On another note, to temper my rant of yesterday.

There are times when I ask myself, repeatedly, why the f*ck I continue to put myself through the torture that this fandom can be? Mediocre writing,(at best), abandoned fics, slow to crawling updates, crazies (!)  perpetual repetition (as if the authors all share one brain) and then out of nowhere, when you least expect it, you accidentally stumble, and I mean fall flat on you face, into sometime really great. And then, for just the time it takes to read a single story, it all suddenly makes sense....

Pressed for Time

Is it possible to fall in love in five minutes? "He showed me what he was reading and, accidentally, I think he may have shown me his soul" BxE Written with Twanza AH
Rated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Humor - Edward, Bella - Chapters: 17 - Words: 108,330 - Reviews: 687 - Favs: 710 - Follows: 467 - Updated: Apr 16, 2011 - Published: Apr 16, 2010 - Status: Complete - id: 5900052

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Either this is a solid 3.5*-4* or my brain has gone totally to mush from the sheer amount of sh!t fics I've been reading recently....someone else read and confirm which it is.

Holy sh... I just was curious and wanted to read the first sentences. I inhaaaaled the first chapter instead! This is definitely the next thing I'll read. I hope it continues like this, because I liked it a lot! I couldn't stop though I should work hard.

As for PoF: I flounced it. I don't even know exactly why. It didn't get to me. And I panicked because of the amount of pages that didn't diminish despite my reading. Maybe I'll give it another try someday.

I'm now reading For The Summer by camoozle and I flove it hard!!!!! It's in the index and also still on ff.net:
For the Summer
Every year Bella waits for the 'Pay Checks' to roll into her sleepy river town and every year Edward's hers, just for the summer. AH, AU, OOC, B/E
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 19 - Words: 176,780 - Reviews: 8788 - Favs: 7,323 - Follows: 3,849 - Updated: Aug 20, 2010 - Published: Apr 30, 2010 - Bella, Edward - Complete
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It's really really long, but I don't mind in this case, because it's fantastic and it isn't too wordy! Each chapter describes one summer. So the story goes on for a lot of years, but it never gets boring. It's really angsty, but the prologue sounded like HEA. Not that I'd mind a Non-HEA, but for those who might want to read it. This one goes to my all-time-favorite-list.

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I'm now reading For The Summer by camoozle and I flove it hard!!!!! It's in the index and also still on ff.net:
For the Summer
Every year Bella waits for the 'Pay Checks' to roll into her sleepy river town and every year Edward's hers, just for the summer. AH, AU, OOC, B/E
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 19 - Words: 176,780 - Reviews: 8788 - Favs: 7,323 - Follows: 3,849 - Updated: Aug 20, 2010 - Published: Apr 30, 2010 - Bella, Edward - Complete
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It's really really long, but I don't mind in this case, because it's fantastic and it isn't too wordy! Each chapter describes one summer. So the story goes on for a lot of years, but it never gets boring. It's really angsty, but the prologue sounded like HEA. Not that I'd mind a Non-HEA, but for those who might want to read it. This one goes to my all-time-favorite-list.

MWAH!!! I just discovered there are outtakes to For The Summer on ff.net. And it's EPOV!!!!! YAY!!! Sorry for my fangirling, but I've been wondering about Edward's point of view for so long now, since the fic is BPOV all the way. So I'll definitely have to read those.

How about you? Do you read outtakes?
Normally I don't, expect it's a story I really really love and can't get enough of. The last time I squealed over an outtake was Fridays At Noon and River, I think.

Ok Ok you were right,  I absolutely loved Fire and Ice.  Now trying to decide what to read next.        

ya, it is an awesome series and it gets better every time I read it. Glad you liked it.

MWAH!!! I just discovered there are outtakes to For The Summer on ff.net. And it's EPOV!!!!! YAY!!! Sorry for my fangirling, but I've been wondering about Edward's point of view for so long now, since the fic is BPOV all the way. So I'll definitely have to read those.

How about you? Do you read outtakes?
Normally I don't, expect it's a story I really really love and can't get enough of. The last time I squealed over an outtake was Fridays At Noon and River, I think.

I love reading outtakes of stories I enjoy. Especially the ones that are of other characters. You know, the Jessicas and Tanyas or Mike. The outside looking in.  I think I like it because things look different from the view of someone not really involved in the relationship.

And I Floved Rainbow's POV in the Sideline Collision's outtakes. 

Do you need an umbrella or a poncho hun?  :DI couldn't agree more. 
I think the problem with FSoG is that the hype is much bigger than the film, so it's gonna be a disappointment no matter what even if it's the best film ever as you can't please everyone.
I say bring on Mr Cross - at least we'll get to see him weekly. 
The one thing I took away from the trailer (apart from Jamie looking hot) was I FLOVE the CiL remix so much, I reckon that if/when they release it that could do better than the movie. 
I'm definitely not gonna waste my money going to see it, if I get bored one night I might (and that's a big might) d/l it. 

