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  Joanna writes on Instagram: "Adrien Brody won the Oscar for Best Actor tonight. You can read about him in Chapter 1 in my award winning book, A Movie Lover’s Search for Romance . Rock on Adrien!"  Book description A diverting and informative story of searching for love in mid-life by a divorced social worker, who intertwines entertaining stories of successful love interests with well-known movies containing similar plots and themes. Written as diary entries covering a 15-year period, the author shares openly, in detail, and with insights her experiences with dating, friendships, affairs, and relationships. Written candidly with a light hand and turns of phrase that reflect her personality and make the book hard to put down. Awards Hollywood Book Festival Honorable Mention Book Excellence Awards Finalist Read more posts about Joanna and her books  HERE . Read more information about this book  HERE . To purchase copies of Joanna's books at 25% discount, use code FF25...

  Recently released: audiobook edition of  A Movie Lover's Search for Romance  by Joanna Charnas. A Movie Lover's Search for Romance  has won the following awards: Hollywood Book Festival Honorable Mention Book Excellence Award Read more posts about Joanna and her books  HERE . Read more information about this book HERE . To purchase copies of this book at 25% discount, use code FF25 at  MSI Press webstore . Want to read this book and not have to pay for it? Ask your local library to purchase and shelve it. Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date) Check out  recent issues .   Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book ,  Pinterest ,  Bluesky , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC?  We help writers become award-winning published authors. One writer at a time. We are ...

  Excerpt from  A Movie Lover's Search for Romance  - HENRY, OR PATHETIC CRUSH #2 Just as my crush on Adrien Brody began to wane, I began crushing on Henry. Henry, as in Henry Cooper, direct descendent of James Fennimore Cooper, who wrote the well-known classic, The Last of the Mohicans. Henry Cooper, of the Coopers of Cooperstown. Until I met Henry, I’d never actually heard anyone who sounded like George Plimpton. I thought that high, guttural, WASP accent was an anachronism, like hula-hoops and the Ed Sullivan Show. If Henry was not the highest of high WASP, he would be a parody of rich Americans. But Henry is the real deal. He has piles of the Social Register stacked casually around his living room, along with old copies of The New Yorker , for which he once wrote. Henry is my father’s friend. They went to Andover together in the late ’40s and early ’50s. My father is not high WASP. Dad is the product of four Eastern European Jewish grandparents, each of whom travele...

    Excerpt from  A Movie Lover's Search for Romance  - ADRIEN: LOSING MY MIND Early this spring my friend Candace called to tell me she had recorded the previous night’s episode of Saturday Night Live for me. She explained that the object of my “crush” and winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Actor, Adrien Brody, had hosted the show. Not wanting to be unkind, I thanked her for the thoughtfulness but felt compelled to correct her. “I think we need to call this by its proper name: my pathetic, middle-aged, divorcée’s crush.” Candace, knowing the truth when she heard it, didn’t argue the point. How did I, at the age of forty-three, find myself with a serious crush on this particular young actor? I ask myself this often. I’ve been in love with movies for thirty years. I easily passed for eighteen by the time I started high school, and I could gain entry into any film I wanted to see without an adult escort. During my adolescence, I planned all my free time aroun...