Date: March 21, 2007 05:59 pm Title: Chapter 36
i love love love this fic and i'm really glad you updated! it's sooo precious. so, more, soon? please.
Author's Response: It is really good to hear that! Honestly, I posted this thinking that probably nobody would read it because nobody would remember it! Yeah, I'll be updating it soon - am taking a break tonight to re-read some of the older chapters, just to refresh myself. It has been so long since I wrote it that I've forgotten so much. :o) Thanks for the review!
10 [Report This]Date: March 21, 2007 05:25 pm Title: Chapter 36
Wow. Your Michael is exactly right and hilarious! I especially loved his over-explanation of the Dundie award joke, and "con-tentious" made me giggle like an idiot.
Author's Response: I want you to know that I am still stunned by "Vanilla." So to get a compliment from you (particularly one re: characterization) is really, really flattering. :o) Glad you liked it, and thanks for sticking with it!
Date: March 21, 2007 04:41 pm Title: Chapter 36
Okay Michael was so Michael, but that nameplate was just the perfect gift. And all the Jam love from the relatives had ME wisping. These fictional characters make me seem too hormonal and give me a false sense of romance ;-) but I'm okay with that!
Author's Response: Oh, thanks so much! I was worried that the two Halpert family speeches would be too sentimental or over the top (though in my defense, I got much of the same at my rehearsal dinner, so....). But yeah, I love writing silly Michael and sappy sweet Jim and Pam. :o) Thank you so much for reviewing! (And for being such a vocal supporter, too.)
9 [Report This]Date: March 21, 2007 04:37 pm Title: Chapter 36
Oh, Michael! It's interesting how he always redeems himself, though, isn' it? Well, almost always.....Lovely, as usual!
Author's Response: Thanks so much! Yeah, I have such a big old soft spot for Michael. My husband constantly reminds me that, if we knew him in "real" life, I'd hate him. ....Which is probably true. :o) Thanks again for reviewing!
Date: March 21, 2007 04:33 pm Title: Chapter 36
OK. I'll admit it. I completely forgot where "we" were in this fic. So lovely. But I'm so glad you continued!! What a sweet vacation from post-Cocktails hellish hiatus angst.
Author's Response: I am so glad you took the time to read and catch up -- I really felt guilty when I was going back through and reading some of the older reviews. I shouldn't have just abandoned this the way that I did! But anyway...glad you liked it. And did I review your latest (must go back and check)? Loved, loved, loved it.
Date: March 09, 2007 06:04 pm Title: Chapter 35
Wow! 35 chapters and I'm amazed that the story has continued and been riviting throughout. I couldn't stop reading (ALL DAY!) I can't believe that there's still so much potential left to the story (c'mon wedding night! Whoo!). Again, another winner.
Author's Response:
I'm really glad that you're finding it compelling even beyond the "happy ending," so to speak. I've mentioned before that I find it incredibly problematic that most fiction (not fanfiction) ends with the ostensible resoultion (i.e. couple gets together/engaged/wed). I really wanted to follow it through beyond that for at least a few chapters.
Thanks again for reviewing!
Date: March 09, 2007 12:10 pm Title: Chapter 17
Without warning, he raised his head, stepping toward her in one swift motion, hands on either side of her face, lips covering hers as she gasped.
Wow. Just wow. No other words: just WOW.
Author's Response: Eeee! I'm so glad you're enjoying this - really! You're motivating me to finish it, seriously. :o)
Date: March 08, 2007 08:23 pm Title: Chapter 8
Duuuude. Why did you make me feel sorry for Karen? *grumbles* tsk tsk. Karen should=EVVVVIL (redrum! redrum!) ;-)
Count me in the bandwagon that is crushing on Jonathon (soooo Scott Foley to me too- what was Jennifer Garner thinking when she cheated on him???) But in that previous chapter with Jon and Pam- I was very nervous. Very, very nervous. It really seemed like they were going to have a "moment" (but then I always remind myself who's story I'm reading and I'm comforted). Still have a long way to go in this story (30+ chapters! Oy vey! Lots of Spring Break reading ahead of me) But wanted to pop in and let you know that I'm reading and enjoying...
