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Awwww this just made me so happy. I have missed y'all TOO!!! We had a holiday weekend last weekend in the States and I spent the weekend with my family in Alabama and then stopped by Gold Strike casino on the way back to Texas where I spent practically every waking hour at the poker table and never ...
Aaaah, I am still on my re-read. I am reading it verrrry slowly. I got to the part where she leaves Claymore, and all the scenes that followed up until after she wins him back (my favorite part of the book ha ha) and then I promptly went back and read it a second time beginning with Chapter 28. ha ha
Jessica, I LOVE your fan-girling moments for the JM heroes. : D Ha ha ha ha ha ha! OMG you're right. I completely sound like a JM hero groupie. But I can't help it; they're simply the best heroes ever written. Period. Just thinking about them makes me go all a'flutter. JM's idea of the perfect man,...
Exactly. I also enjoy British accents. In fact, I have often wished I had one. (And have been known to randomly adopt one after drinking a teensy bit more alcohol than strictly necessary.)
But my JM heroes--particularly Clayton--do NOT have british accents.
Did you all refresh your browser window? My biography page appeared the old way too, but after I refreshed it, it updated. Anyway, yes, on http://www.mcnaughtized.com, you should see something totally different. Try refreshing the page in order to update your browser's history/memory/whatever. Very ...
I am going to completely re-do the "If you like JM, you might like..." blah blah blah on the McNaughtized website. The suggestions there were based off a list we compiled years ago on the old JMBB. It's old and outdated, and plus I don't agree with some of them. ha ha. The list is going to...
Awww! I am so glad you like it!!! I did it this weekend. I am especially fond of the entrance page -- http://www.mcnaughtized.com -- mostly because of that USA Today quote, which I think is A-Mazinggg. I was trying to find somewhere else to put it in the rest of the site, but other than replacing th...
SO glad someone else is haranguing them about this. Judith said she had given them the go-ahead for e-books and that there must have been a disconnect somewhere along the line, but that she would call them. Maybe she forgot. lol. But you know, it looks like Simon & Schuster would be the ones cal...
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kashu, I love that part. What makes it doubly heartbreaking is to consider that he was dying for her knowing good and well she had left the tournament, and wasn't even there to see it, or to know what he was doing. My heart practically slammed into my ribs when Stefan g...
I am still on my re-read of Whitney, My Love. Yes, I know, I am going terribly slowly, but it is heavenly. I am savoring it. But Until You is next! And this post just upped my excitement by 1000%! <3 <3 <3
Hi there! Welcome! You're right -- "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" was originally the title of Judith's next book... And then she changed it to "Someone Like You". And now...well now, we aren't quite certain what it is going to be called--only that JM is tired of both titles. ha ...
That is actually a great idea. I know that I have been able to save a word document to .pdf format and transfer that .pdf document to my Kindle folder on my computer. So if one were to download the JM books in .pdf format that should work; I don't have a Nook but you would think the principle would ...
Ha ha...Doesn't everyone say they are writing a book? I love starting them; I just seem to have trouble finishing them. A trail of promising beginnings lies in my wake. But this one really is almost finished--maybe three or four more scenes. Surely (please Lord) I can hang on that much longer. I can...
Hmm...I liked her earlier ones. Haven't read many of the ones she has written since, say, 1999. ha ha. The one every one seems to love is A Knight in Shining Armor, which I HATED for reasons I shan't discuss in case you decide to read it. But all the others I read kept me highly entertained and engr...
If only I knew! I so look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts. Have you all seen that video on You Tube someone did of Whitney, My Love? And who they thought should play the characters? Normally I cringe but the Whitney pictures didn't offend me as badly as some I've seen. The hero isn't Clayton ...
Ha ha...All in the name of preventing living a life without JM in it.
And I forgot to add -- the rankings do climb the social ladder...But the number of time it takes to get to the next one I think doubles each time. You know, just so it isn't too easy. ha ha
Ah, and when I read your message I remembered, I decided to name my son Clayton, and the other one Ian (even though I've never wanted a child let alone two lol :D ). Ha ha ha ha ha ha.... Me either. But I love the name Clayton. If I had a son that would be his name. Period. No hesitation. No discus...
Too much angst?!?!?! Is that even possible?? Ha ha. I lurveeeeeee angst. Mysti -- I love the scenes you mentioned!!! And I totally agree. JG's humor is very different from JM's. JM's is more subtle. Sometimes it's the wording of her narrative. Like Alicia Westmoreland stifling the urge to request th...
Ha! I am glad you love it. Farah -- I absolutely, positively love that quote. I too have often thought that one of the good things about being whacked with a winch a la Sheridan and losing my memory would be that I would get to read all of Judith McNaught's books again for the first time. Hmm...as l...