I agree with you. I liked the story behind the lemons. It was like a grown up Loner to me. I don't know who started writing their stories first. But they were very similar. The lemons were good, but then, it was my first lemony story. If I read it for the first time now? I'd probably be blah, it's okay. 

But I would do Fridays at Noon as a movie before this one. What the readers of 50 shades want is soft p0rn.  Not a real movie.  And that's not PG rated.   

I agree with you. I liked the story behind the lemons. It was like a grown up Loner to me. I don't know who started writing their stories first. But they were very similar. The lemons were good, but then, it was my first lemony story. If I read it for the first time now? I'd probably be blah, it's okay. 

But I would do Fridays at Noon as a movie before this one. What the readers of 50 shades want is soft p0rn.  Not a real movie.  And that's not PG rated.   

Now, F@N I would definitely go see if that was made into a movie - I FLOVE Pennyward. 

I finally got a chance to watch the trailer.  Jamie looks good and might pull this off, but the girl playing Ana actually looks like she thinks she looks in the book, rather than someone blind to her own beauty (with one exception - when she's in the hang glider).

I'm blind to her beauty to so all's good! 

I saw the trailer. It looks okay. But it reeks of Twilight. When he says something to the effect of "I'm no good for you" - yeah I heard Edward.  And the fingers. I saw that and thought,  those aren't Edward's fingers, they should be longer and thinner. Like Rob's. Or even Fassy's.

Not sure how I felt about her.

Ella of course you heard Edward, its' fanfiction  I read FSOG and thought that I'd either 1) Lost my mind or 2) EL James was a plagiarists, it was so much like Twilight  If Jamie doesn't play this role a la' Edward Cullen as portrayed by RP I'll eat my hat...

Holy sh... I just was curious and wanted to read the first sentences. I inhaaaaled the first chapter instead! This is definitely the next thing I'll read. I hope it continues like this, because I liked it a lot! I couldn't stop though I should work hard.

As for PoF: I flounced it. I don't even know exactly why. It didn't get to me. And I panicked because of the amount of pages that didn't diminish despite my reading. Maybe I'll give it another try someday.

I'm now reading For The Summer by camoozle and I flove it hard!!!!! It's in the index and also still on ff.net:
For the Summer
Every year Bella waits for the 'Pay Checks' to roll into her sleepy river town and every year Edward's hers, just for the summer. AH, AU, OOC, B/E
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 19 - Words: 176,780 - Reviews: 8788 - Favs: 7,323 - Follows: 3,849 - Updated: Aug 20, 2010 - Published: Apr 30, 2010 - Bella, Edward - Complete
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It's really really long, but I don't mind in this case, because it's fantastic and it isn't too wordy! Each chapter describes one summer. So the story goes on for a lot of years, but it never gets boring. It's really angsty, but the prologue sounded like HEA. Not that I'd mind a Non-HEA, but for those who might want to read it. This one goes to my all-time-favorite-list.

Yeah! I'm so glad you liked it...honestly I had to PM the author and tell her to write more stories, Inever do that.

I floved For The Summer, one of my very favourite fics; so well written.

MWAH!!! I just discovered there are outtakes to For The Summer on ff.net. And it's EPOV!!!!! YAY!!! Sorry for my fangirling, but I've been wondering about Edward's point of view for so long now, since the fic is BPOV all the way. So I'll definitely have to read those.

How about you? Do you read outtakes?
Normally I don't, expect it's a story I really really love and can't get enough of. The last time I squealed over an outtake was Fridays At Noon and River, I think.

I'm the same I only read Outtakes if the story is so good I want to hear very single 'voice' FTS outtakes I waited and read when I finished the completed story but most of the times I don't read bother outtakes.

Do you need an umbrella or a poncho hun?

Tena Lady 

I agree with you. I liked the story behind the lemons. It was like a grown up Loner to me. I don't know who started writing their stories first. But they were very similar. The lemons were good, but then, it was my first lemony story. If I read it for the first time now? I'd probably be blah, it's okay. 

But I would do Fridays at Noon as a movie before this one. What the readers of 50 shades want is soft p0rn.  Not a real movie.  And that's not PG rated.   

I might have to go back and re-read FSOG, because out of all the Twifics I've read, I can not understand why this one became so successful.

I'd say they'd want soft p0rn, what else? Why spend money buying the rights to a soft p0rn story and turn it into a PG, it makes no sense....

Question for my fellow Kindle Users,  Do you use AZW or Mobi Format?  and which one do you think is better?

I can't say what format is better, but MOBI works without issue in my experience.

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