It's release day!!! Win a copy of So Over It
1 July 2010
Today So Over It officially goes on sale. Which would feel slightly more exciting if I hadn’t already been seeing it on shelves for a couple weeks now, but still. There are only so many release days an author has in her career, and it deserves a couple exclamation marks.
In honor of release day, I’m giving away a copy of So Over It.
Here’s how to enter. Leave a comment below with a TV pet peeve of yours. This is an example taken right out of the book:
“Have you ever noticed on TV or in movies that characters randomly come and go from rooms?” Abbie asked. “They come in for no apparent reason, say something poignant to our troubled main character, and then walk out for no reason. That never happens in real life. I’m annoyed.”
“Want to turn it off?”
“I’m not that annoyed. And it’s giving me something to think about besides poor Owen.” She patted his back. “So what’s the verdict? Are you giving Connor another chance?”
Abbie’s pet peeve, as you might guess, is something that drives me crazy. In high school, I used to watch 7th Heaven, and that show does that all that time.
My current pet peeve, however, is how grossly they mis-portray pregnancy. Particularly labor. I’m 38 weeks pregnant, and I’ve been to the hospital TWICE in the last week with false labor. Which would be super embarrassing if the nurses hadn’t been ridiculously nice about the whole thing. On TV, it seems like the character’s water always breaks, or they have one strong contraction and just “know.” No one’s ever induced. No one ever has contractions all morning and all afternoon long, only to go to the hospital and have them die a sudden death.
Okay, rant over.
So sometime between now and Monday, leave a comment below with your TV (or movie) pet peeves, and I’ll enter you to win a copy of So Over It.
Comments
A movie pet peeve of mine is when the characters cuss too much for no reason. Sometimes it gets to be too much and ruins the movie a little bit.
Posted by Lauren on 1 July 2010
My biggest pet peeve for both television and movies is when the whole show is full of boring, unimportant fluff, and then, in the last thirty seconds, the conflict is badly resolved.
Posted by p.L.z. on 1 July 2010
Ugh, Renee, that’s totally annoying. It’s why I lost interest in a lot of courtroom drama shows.
And I agree, Lauren. We watched Phonebooth the other night, which is a fabulous movie, but the language is so distracting.
Posted by Stephanie Morrill on 1 July 2010
Bugs me too, P.L.Z. It seemed like once every season 24 would have an episode that was just a lot of waiting around, or working toward something that turned out to not even be important. Grr.
Posted by Stephanie Morrill on 1 July 2010
I hate how people on the movie think the main character is really ugly — but we can all SEE that she’s gorgeous.
Take “A Cinderella Story” for example. Is there any way to not make Hilary Duff look beautiful?!
Posted by Emii on 1 July 2010
I really detest end of season cliff hangers like in Lost.
Posted by Lynn Dove on 1 July 2010
I despise consistency issues between episodes. You know, like when in season 1 the characters have just met when work threw them together, but then in season 3, all of a sudden they went to college together. Similarly, those plotlines that must not test well and just get dropped. Um, what ever happened to that girl’s brother who was in the coma?? That sort of thing.
Posted by Roseanna White on 1 July 2010
Emii, that’s so true! The one movie coming to mind where I thought they did a good job with that was The Princess Diaries. I think they did a decent job uglying-up Anne Hathaway.
Lynn, the end-of-season cliff hangers in Lost didn’t bother me nearly as much as how they ended the series. Where I’m sitting there like, “Wait … what? … So they all …. Wait, what?”
Lol, Roseanna. I wonder if we’ll start to see less of that on TV now that fans can buy the series on DVD. Ben and I just finished watching the Bourne Trilogy back-to-back-to-back and I was super surprised to see how consistent they were through all those. Quite impressive.
Posted by Stephanie Morrill on 2 July 2010
I agree that problems/conflicts/mysteries are solved in one hour or less…when does that ever happen in real life?
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Posted by karenk on 3 July 2010
I’m late….really late-but it bugs me when tv shows have that whole best-friend becomes boyfriesnd thing. I know this may happen in real life and congratulations to the couples that start that way, but too many shows do it now and it’s really annoying and predictable.
Posted by Latara on 4 August 2010
Oooh, good one Latara. I agree. Definite cliche these days.
Posted by Stephanie Morrill on 5 August 2010
I hate it when major problems are resolved in 30 minutes or one hour! In real life it may take months!
Posted by renee on 1 July 2010