Ooooh, I like that scene too!!! I love how Alicia is getting quite piqued at Clayton for not coming for Whitney, and then it dawns on her that it obviously hasn't occurred to Clay to look for her there, so she devises that sceme to have Stephen mention it in casual conversation... I *love* Alicia. A...
Yessss!!! That's one of the things about JM heroes that set them apart from other, mere mortal heroes. I literally get little chills when she develops their powerful, commanding presence. The pages literally crackle when a JM hero is on it. Like that person on a stage, or in a movie that you CANNOT ...
Ha ha...I dated one guy who had a lot of JM hero characteristics--a JM hero in the making, actually (Read that as: He was not fabulously rich yet)-- and another who was a rogue and perhaps lacked the ambition of a JM hero, but was terribly witty and hilarious. And a gambler and drinker. All the thin...
Yes!! That's the one -- the extended version. The original Whitney, My Love stopped at the chapter where Clay says "Don't say I didn't warn you," and she says, "I won't." (Or something very close to that.) So there was no intro to Until You at all, or any background at first on w...
Gah! You are already way ahead of me!! I must catch up!!! OMG -- I had forgotten that scene where he signs the documents...even though he wants her back desperately. He is trying to make her happy. :( Old Clayton--the one who merely regarded her as an acquired possession--probably wouldn't have let ...
Oh my GOSH, I just caught that part above about you reading Harry Potter. I.. Freaking.. LOVE Harry Potter!!!! I take back what I said about JM's being the only books I re-read. I *do* re-read that series. It never gets old. So amazingly epic. Plus it makes me cry. (I also reread Meagan McKinney's L...
Aaah DO IT! Look for a job in Dallas so that we might chat about JM over dinner, like, every night. ha ha ha... Plus JM lives in Texas. It is possible (at least in my daydreams) that she might do a speaking thing or booksigning some time. And this way, we shan't have to travel out of state (or count...
But wait, do you think in retrospect that could have actually been a good thing? I was so fond of Stephen when I read Whitney, My Love. He was so mischievous and funny. So when I read Until You, I was like "Who is this man and what has he done with my Stephen?" ha ha... Of course, I still ...
Aaaah! I am so GLAD you are single-minded about this, because I am too since I am re-reading it! Y'all should re-read it too, and we can have a week-long book discussion and totally glom on W,ML posts. lol! I think my very favorite scene in W,ML (quite possibly my favorite scene out of ALL JM books)...
Ooooh, that's a good one! I love how it shows Matt and Meredith watching it. And then LATER when Paul (who is in love with her) nevertheless goes to Zack to force him to look at the evidence that Julie loved him. I love how Zack is hosting that party, and just from the description you get the impres...
Yes! After I graduated, I looked up best places to live in the US. McKinney, TX was number 5 on the list (now #2!). I had always wanted to live in Texas since I visited Austin at one of JM's booksignings. When I saw it was just outside Dallas, I was like, "THAT is where I am moving." And I...
Awww I love it!! I love how JM can write something so subtle (something other authors could write and you'd read right over it without missing a beat) and turn it into something so emotionally moving. I think I am going to do a scientific study on how she does it, and then write a book about it for ...
Mysti! Oh my goodness, that's a gooood one! I just re-read A Kingdom of Dreams week before last and remembered why I loved it so much! That part where Stefan comes up and says "He's out there on that field dying for you." *sniff* It makes my heart kind of leap in my throat every time. So s...
Ok so I am reading Whitney, My Love. Again. I wonder how many times I have re-read it? Hmm... No way to count. But I digress. So which scene is your favorite?? (Since I am re-reading it, this is probably the first of several posts on it I will post this week. Ha ha. So don't think I am single-minded...
Ha! I feel the same way! I do so love discussing the little things that make me crazy... (Don't get me started on Charles Fielding. Argh! He makes me SO MAD!) But that doesn't mean I don't like those parts of the book. ha ha. I think a book SHOULD drive readers to the point of wanting to throttle a ...
Whitney, My Love's is without a doubt my favorite. Short, simple, but so, so poignant. It would have taken another author 100 words to say what JM did in only ten. I also am extraordinarily fond of Remember When's, where she dedicates it to St. Jude, Patron Saint of lost causes. lmao. The underlying...
Aww, I love this welcome/intro thread! Let's see -- I'm originally from Alabama, but now live in Dallas, Texas and am a Financial Auditor with an accounting firm here, and am currently getting my Masters in Accountancy--which is odd, really, considering my favorite things are reading, writing, and o...
I like your choices! I think Mer and Elizabeth were alike in a lot of ways, despite their different upbringings. I suppose mine is Whitney. I love her fearlessness, her wit, her spunk and (yes this is shallow) her outfits!! Ha ha. I mean yes, admittedly she could be hard-headed and stubborn, and som...