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    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...

  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 Mo vie Lover's Search for Romance - INTRODUCTION  This book recalls my search for love in my forties and fifties. For several years after my divorce at forty-one, my love life was slim to none. I focused on my career, buying my first home, and settling into it. I dated sporadically, but none of the men I went out with were particularly memorable. I didn’t care. My love life wasn’t my priority. I went to work and to the movies, and I was fine. Then, I saw The Pianist in late 2002, and the performance of Adrian Brody as the main character awakened something in me. My crazy post-divorce, romantic life began with that film. Movies and men became the focus of my wild middle-age dating life. Initially, I fell sway to three ridiculous crushes: first, Adrien Brody; next, my father’s friend, twenty-five years my senior; and finally, my Adonis-like washing machine repairman. As I pondered these crushes, they reminded me of scenes and characters from the thousands of mo...

  The e-book edition of  A Movie Lover's Search for Romance   by Joanna Romer is on Kindle countdown discount, beginning at 99 cents, from May 22 through May 29. The earlier you get it, the more you save! Book Description: In this captivating memoir, social worker Joanna Charnas takes readers on an intimate journey through the unpredictable landscape of midlife dating, where real-life romance unfolds alongside the silver screen's most beloved love stories. Through fifteen years of witty, vulnerable diary entries, Charnas weaves her personal quest for connection with classic film parallels—finding unexpected echoes of her own experiences in Hollywood's most memorable moments. As she navigates the modern dating world with equal parts wisdom and wonder, readers will recognize their own romantic triumphs and tribulations reflected in both her candid confessions and cinematic comparisons. With refreshing honesty and sparkling humor, Charnas transforms ordinary encounters into ...

  The e-book edition of  A Movie Lover's Search for Romance   by Joanna Romer is on Kindle countdown discount, beginning at 99 cents, from May 22 through May 29. The earlier you get it, the more you save! Book Description: In this captivating memoir, social worker Joanna Charnas takes readers on an intimate journey through the unpredictable landscape of midlife dating, where real-life romance unfolds alongside the silver screen's most beloved love stories. Through fifteen years of witty, vulnerable diary entries, Charnas weaves her personal quest for connection with classic film parallels—finding unexpected echoes of her own experiences in Hollywood's most memorable moments. As she navigates the modern dating world with equal parts wisdom and wonder, readers will recognize their own romantic triumphs and tribulations reflected in both her candid confessions and cinematic comparisons. With refreshing honesty and sparkling humor, Charnas transforms ordinary encounters into ...