Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

Author:Laurie Viera Rigler [Rigler, Laurie Viera]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Historical, Time Travel, Fantasy, Single Women, Contemporary Women, Los Angeles (Calif.), Biographical
ISBN: 9780452296169
Google: GY2aQ0cqZL4C
Amazon: B0042P577A
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2009-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

I am now, after being whisked away in Paula’s round blue car, in Anna’s apartment, which is at least four times as large as mine and graced with a spectacular view through bar-less windows of astonishingly tall buildings, all lit up like fairy castles. Anna is bustling in the kitchen, which is separated from the living room by a sort of half-wall with a counter and tall stools, where Paula sits while Anna mixes up a drink concoction in something called a blender. Paula is wielding what I now know is called a remote control, pointing it at an enormous rectangular screen which is situated above a chimneypiece and is, like the smaller screen in my own apartment, emitting images as lifelike as those of the Pride and Prejudice movie, yet the scenarios keep changing as Paula presses buttons on the device. This must be television—TV—which I also read about while looking up movies and how they work.

Paula switches from a smiling woman with shiny red lips, cooking fish in a pan and talking about spices, to two nearly naked men wrestling each other to the floor while an audience roars, to a young man finishing a song and fidgeting nervously while a group of men and women seated at a table cruelly mock his performance, to a bare-breasted woman being fondled by a man, to I don’t know what because I gasp in spite of myself and cover my eyes momentarily.

“There’s never anything on,” says Paula. “I don’t know why I bother except that I can’t resist this giant screen. I end up downloading everything I want to watch anyway. TV is just crap.”

“Yeah, yeah, tell me about it,” says Anna. “The end of the world as we know it, as everyone at work likes to say. ‘The death of TV is the death of movies, everyone wants to download on demand,’ blah blah blah, who cares.”

She turns on the blender for another two seconds, then shuts it off and pours a bright yellow concoction into large stemmed glasses.

“Mango vodka smoothie,” she says, handing me one.

“You don’t mean that,” Paula says.

“I do. I’m sick to death of this business. I’m always thinking about what else I might do with my life.”

“Yeah, right. Ten years from now, you’ll be running a studio and I’ll be designing your big blockbusters instead of the crap I’ve been working on.”

“You wish.” Anna smirks.

Paula grabs a tea-cloth from the counter and swats Anna playfully on her rear with it.

“Ouch!”

“So, Courtney,” Paula says, warding off a retaliatory swipe of the cloth from Anna, “what are we gonna do about your future?”

It is with difficulty that I tear myself away from the drama unfolding on the screen.

“Courtney?”

“Oh. Do forgive me.”

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