That One Time I Went On an Awe-Inducing Nicolas Sparks Movie Binge
Pretty sure most of them sucked, also pretty sure that didn’t matter at the time.
Romance, that genre so pulpy it can barely be referred to as a genre can also, by its very nature, be so trope-y and overblown, it becomes satire without even knowing it. Years ago, when I taught AP Literature and Composition, I would encourage students to read books they loved, given the fact the only requirement for selecting texts was to choose books, “of literary merit.” Though the College Board has since attempted to broaden its approach to text selection to include more cultural diversity, there remains a heavy bias against the ability of romance to include any merit whatsoever from a literary standpoint.
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As the most romantic day of the year approaches, now is usually a time for couples to make dinner reservations. However, many are probably looking for ways to celebrate their love at home - perhaps by looking up what to watch on Valentineâs Day weekend. You could always go with a reliable favorite like
The Notebook, or a more recent, acclaimed drama like
A Star Is Born, for instance. However, if you expand your search across all of your favorite streaming platforms, you will find more movies that are perfect for the holiday than you will know what to do with.
if not drastically overhaul them. we can never know with certainty how sincere those claims are. but when an inmate repudiates his gang, as 25-year-old daniel miramontes did, it adds credence to their story. i ran the streets. grew up in the streets. life in the streets. what you see is what the streets created. we met miramontes at the orange county jail. he said before coming here he was a member of a los angeles street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and writing poetry. i like to read a lot. i like nicolas sparks. walk to remember. notebook. oh, so like romantics?
street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and writing poetry. i like to read a lot. i like nicolas sparks. walk to remember. notebook. oh, so like romantics? oh, yeah. i m a sucker for that. even cry when you read the sad part? yeah. most of the guys don t want to admit that because, hey, we re in jail. you know. but i don t care. but miramontes was facing the possibility of a lifetime in prison. been almost two years. my charges are special circumstance murder. big case. big case. miramontes had entered a not guilty plea and was still awaiting trial when we met him. the night of the murder, he says he was visiting friends in an orange county gang and that they were all drinking and high on drugs. while driving around their neighborhood, his friend stopped to confront a 19-year-old man who had allegedly flashed a rival gang sign. what ended up happening was the orange county home boys exited the vehicle, an