The story of a writer who wakes up one day to discover that she is not as happy with her life as she would have hoped. Much like the woman Julia Roberts plays in Larry Crowne, our hero finds that her layabout husband with his half-assed plans and never fulfilled dreams is not going to be a part of her future. She throws her hands in the air and leaves him. She instantly hooks up with a whiny actor and moves in with him, seeing as she gave all her worldly possessions to her soon to be ex-husband. While living…
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The Woman Who Fell From The Sky
“Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!” ~Steve Martin The Woman Who Fell From The Sky is the story of an amoral American home wrecker who moves to Yemen for a year to be the Editor of an English language newspaper. Ok, the homewrecking bit comes late in the story, but it cast it’s shadow over the entire book for me. Jennifer Steil encounters reporters who don’t read or write very good English, a culture where women are treated as third or fourth class citizens, and the fondness of everyone in Yemen for Qat-the mood altering drug…
The Ramen Girl starring Brittany Murphy
The Karate Kid with Noodles is how the wife described this quirky little film. The Ramen Girl is the story of a harebrained woman who follows her boyfriend to Japan, only to have him dump her as he heads off to greener pastures. The Fates intervene and guide her from her boring job as an office drone to take up the noble task of learning how to make soup. In standard When the Student is Ready the Master will Appear fashion our hero has a hard time working in the Ramen shop across the street from her apartment. Like all…