If you haven't run across the hysterical Cleolinda in your webcrawling, now is the time to rectify that oversight. Cleo does many things, among them mind blowingly funny paradies of movies "in fifteen minutes." My favorites have been her Harry Potters, but today I caught her Twilight parody. Made of awesome, my friends. Made. Of. Awesome.
If I'm being perfectly honest with myself, I've done a shamefully poor job of addressing my love for Cat Sebastian 's books around these parts. I've certainly noted each time her beautiful stories have appeared on my end-of-the-year best of lists, see: The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes , basically every book in The Cabots series , and of course We Could Be So Good . And the pull is, quite simply, this: nobody is as kind and gentle with their characters and with their hearts than Cat Sebastian. Nobody. I haven't always been one for the gentler stories, but I cannot overstate the absolute gift it is sinking into one of Sebastian's exquisitely crafted historicals knowing that I get to spend the next however many pages watching two idiots pine and deny that feelings exist and just take care of each other as they fall in love. I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. Not this one or any other. Only two things in the world people count by months. H
I just reminded me that I haven't yet seen that movie. Perhaps I should see the original before I look at the parody. Why haven't I seen that movie yet?!
ReplyDeleteI just reminded me? YOU just reminded me...
ReplyDeleteLol. Sometimes I remind me of all manner of things. And you should definitely see the movie first and then go hit up the parody for full comedic effect. :)
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