tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587150608901957801.post3930128279975294383..comments2024-03-22T17:51:15.887-04:00Comments on The Edge of the Precipice: "Together at the Table" by Hillary Manton LodgeHamlette (Rachel)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587150608901957801.post-62227262435043355272023-02-21T16:49:21.555-05:002023-02-21T16:49:21.555-05:00Lol, yes. Wickham too.Lol, yes. Wickham too.Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587150608901957801.post-10650508172183525252023-02-18T20:15:38.305-05:002023-02-18T20:15:38.305-05:00secretly skanky
I'm looking at you, Willoughby...<i>secretly skanky</i><br />I'm looking at you, Willoughby.Sam Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10806412789452476134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587150608901957801.post-11244708151934459812020-03-30T19:56:41.050-04:002020-03-30T19:56:41.050-04:00Katie, I kind of have several times, tbh. Right w...Katie, I kind of have several times, tbh. Right when Cowboy and I were first dating, I was tutoring this other college student, and he was throwing off a lot of signals about liking me, but... I was already dating Cowboy. So yeah, to me it's like, this happens.<br /><br />There's a great quotation from Cary Grant about movies that applies also to book romance, I think. It's something along the lines of, "Any love scene will look overdone and phony to anyone who's never been in love, and understated and lackluster to anyone who has." So... I get you there.Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587150608901957801.post-13404861165384792082020-03-27T22:03:47.476-04:002020-03-27T22:03:47.476-04:00I've never experienced a love triangle, and I&...I've never experienced a love triangle, and I've never known any of my friends to experience one, so I guess that's one reason why they do seem weird to me. I've never been seriously interested in more than one guy at once. Heck, I've only ever been seriously interested a grand total of two guys. :-P Period. <br /><br />So there's a lot of stuff about relationships in fiction where I go "wow, okay, that sounds fake"--but that doesn't mean it's never happened to ANYBODY--even though it certainly hasn't happened to me. ;-) <br /><br />Ah, I gotcha. Yeah, that makes sense.Katie Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818413749107653398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587150608901957801.post-3651950004827193392020-03-24T23:29:49.940-04:002020-03-24T23:29:49.940-04:00Katie, it is.
Love triangles don't tend to bo...Katie, it is.<br /><br />Love triangles don't tend to bother me, maybe because I myself have had times when I was interested in more than one guy, so I don't see them as super weird? (I mean, when I was first interested in Cowboy, I also had my eye on this very sweet baseball player. Who, it turned out, had a girlfriend. So, you know, that was kind of a triangle too, me liking him and him liking someone else.)<br /><br />This felt less like an actual triangle than like "Girl is with guy one. Girl breaks up with guy one. Girl gets back together with guy two, whom she previously dated." Like, it's a sequence, not a triangle? I think?Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587150608901957801.post-42966549583864187912020-03-22T13:57:55.287-04:002020-03-22T13:57:55.287-04:00This sounds like a good story.
Love triangles d...This sounds like a good story. <br /><br />Love triangles drive me up the wall for a LOT of reasons, one of them being that (as you say) one of the guys is almost always an obvious "bad choice" ... I don't know if I'd enjoy this book, but I'm glad to hear she avoided that trope!Katie Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818413749107653398noreply@blogger.com