Brigid Lowry! She's like Francesca Lia Block without the anorexia or drug abuse...

ooh, i am looking on amazon for her books now :)

I have a hard time talking to most people I want to talk to because I go to bed so early! So I definitely feel your pain.

Put your fairylights up! tmpe5t had to get used to it when I first insisted on them eleven years ago. He's never bothered arguing since, and is quite the fan of all things sparkly now ; D xxx

ee yay, well done :D I think I will have to try that :D

I'm all about anything by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables or The Blue Castle being my top recommendations). I'm not much into fantasy, though, so those are the kinds of books that take me away.

Movies...Elizabethtown!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, if you haven't seen it, Almost Famous to go with it. For a tear-jerker (which I watched once while Josh was away), I say My Life Without Me. Ten Things I Hate About You and Mean Girls are always good teen flicks that actually have some substance.

i second the anne series. yes, yes yes.

and almost famous, what a lovely film.

books: anything (mostly) by alice hoffman. my favorites being: the probable future, about three generations of females in a family, and their uncommon gifts they have, inside of them. and also, Green Angel, by her as well, which is in young adult, is sad and beautiful and hopeful after tragedy.

also, films: see the secret of roan inish. i think millie might like it, too. its such a lovely faerytale.

movies that i ♥ = thirteen ; prozac nation ; moulin rouge ; ginger snaps ; lolita ['97 version!] ; amelie ; girl, interrupted ; a little princess ; breakfast at tiffany's ; the hole ; the ring ; love actually ; the virgin suicides ; eternal sunshine of the spotless mind ; lost in translation
i have quite random taste, but i adore these&highly recommend them if you haven't seen them :]
oh, &i haven't seen it yet myself, but i'm after broken flowers as someone recommended it to me. maybe you'd like it too =]

I have seen some of those, but I think I would probably like the others, too; we seem to have similar taste in movies (as well as music, lol)
thankyou!
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Somersault.

hmmm, I think my ultimate favorite comfort book is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Or if you haven't read Wicked, I highly recommend that as well.

As far as movies are concerned, I like Finding Neverland, Jerry MaGuire, Hotel Rwanda, Syriana, Munich, and Walk the Line. Hahaha, we can tell what Oscar movies I've watched recently huh.

oh, i love Little Women, that used to be one of my favourite books. And Wicked! I just read that this year, isn't it great? Do you listen to Hannah Fury at all? Some of her songs are based on that book.

classics to rent: any audrey hepburn films (breakfast at tiffany's, sabrina, roman holiday, etc.) and casablanca (with ingrid bergman/ humphrey bogart) if you want something softer, maybe romantic. rear window (with grace kelly/ james stewart) and bonnie & clyde (with faye dunaway/ warren beatty) if you can handle the mystery and/or violence, but very classic with great film history.

more recent films to rent: pride & prejudice (the newer one w/keira knightley - i think it's so cute!), wallace & grommit (very cute, also good one to keep to watch with the kids), walk the line, memoirs of the geisha (though it leaves out a lot of the book), grey's anatomy season 1 dvds (my current TV obsession), brokeback mountain (i'm waiting to see that one, but everyone says it's wonderful), the constant gardner (also another one i have yet to see, but my friend raves about it).

books?: i haven't read anything "deep" lately, simply because i can't commit to the time it takes (i'm one of those people, when reading a good book, gets into it and can't stop reading), but some of the books i love (both deep & lighthearted) are the awakening by kate chopin, east of eden by john steinbeck, any of the books from the shopaholic series by sophia kinsella and the da vinci code by dan brown.

let me know what you end up deciding on!

p.s. totally forgot to add more contemporary classics like sixteen candles, the breakfast club, pretty in pink, ferris bueller's day off, edward scissorhands. also highly recommend benny & joon (with johnny depp) -- very, very cute. ahh, too many to say really. (i'm a movie rent-a-holic.)

just finished the book thief by marcus zusak - he's australian. and the story is narrated by death, set in WWII in germany about a young girl named liesel who loves reading and steals books as well as a bunch of other characters important in her life.

amazing amazing book.

it sounds fabulous, I will look for it!

oh! they sound heavenly, and the type of books I would love.
thankyou ♥

I just re-read boy meets boy bydavid lethian today and I love that. It's teenagerish and silly but I just like how he describes the world his characters live in.

ooh, i will check that one out! thanks hon :)

you have enough suggestions for a year, and most of these i would recommend anyway. i just wanted to say i know what its like to be all alone. i hate guys that go off overseas for work (or sport also, in my case). I might memory this because I possibly need some suggestions, although as if I havent enough to do with uni!

we need to have sleepovers & girly nights when our boys go off on trips!

admittedly teen movies, but, clueless, 10 things i hate about you & molly ringwald movies... because they're pretty great 'fluff' films.

books: cloud atlas

Maybe I should take advantage of the fact that Noel's not here to redecorate.

*grins* Haha, absolutely! You should do the whole house in fairy lights and pretty paint colours and take a photo of his face when he comes home. :D

Love you (am listening to the Sydney boot right now and grinning my head off remembering how wonderful it was! :)) xx

I think it would be Ben's face I would need to get a photo of if I did that! (you should have seen his expression the day after I spilled glitter in the hallway....)

I have been listening to the Sydney show a lot lately too, eee I can't believe it's been almost a year! I think this time last year we were in such a state of panic trying to get those tickets!