Hollywood Endings

Jennifer Weiners' Good in Bed is an entertaining piece of chick lit, which I don't read a lot of but it can be fun once in a while. Good in Bed's strengths come from it's unusual choice of a plus size woman as a main character and it's setting in Philadelphia. A larger woman, confident in her own skin but still acutely aware of being far from ideal resonates as a character with anyone who at times doesn't quite fit in. I also liked the setting of Philadelphia, books are never set in Philadelphia. It's a big enough city to be city-like yet anonymous enough that you don't have any preconceived notions about it, it could be any city, it could be your city. The book is fairly well written and easy reading though hard to buy into in parts. Oh and it would have been so much better without the fairy tale prince charming ending. But some people like that sort of thing, and if it does get made into a movie they won't have to change the ending.

On the note of Hollywood endings I watched The Lake House this weekend. It's a decent movie if you buy into the story and you kind of just have to in order to enjoy it. But again it doesn't need the fairy tale ending. Haven't we all learned from Star Trek that sometimes you have to let people go? You can't change the timeline just to have a happy ending.