Book Talk: What Fantasy Serieses Do You Want to Recommend to Other DCIBers, and in What Ways Do You Find Them Similar to Indian Film?

“Recommend” or “talk about how much we both love them”. I am guessing the DCIB self-selected community has very similar fantasy book tastes, so if you say what your favorite series is, someone else is going to say “OMG, I love that series, so-and-so is my favorite character, it’s so great how her friendship with such-and-such is shown”. Because we all like Indian film, and most likely the things we like in it are the same things we like in books.

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Wednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to This Week?

Happy Wednesday! I am up at the lake house, but still working, which is not super fun. I have to be chained to my computer 9 hours a day, so no boating or swimming or big projects. On the flip side, as soon as I am freed, I am out of there. Do not expect a lot of blog activity after 5!

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Happy Sonam’s Brithday! What Should We Watch for Her This Friday? Veere Di Wedding or Ek Ladki Ko Dekha to Aisa Laga, You Can Choose Only One!!!!!

No, Veere Di Wedding is still not on Prime or Netflix. But it is on Einthusan! And, I am guessing by process of elimination, Zee5 (hisssssssssssss!!! Eviiiiiiiiiilllll!!!!!). And Ek Ladki is still on Netflix.

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Monday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me on Shilpa/Dimple/Sonam’s Birthday Week?

Happy Monday! I’m traveling today, sort of. My parents and I are moving up to the family lake house for the next two weeks, where internet access is spotty and the view is beautiful. No idea if this will affect posting schedules or not, we will all find out together.

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Silly Sunday: Street Dancer 3D, the Way It Should Have Been!

We watched it on Friday, which was super fun. But also we got all upset about the half done love story and I started thinking about how I would have written it to have a whole other second half that gave a more satisfying love story structure instead of the very light weight plot with a lot of dance competitions instead of relationship drama.

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Saturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Am Productive!

Happy Saturday! Exciting news here, rumor has it one of the Goodwills is accepting donations again, yaaaaaaaay! I’ve got a pile of donations, and a pile or recycling, that has just been sitting in my apartment. Today is the day I go up and down and up and down the stairs and get rid of all of it.

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Happy Birthday Sunil Dutt! Here is Your Love Story Written Out So We Can All Sigh Over It

Sunil Dutt was a Giant of a man, both literally and metaphorically. I’ve written loads about him, because his story crossed over into so many other stories. I’ll be reposting those posts today, but I have to start out with the most important story to him, how he loved and won Nargis, the greatest joy of his life.

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