#manhunting

[schopenailleurs]

ah yes when you’re allowing yourself another day off and you get to do some friendly manhunting session with your boss, what a great day  

[reader44ever]

Today's July 13th tasks for #jcfjuly and the @deweysreadathon #deweyjuly #reversereadathon countdown photo challenge go quite nicely together. 😊😍❤ . . . . For #deweyjuly, the task is to share my #ReadingBuddy. My reading buddy is in around 95% of my photos (possibly more?), so that wasn't much of a challenge. BUT. . . I got him to look at me for today's photo! Well, he's looking my way, at least. 😉🤣😍❤ . . . . And today's July 13th #jcfjuly task is to share #contempvsfantasy. You'd think that I would be firmly in the Fantasy camp, if you know me at all. But my most favorite books include three contemporary romances and two books of fantasy-romance novellas. 😄❤ . . . . Granted, the H in Absolutely, Positively by Jayne Ann Krentz is a psychic - very reluctant, but psychic - so it was never a pure contemporary. 😊 . . . . Pictured I have books by four of my top five favorite authors. Three are contemporary books, five are fantasy books. I do love some contemporaries, but I think I'm pretty firmly on Fantasy's side in a debate with Contemporary stories. ❤ . . . . After all, I can't even begin to guess the number of Fantasy authors I have in my personal collection or that I've read. On Contemporary's side, in recent years I think I've purchased maybe seven authors' books? Less than 10, I'm pretty certain. In fact, I can only think of seven names. And at least three of those authors also dip into fantasy every once in awhile. 😄❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #bookstagram #JenniferCrusie #JayneAnnKrentz #IlonaAndrews #LaurellKHamilton #books #Manhunting #AbsolutelyPositively #GettingRidofBradley #MagicBites #CleanSweep #BurnForMe #GuiltyPleasures #AKissOfShadows #series #KateDaniels #InnkeeperChronicles #HiddenLegacy #AnitaBlake #MerryGentry

[willis-n-wonderland]

My spiritual animal #prissythehen I'm out #manhunting I even have a rolling pin to hit him upside the head when I find him!

[comicscans]

[sophia-sol]

Manhunting, by Jennifer Crusie

Mostly an extremely charming book! There are bits and pieces of uncomfortable things re: gender, and there is one short scene with some bad consent practices, and there are a few other more minor flaws, but it did a lot of things very right.

For one: omg the friendship between Kate and Jessie was SO GREAT, and Jessie (the bff of the main character) is amazing forever and I love her a lot. And I loved that this book just KEPT ON HAVING female friendships! With a variety of different types of women! Kate is friends with Jessie AND with Penny AND with Nancy and none of those friendships or those women are looked down on by the narrative.

For two: The book acknowledges that the way Will deals with Valerie is wrong - EVEN THOUGH Valerie is a pretty nasty woman she still doesn't deserve to be treated badly!

For three: Kate is good at her work and enjoys it and that is not seen as a bad thing.

For four: I just really enjoy the characters and find them and the book charming and funny.

For five: awwwwww the author's note at the beginning made me feel so charmed by the author. My favourite part:

Manhunting is the first novel I ever wrote and I love it. It's full of flaws, there's some head hopping, there's probably infodump although I tried to edit it out, but I don't care. I love it. I still think those scenes on the lake are hysterical, and the dates, well, I was on a roll there, especially the mashed-potato date--that one still kills fifteen years later. (Why no, I'm not modest. What's the point?) And the best friend, Jessie, is the first best friend I ever wrote and I...well, you know. I love this book."

YEAH JENNIFER CRUSIE ROCK ON, ADMITTING OUT LOUD THAT YOU DID A THING THAT YOU THINK IS AWESOME. IT IS.

[milktasteslikegood]

during my first year at university if i was hunting the d i would just bring my DS to class and ask a boy if he played pokemon.