If My Heart Was A House

You'd be home.

So I watched 2 romantic comedies/dramas with my mom tonight.

Seeing The Jane Austin Book Club again gave me a new appreciation for the books. I haven't read them all, but I really want to now and re-read the others. I like that there are 6 different stories interwoven. Their lives all connect through their book club. Of course each story involved love and relationships.

There was the young highschool French teacher who was married to a business man. Their problem? He barely paid attention to her and took her for granted. Enter: handsome, bad boy highschool student. Which one did she choose?

Then there was the oldest woman in the group who had been married 5 or 6 times. She loved being in love and was thinking about remarrying.

Then the slightly lost and insecure woman who's husband left her for a 45 year old. Her daughter moved in with her. Did she move on or decided to eat in bed and sleep?

Then there was the 40ish woman who had never been in love and wasn't exactly looking. She was the matchmaker and friend for the previous woman.

Then there was the daughter of the woman who's husband left her. She was a lesbian who liked to be wild and do things like sky diving, which was the opposite of her mother.

Last but not least: The man who liked the single, never-been-in-love woman. He had never read Jane Austen (he liked science fiction) until he met the woman who thought he'd be good for the third woman. You can tell that's complicated huh?

I liked the end, because all of the men had a chance to redeem themselves. The first couple was my favorite. She begged him to read Persuasion. They read it together and in the end their men (except for the daughter of course) became part of the book club. Men reading Jane Austen?! This is miraculous!

I want to put a lot of emphasis on writing. There was a whole scene talking about how the men in Jane Austen's books often redeemed themselves or explained themselves through writing letters or notes. I love writing letters. I love receiving letters. I notice females write more letters these days than men. Normally I would say tell a woman how you feel, rather than write. Sometimes it's nice to write too though. Writing letters can be an art after all. So go for it as long as you can talk about it as well as write about it.

My mother and I just started watching Junebug. It seems interesting. What caught my attention most was the scene where the husband of the pregnant wife (Amy Adams) tried really hard to tape a show on meercats, because those are her favorite animals. Unfortunately it didn't work, but it was the most adorable thing I've seen in awhile. It's odd things like that that mean the most. When a guy picks up on little things like that, it shows he really cares.

Speaking of animals, my favorite is a wolf. I've said this to a few times, but sometimes I have wondered if I would make a better wolf than human. I haven't thought that so much lately though. I think we all know I would be the alpha female. Human society is so much more complicated.