Reader Friday: Love

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Since it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow, tell us what your favorite love story is, book or movie (or both). It can be a romance or have a romantic subplot. Mine:

Movie: It Happened One Night.

Book: Rebecca.

15 thoughts on “Reader Friday: Love”

  1. That is my favorite black and white movie! But since I’m a hopeless romantic, I’m gonna give you my top 5. Finding Normal, The Proposal, The Holiday, Christian Mingle, and It Happened One Night.

  2. La la land: man that ending in the club ! It wrecked me. I sat in the theater long after the credit. Casablanca really got to me also.
    Bridges of Madison County – book. Waller has some very poetic sentences and you can tell he loves words

    Love is bittersweet to me and so are these.

  3. I’ll share two of my favorite stories, each showing the love that comes from knowing our Creator and embracing the bitter and sweet that comes with life and death. Sara Brunsvold’s The Extraordinary Death of Mrs. Kips lingers in your mind and choices long after finishing the book. Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken shows how love can redeem a person spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically. Not your usual romantic fare. These are love stories of the highest order.

  4. The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine b/c it’s not a typical romance. Fred MacMurray is a smooth and utterly hateful antagonist. Great last scene w/o sappy violins and passionate kisses, just two good people the audience has been rooting for, playing gin rummy.

  5. I am drawing a blank on books. Shame on me. For a slow Friday, “Loverboy” is running on one of my extra screens right now.

    Hard to go wrong with “Casablanca”.

    For me, “Somewhere in Time”. Christopher Reeves, Jane Seymore, Mackinac Island, and time travel.

  6. Book: Jane Eyre

    Movie: Since you’ve already mentioned It Happened One Night, I’ll go with the TV series North and South based on the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell

  10. You’ve Got Mail, 27 Dresses, An Affair to Remember (who can resist Cary Grant, and that look on his face when he sees the painting…), Father Goose, Crazy, Rich Asians, and Persuasion by Jane Austen (book and movies).

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