Random Ramblers Timbuktoo#52!!!!!! - Page 31

Originally posted by: ProdigalStudent

Lol Anu, you almost always get my choices right... I watched Glee and Bones at your behest and I sure haven't been disappointed! 😊
So 'Sweet Revenges' and 'Montana Sky' Cooool I'll definitely read them then instead of 'Macgregor series' (Since I've no idea where to start in this one! 😆)

*Ahem* 😆

Originally posted by: ProdigalStudent

Lol yeah I get your point... I guess maybe romance is not for Mels... Maybe chic-lit? Maybe she can try Meg Cabot then... though I cant think of any book from her collection that would impress Mels... Coz Meg Cabot doesnt really write much about the *ahem* scenes coz her books are catered to the young adults...

Yeah I think she might like chick-lit of the sort you recommended to her....I've never read these Meg Cabot books but I've heard of them.....Somehow I could never really take to chick-lit😆😆.....I mean the humor and situations are funny, sure....but they don't get the poignancy of a love story right usually.....this is the reason why SEP is one of my fav. authors cuz she's among the rare ones who's books have such HILARIOUSLY witty character interactions yet the love stories have a soul and poignancy to them :-)

Originally posted by: nureat01

LOL did you mean me or Mash in the first line?😕😆

Anyways, speaking of Glee....that returns on April 13th! Wooohooo!😃

Okay fine, I meant BOTH of you! 😆 Convincing me to watch Bones and Glee was a team-effort! Since you know I'm obviously too strong-minded to be swayed by just one person's opinions alone! 😛😆

And yayyy for the return of Glee! I really cant wait to see how they'll take the Will-Emma relatonship forward..... Eeeee they're so cute! 😳😃 And ofcourse I like the other stuff in it as well... What I'm more eagerly anticipating at this moment is the return of '10 things I hate about you'... I think it returns today... And I can't wait... I wish I could chat with Nimmi about it!

Originally posted by: nureat01

Accha beta?? Agar MAIN controversial hoon toh aap toh controversial ki PERSONIFICATION ho🤣.....

LMAOO...I have just taken a FEW pangas in ONLY the MJHT forum...Aap, Anuji, world-famous hain...😆 Getting into pangas all over IF...🤣

Know what Zainu will say to this?....."Haan toh kiya hoa...pange lena toh changa hi hota hai' 🤣🤣

@Sonia: Oh so '10 things I hate about you' returns today?? Cool...Nimmi must be overjoyed too....lol...maybe you can PM her about it....she still logs on to IF once in a blue moon....I saw her in my recent profile visitors once...lol

Originally posted by: nureat01

Yeah I think she might like chick-lit of the sort you recommended to her....I've never read these Meg Cabot books but I've heard of them.....Somehow I could never really take to chick-lit😆😆.....I mean the humor and situations are funny, sure....but they don't get the poignancy of a love story right usually.....this is the reason why SEP is one of my fav. authors cuz she's among the rare ones who's books have such HILARIOUSLY witty character interactions yet the love stories have a soul and poignancy to them :-)

Anu, I find chic-lit satisfying for other reasons but HARDLY for its romance... I mean the romance is sweet and stuff but hardly up to the league of the likes of SEP and JQ and all... The only chic-lit romance books I've truly enjoyed from Meg Cabots collection is from 'How To Be Popular' which is like a young-adult version of 'How To Marry a Marquis' and from Sophia Kinsella it would have to be 'Can you keep a secret' bas thats it.

But you know chic-lit is very satisfying on some levels... Like recently I read this book called 'The Disreputable History of Frankie-Landau-Banks' It's basically about a normal geeky girl who turns out to become a prankster and almost like a criminal mastermind and how she preserves her integrity in the end (even if it means losing her popular boyfriend)... It doesn't have much romance, but it is a brilliant feminist manifesto in a high-school setting... It really makes you think about gender and power and stuff like that... Because most of a time in any social setting, its the guys who are powerful while the most powerful girl usually is 'the girlfriend' of the most powerful guy... So it challenges that notion of girls being powerful only as 'supporters' or 'followers' but not as leaders... So its awesome stuff... You don't get this kind of intellectual stimulation from romance novels for sure (most of the time anyways).

Chalo guys, it was reallllly fun talking to you but I've to go! So until next time! Bye Anu and Mash *hugs* I'll definitely check out the books you guys have recommended!

Hmmmm Sonia....I guess I'm not that huge of a feminist that way....I find chick-lit to be too fluffy to take it seriously in context of gender/feminism issues etc....the characters are usually too fluffy for me to really identify with them.

I've read better sketched out characters in many mystery/thriller novels....heck a Stephen King novel will surprise you with the amount of depth to it's characters sometimes.


*Edit: ok byee, Sonia! *hugs* It was great talking to you after so many days as well🤗

Originally posted by: nureat01

Hmmmm Sonia....I guess I'm not that huge of a feminist that way....I find chick-lit to be too fluffy to take it seriously in context of gender/feminism issues etc....the characters are usually too fluffy for me to really identify with them.

I've read better sketched out characters in many mystery/thriller novels....heck a Stephen King novel will surprise you with the amount of depth to it's characters sometimes.

Lol fair enough Anu... To be fair, most chic-lit novels are light-headed and fluffy with not much substance to it, the one I gave an example of in my previous post is just one of the exceptions... and its more Young Adult than Chic-lit anyways.... But I do think that some of them are fabulous novels in their own-right, and you shouldn't let its genre stop you from checking them out 😊

And regarding characterization from Stephen King.. lol I havent read much Stephen King but I did enjoy his characterization in Carrie and Shawshank Redemption! 😆 BTW wow you read stephen king, never really pegged you for a Stephen King reader! I can't read his books for some reason.. too scary or creepy or something... I usually read Dean Koontz for my share of horror! 😆

LOL it's not the genre that stops me from checking out the books, Sonia....No offence but I don't particularly find myself fascinated with a plotline about a nerdy geeky girl turning out to be a prankster and then doing whatever after that.....I guess we all just have our own tastes....lol

LOL yes I've read many Stephen King books....yep they are pretty creepy and gross in bits....yet I like them in a twisted way....haha....more than the horror, the way he writes out his characters is what makes his novels brilliant in my opinion.....I've read his entire Dark Tower series and I liked that one a lot too....Dreamcatcher was good as well.