Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Challenge: Go-To Pick-Me-Ups

This is part of the weekly Blogging Challenge over at Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate, you can find the prompts here. They also put up a post every Wednesday where you go and link your response -- and see everyone else's. Check out their homepage to find it.

The challenge for this week is My "Go To" Book Or Movie For A Pick-Me-Up.

I intended to kind of flesh this out, but I really don't have a single go-to for either category. I do, however, have whole selections which I come back to, so let's look at some lists. (I was going to add individual commentary, but apparently I have no brain this week either, and what little I have left is being used to do work, so... yeah. Plain text bulleted lists it is.)

Books:
  • Jennifer Crusie: Faking It and Bet Me (I'm counting this as a single entry because I have them from Amazon as a two-fer. Fun, funny romance with happy endings.)
  • T. Kingfisher: Paladin's Grace (and, in fact, most of the books that she publishes under that name.)
  • Barbara Hambly's Darwath books (Lord of the Rings meets HP Lovecraft, written with a historian's sense of perspective; some very nice moments all through the series.)
  • So, so many others...
Movies:
  • Mamma Mia (And one of these days I really need to watch the sequel...)
  • Last Holiday
  • The Fifth Element
  • Evolution
Music:

19 comments:

  1. LOL... "Faking It" is one of Jenny Cruisie's best. If you like her voice you need to try "Getting Rid of Bradley" or the book she co-wrote with action author, Bob Mayer, "Agnes and the Hitman".

    LOTR meets Lovecraft? That sounds like something my daughter would love. I'll have to check it out.

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    1. Barbara Hambly is really good and really, really versatile. She has a great back-catalogue of fantasy titles, but also a series of vampire books, some historical mysteries...

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    2. Her name tickles the back of my brain like I've read her before... I need to go look through her books, brb. YES, Dragonsbane, Dragonshadow, etc. That was 30 years ago. Blast from the past. I'll check out the Darwath series, then. Because I remember liking her!

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  2. My kids actually love Mama Mia! And The Fifth Element is a great movie, one I often forget about until I stumble across it.

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  3. Getting Rid of Bradley is awesome. I had a dog like the one in Bradley, who would fall over if she thought she was being pointed to. Cracked me up.

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  4. Mamma Mia is a great one! I like Walking on Sunshine too, which is like a bad Mamma Mia with 80's songs

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  5. Wow, you thought of a lot. How cool.

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    1. I really do have these sort of rotating selections, and it's very helpful for when I've already seen something fairly recently.

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  6. I love Mamma Mia! The songs are just so catchy. I haven't seen the second one either.

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    1. And also it just looks like everyone filming it had so much fun.

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  7. Fifth Element does seem to be popular. Thanks for coming by.

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  8. You'll love the sequel to Mamma Mia, Micheal. It's just as uplifting as the first. I've read Faking It but not Bet Me. The one I really want to read is Getting Rid of Bradley. It seems to be a lot of people's favourite.

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    1. I've read that one before I did enjoy it, so yeah. Apparently I just forgot the title. My brain...

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  9. Fifth Element is one I always forget, but I do love Gary Oldman.

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    1. It's one of my regular go-tos for laundry sorting, among other things.

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