Billy Ray was a preacher's son

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Okay. I'm fairly sure it was someone on my friend's list that was talking about Faking It by Jennifer Crusie and how funny it was. I saw it in a charity shop yesterday for 50p and thought that was a pretty good bargain.

How adorable is this book? Oh, my goodness gracious! The one-liners, the jukebox, STEVE! It has been added to my list of novels I wish I'd written.

Fave line (out of lots!): "People die in their beds, doesn't mean they don't hit the sheets."

Are her other novels this funny? 'Cause I'm off to the library if so.

BTW, is anyone not getting emails alerts when someone replies to a comment or post? Because, I know that someone replied to me yesterday and I still haven't received the alert in my email Inbox.

Hope everyone's having a good weekend!! I'm getting my hair cut. Short. Ish. Yeah. We'll see. If it's awful, it'll grow back and I have lots of hats. Right.

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Just a quick duck-in from someone who reads your McCoy/Chapel fic. I just wanted to raise my hand in the heavily pro-Jennifer Crusie bandwagon. She's also a pretty neat person all together. She's an English teacher at an Ohio University who wrote her first novel because she'd been doing some research/was going to teach a class on the phenomenon of the romance novel.

I'm also rather a fan of hers in that she likes to use uncommon romance novel heroines. Namely women over a Certain Age, women who don't want kids, women who HAVE kids, lager women, and the like. Plus, her dialogue is VERY snappy and fun.

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Hi! and Welcome!

I think it was her unconventional heroines in Faking It that made me like it so much. It's always a delightful surprise when I read something with a spirited woman of a Certain Age being fun and intelligent and, dare I say it, acknowledging their sex drive. Life does not end after you turn 30 or 40 or 50, etc, and it's so nice to read Crusie and see that she agrees!

She sounds very awesome as well! Her dialogue just makes me smile.