What other excuses do you have? Let me shoot them down now: you can wash your hair during the opening credits, we can hit play after you eat dinner, and if your boyfriend doesn’t like the idea of you watching a movie with someone online, he’s an idiot, and you should break up with him, pronto. *shakes Do we have a date? You can do your homework while we watch. I don’t think he’s ever NOT been high at Oh, you deviant Californians. Believe me, I’m still doing a better job than my coworker, a.k.a. I have to work late You watch movies at When it’s not busy. I’m giving you puppy eyes right Gee, drop hints, You noticed? *grin* Come on. Don’t leave me hanging here, all bored and lonely, while I’m waiting for you to get up the courage to beg your parents for plane tickets to fly out to California so that you can watch North by Northwest on the beach with a lovable fellow film geek. It’s classic Coen Brothers, and you loved O Brother, Where Art Thou?. ExcerptĪlex, Approximately LUMIÈRE FILM FANATICS COMMUNITY PRIVATE Busy Just Wanna do a watch-along of The Big Lebowski? You can stream *blink* Who is this? Did some random frat boy take over your It’s a GOOD MOVIE. The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is Alex… Approximately.

But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is she’s starting to feel for Porter.Īnd as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. Or that she’s being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth-a.k.a.

Or that she’s landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. In this delightfully charming teen spin on You’ve Got Mail, the one guy Bailey Rydell can’t stand is actually the boy of her dreams-she just doesn’t know it yet.Ĭlassic movie buff Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by “Alex.” Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush.įaced with doubts (what if he’s a creep in real life-or worse?), Bailey doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown.

Alex approximately book 2