My actual voice, you would like to be hearing it?
If so, head on over to RomanceNovel.tv for a video review of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Sarah—you are most awesome & did the bitches proud. :-)
<<-- adding the book to my Christmas wish list.
You look mahvelous. and sounded good too.
That was so awesome! As Chance would have it i’m going to the book store today!
Lovely! I love YA books, even if I am almost 30. I just ordered the book. Looking forward to it.
Excellent review and TV presence. I hope to see more of you there.
Wow, you look fab! Those colors are perfect for you, and you look rested and not at all like you’re dealing with a newborn and a toddler and there’s no spit up milk anywhere!!!
Oh, and the review was fab too. I’m going to check out this book.
SB Sarah is goin global!
Yah rock! In my opinion.
Nice review.
I must admit, I’m not sold on YA as romance, though. I mean, I was all over SVH and Sweet Dreams and all of that stuff as a teen, and maybe I could still love YA on those terms. But as romance?
Can’t buy the HEA, true, and also, there’s something a bit uncomfortable about investing weighty genre expectations about A Love For All Time on two people so young.
I remember that a friend had those same qualms with Julie Ann Long’s Runaway Duke. The heroine was so young and untried, it was almost too painful to watch the throws of young love.
you look rested and not at all like you’re dealing with a newborn and a toddler and there’s no spit up milk anywhere!!!
It was over my shoulder, down my back. Baba, alas, has the reflux like DAMN. Just about every shirt I own has the over-the-shoulder mark of infant-has-been-here.
But thank you for your compliments, ya’ll! It’s very strange to watch myself so I appreciate the compliments.
And anu: it’s a huge question, whether YA is romance, or whether romance can be YA. I can buy the happy ending, as I said, but I easily understand when folks can’t invest that kind of belief on two young people.
I think people who don’t buy the happily ever after are just silly! My uncle and aunt got together at 18 and are now 50; my best friend’s parents have been together since they were 14; I met my guy when we were in Junior High, although we didn’t start making out until the eighth grade.
There’s a lot of data to support a HEA in YA, and no reason not to buy into it on that element alone.
That being said: Sarah, I loved your earrings, and your glasses, and the video! Yay!
You are cute as a damn bug and entirely too sweet looking to have the title of bitch. lol
Seriously though, nice review and you look fabulous and like they all said, not at all like you have a newborn puking on you all day and night.
I love that necklace, too.
Awesome review, Sarah...and so true about the HEAs.
I wonder if the ability to believe in a YA romance has more to do with your personal experience than anything. Those that are all for it and think that it is more than plausible seem to have either experienced lasting young love themselves, or have witnessed it between two people close to them. For those of you who don’t believe in it, do you have any personal experience with people who met and fell in love young and are still together years later? I think that may be the demarcation here. What do you think?
Great job, Sarah! An excellent review for an excellent book :)
I enjoyed the review, however, I was somewhat distracted (please don’t take this the wrong way) by how PERFECTLY your lipstick matched your sweater. It was freaky! Also, I was very impressed by the neatness your office space. I am sitting here with tons of random to- do lists, elementary school papers, dirty Kleenexes, and Webkins trading cards. I have no toddlers or newborns, and therefore, no excuse.
I’m literally laughing out loud - I never manage to keep lipstick on more than 4 minutes at the most! But that is my most favorite one, and the matching was a total accident. My actual lips have no color except for residual melasma from pregnancy.
But aside from that filming, my lipstick is nonexistent, much less matching my clothing. It was a rare moment of coordination.
And that, sadly, was not my actual office. My actual office is as much of a mess as anyone else’s. That was a “set” lovingly crafted by the ladies at RN.tv. They are crafty, those two.
Whoa, SMOOOOOTH! Nice bling, too. If I had to be on camera, I’d piss myself...from the head down. (Now I gotta put yet another book on my TBR list. Shit.)
That site is great...or would be, if it weren’t for the freakin’ credit card commercial that opens EVERY STINKIN’ VIDEO! Wish that damned player would just run all the way through, too. All the pauses finally made me X out in sheer frustration.
Okay, here’s the hole in the whole YA argument not being a romance. Don’t adults get divorced? Aren’t the statistics of a marriage lasting longer 20 years nil to piddly now and days?
I just think people are uncomfortable about it.(What makes them uncomfortable couldn’t begin to speculate) Not that an HEA is unrealistic for people so young.
Anyway, loved the review and you didn’t look bitchy at all.
Well done, SB Sarah! I liked your description of ‘Nick & Norah’ so much that I ordered it from Amazon.
Will you be reviewing regularly for RN.TV?
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OTOH, I can’t tell whether she’d deliberately trying to make Beaufort Books look skanky with the OJ Simpson reference, or whether the circumstances under which the book was eventually published are well enough known that she wouldn’t need to clarify.…
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