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Does anyone else do this? I feel myself automatically copy-editing as I read.

Example: "He stipulated in his will that his estate was to be divided up...dissolved to all intents and purposes if Black didn't settled down by his thirty-sixth birthday."

ME: Shouldn't that be "if Black hadn't settled down" or "if Black didn't settle down"?

The internet has ruined me. I've become insane about details and I copy-edit as I read. Either that or editors in the publishing world have gotten increasingly lazy.

I'm also apparently into details. Noticed this. Loving new book that I'm reading, because it feels realistic and I love the small details (and it is light and fluffy and romantic and as far away from George RR Martin's violent world as I can get. ;-)) Can be sloppy on some things. But not on those details.

And...I've come to the conclusion the UK and European Estate Law makes US Wills & Trusts or Estate law look like a paint-by-numbers design or an easy Fun with Dick and Jane elementary school primer in comparison. And trust me when I state that US Estate, Property and Contract law is not easy. Not by a long shot. But at least we don't have to deal with the whole Royalty bit.

Review of 27 Dresses...and Top 5 Good Rom-Coms..

Finished watching the truly awful Katherine Heigle/James Marsden film 27 Dresses - which once again makes me wonder what happened to the rom-com flick? I haven't seen a good one in ages. Although, as my pal CW pointed out not too long ago, it's possible that they aren't geared to my age group. They tend to be geared to 20-somethings, with women between the ages of 22-34, so there is that. But I've re-watched the earlier ones and they were still better, as were the actresses in the roles. I can't say I was ever a huge Meg Ryan fan but...she had a warm fuzzy vulnerability and girl next door toughness remniscent of June Allyson, that Katherine Heigle, Kate Hudson, et al lack.

Makes me want to do a list of Rom-Coms that I enjoyed...in all their saccariney, sentimental, hilarity.

( top five romantic comedies off the top of my head )