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Secret Santa
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Four Christmas novels - two romance, one mystery, and one chick lit. I bought it for Laura Levine's mystery novella featuring her sleuth Jaine Austen. I loved it as always. Two of the other stories were enjoyable, but Fern Michaels's contribution was just plain bad on all fronts.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-secret-santa-by-fern.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Doug Jones recommended Meet Joe Black (1998) in Movies (curated)

 
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
1998 | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

"Coming up to more recent years, I think Meet Joe Black, again, was a tear-jerky chick flick for me that I loved. And the performances…Anthony Hopkins can do no wrong, Brad Pitt‘s become a favorite as well, and Claire Forlani — stop already! All that girl has to do is blink and I’m enraptured. And that was another romance with a sci-fi twist; death coming to take a holiday."

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Doug Jones recommended Somewhere in Time (1980) in Movies (curated)

 
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
1980 | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

"I have favorite chick flicks and favorite comedies. My taste goes to romantic comedy a lot. Somewhere in Time, with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour — stop already! That was one of the most romantic stories I’d ever seen in my life; I was in tears, but it also involved a little bit of science fiction, with the time travel element. That one really moved me back in 1980."

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(Un)like a Virgin
(Un)like a Virgin
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4.0 (1 Ratings)
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I&#039;m not a huge fan of chick-lit at all. I prefer something a little more exciting than just following a woman around in her daily life.
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That&#039;s not to say I didn&#039;t like this, because it was okay.
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I have this thing where covers attract me to books and come on! It&#039;s a really fun, funky cover. But as&nbsp;I&nbsp;mentioned above chick-lit is not one of my favourite genre&#039;s. In fact, this was a DNF after 111 pages out of 400 and odd, though I did skim through the pages and what I thought would happen, didn&#039;t.
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I still liked Gracie and I&#039;m sure that if I could have brought myself to pick it back up and continue that I may have liked it. But from the 100 or so pages I read it was okay.