Right now he is reading . . . The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (megcabot).

He's on the third book in the series. I haven't even read them yet. He keeps reading bits of them aloud to amuse me.

(For some reason, I find this incredibly endearing.)

You know what first caught my attention about Rob? (Aside from his laugh, which I noticed when we first met in a writing class.). It was the day I ran into him at the matinee of a movie we'd each gone to see independently. I had known him for a couple of years in the writing group where we met at that point, but it suddenly occurred to me, You know, I think I want to learn a little more about this attorney who goes by himself on a Saturday afternoon to see the movie A Little Princess (based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett).

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[maribou]

Aw.

[vass]

They're better than you'd imagine. I borrowed the second one from the library the other day. They're *fun*.

[folk.livejournal.com]

The Princess Diaries, the film, is one of my favorites, and never fails to pick me up when I'm feeling bleh. I'm actually rather fond of the books, too — they're no great literary masterpiece, but they're a rollicking good read and perfect for my commute.

[cheshyre]

My husband's read the whole season (for his own edification; we have no kids)

They really are fun. The lead character is a geek and into SFF.

A cute passage I blogged once upon a time:

a friend challenges Mia to "[n]ame a boy that you could see yourself commit to for all eternity." Here's what she came up with:

GUYS MIA THERMOPOLIS COULD SEE HERSELF COMMITTING TO FOR ALL ETERNITY
1. Wolverine of the X-men
2. That Gladiator guy
3. Will Smith
4. Tarzan from the Disney cartoon
5. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast
6. That hot soldier guy from Mulan
7. The guy Brendan Fraser played in The Mummy
8. Angel
9. Tom on Daria
10. Justin Baxendale

But this list turned out to be no good, because Lilly totally took it and analyzed it, and it works out that half the guys on it are actually cartoon characters; one is a vampire; and one is a mutant who can make spikes shoot out of his knuckles.

In fact, except for Will Smith and Justin Baxendale -- the good-looking senior who just transferred from Trinity and who a lot of girls at Albert Einstein High School are already in love with -- all the guys I listed are fictional creations. Apparently, the fact that I could list no guy I had a hope of actually getting together with -- or who even lives in the third dimension is indiciative of something.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Have you linked to megcabot's blog? She's just as funny in person.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen it - hadn't realized she was so a conscious role model, either.

But then I thought Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde was a good role model too.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I once admitted to Sue Grandys that, as a boy, I had a crush on Race Bannon from Johnny Quest. She thought it was the weirdest thing.

(As if her wanting to be a fairy pony when she was a kid was normal...)

[rachet.livejournal.com]

OK. That is the sweetest thing I've read in quite awhile.

awww

[dreamflower]

You know, similar literary tastes are a more reliable guide to compatability than just about anything else I can think of. I never would have had a conversation with my husband if he had not been carrying his own copy of Fellowship of the Ring.

He took me to a bookstore for our first date.

We'll be celebrating our 31st in September.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Yep, ya done picked good.