Sleepless in Seattle... again

[miriam_e]

I am such a sucker for a good romance. Been feeling sick lately and decided to indulge myself tonight so watched my DVD of Sleepless in Seattle again. Lovely story. Nora Ephron wrote and directed it so well. All the female parts are just superb.

Wish someone would remake it one day replacing the Tom Hanks part with another woman. Then it would be perfect. :)
[sigh]

Comments

[sharpblonde.livejournal.com]

Well... if you are looking for lesbian romance, my favourite lesbian romance films that I have seen are Saving Face and Better Than Chocolate. If you haven't seen either I highly recommend them.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Thank you. I haven't seen either of those. I'll see if I can get them.

I just finished re-reading Melissa Scott's "Trouble and Her Friends", a science fiction in which the two lead characters are lesbian. There was only a little bit of intimacy; it was mostly an action story. Melissa Scott tends to use lesbian characters in her stories (being an out lesbian herself). I was thinking of re-reading her "Dreamships", another SF with lesbian main characters... or perhaps settling down with a nice Karin Kallmaker romance.

At the moment I've been "wasting" my spare time writing a lesbian romance/action which won't leave me alone. Oh well, as far as living vicariously is concerned, writing gives the writer even stronger experiences than reading someone else's works. I just wish I was a better writer so I could do justice to the story.

[sharpblonde.livejournal.com]

Better Than Chocolate is Canadian and at least here a must see for queer women. It is a lesbian chick flick. Saving Face is American made, but subtitled in parts because the film focuses on first generation Americans with families from China. It is a little bit more serious, but wonderful.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

My ex- saw Better Than Chocolate a few years ago, and when I mentioned your recommendation to her last night (we still chat on the phone most days) she highly recommended it too.

[sharpblonde.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten about Melissa Scott. I think I have to go out and buy something for me to read today. I think I'm going to get The Tao of Pooh because it is so hard to get through the library, apparently. I may look for Melissa Scott through the library though as I'm trying to save for tuition. At least I'm not paying for rent AND school. I'd definitely need a scholarship and/or bursary then.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Have you considered reading electronic books? I read a lot of books on my handheld each night in bed. It is actually more convenient than a paper book, and a heck of a lot cheaper.

It is a bit difficult to buy ebooks without locks, but Artemis books (http://www.artemispress.com) has some (they specialise in lesbian books). Unfortunately, due to the muddled thinking that seems to inevitably follow copy-protection, Artemis have made a magnificently dumb attempt at encrypting their ebooks which is annoying because I have to decrypt them to use them on my handheld, but at least it is not like all the other companies that use revolting Adobe reader or MSReader to lock their customers out of what they've bought. Don't ever buy a locked ebook. It is absolute certainty that it will eventually lock you out. (Note: I just looked at Artemis' site again and it seems their latest 2 releases are in locked formats only. That's sad. I won't be buying them.)

There are about 20,000 free ebooks on Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org). And a lot of authors, like Cory Doctorow (http://craphound.com) (see the "stories" and "novels" links), now distribute free electronic versions of their books. Baen Books (http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm) give away a lot of their books as electronic versions. The site A Celebration of Women Writers (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/) at Uni of Pennsylvania has lots of free books online. And there are also the peer-to-peer networks that have been scanning and distributing out-of-print but copyrighted books for years now.

If you ever need an ebook that you can't find, let me know and I may have it among the many thousands archived on my machine.

I'd never heard of The Tao of Pooh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Pooh) before. :)

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

I'm the same, except for You've Got Mail. ;)

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yeah... You've Got Mail didn't quite work. I don't know why.