Author's Response:
Eee, I'm so glad! Yeah, Scott Foley is one of my big crushes, and while Jonathan is admittedly a bit of a Mary Sue (I think that's what they call it)...well, people seem to respond to him well, so I'll keep him coming (*cough*, stifling a TWSS) - though I'm making more of an effort to render him more realistic and less like a guy who sits around waiting for Jim to call him. :o)
The weird thing about this story is that I really wasn't sure that it worked - and then so many people expressed an interest in it that I had to keep going. I have enjoyed taking Pam and Jim beyond the happy ending - partly because I loathe the traditional ending at the wedding type story (am suspicious of such stories, actually - not in the fanfic realm, but beyond). But it's also because I believe these two could be just as enjoyable as a couple, settled, happy....
Re: The Pam/Jonathan tension - the drama queen in me was really dying to make that happen, but ultimately I knew it'd just be a rotten thing for both of them to do. So I left it at a hint. :o) Seriously, though, I love the idea of Pam feeling an instant connection with Jonathan just because he's Jim's brother; I think it'd be really sweet in many ways, you know? (And don't think I wasn't tearing my hair out that J.J. Abrams directed - the creator of Felicity, launcher of Scott Foley's career - so, so close....)
As always, thanks for the review - glad you're enjoying this lumbering epic!
Date: February 18, 2007 03:18 pm Title: Chapter 35
Is this going to continue? Or are you leaving us hanging with the last chapter? Hopefully the first. :)
Date: January 03, 2007 04:30 pm Title: Chapter 1
Lovin' it. Can't wait for the wedding!
Date: January 03, 2007 06:45 am Title: Chapter 35
Great rehersal and dinner so far. I can't wait to see if there are things to happen before the wedding.
Date: January 03, 2007 04:53 am Title: Chapter 35
I'm so giddy thinking about the two of them getting to this place you'd think I was the one getting married.
Seriously.
Date: January 02, 2007 09:26 pm Title: Chapter 35
Okay, Jim Halpert is going to ruin me for any other man. "I'm marrying the girl of my dreams tommorow." Seriously? To. Cute.
Lovedlovedloved Micheal and Toby! Awwww! Can't WAIT for the wedding!
Date: January 02, 2007 08:42 pm Title: Chapter 35
Damn! Poor Jim!! Foiled by his mother!
And the scene with Michael and Toby was just SO spot on. Really wonderful.
Thanks.
cheers.
--Lex
Date: January 02, 2007 08:13 pm Title: Chapter 35
can't be bothered to sign in...that was GREAT!!! I just love this fic so much, i'm going to be sad to see it go...but of course I can't wait to read the wedding!
Date: January 02, 2007 08:10 pm Title: Chapter 35
EEEE! Toby and Michael! Like a dollop of bittersweet chocolate mousse on top of sweet fluffy angel food! The Office craziness is an awesome counterpart to the yumminess of Pam & Jim's wedding.
And I adore Pam for insisting that the wedding is NOT all about the bride. I love it when a couple makes up their own rules. And it is so true to both characters.
Date: January 02, 2007 08:01 pm Title: Chapter 35
Aw. Jim getting embarassed when Pam's mom says how adorable he is. Dwight being Dwight, but with meat involved. Jim only caring about marrying her. Bridezilla. All of it...just, so touching and absorbing. How do you do these incredibly comprehensive stories? Just keeping so many balls in the air would do me in (and you don't drop a one.)
And from the annals of great minds thinking alike - I just posted an update earlier today about what? Them discussing their wedding plans, that's what! Very different, but still, there must be something in the air.
Date: January 02, 2007 01:42 pm Title: Chapter 34
You have been a writing maniac haven't you. Great job.
Date: January 02, 2007 01:41 pm Title: Chapter 33
Tough chapter but written very well.
Date: January 02, 2007 01:38 pm Title: Chapter 31
Love Jim's mom. She is cool.
Date: January 02, 2007 01:37 pm Title: Chapter 30
Wow, that was some chapter. I wish she would have told Roy but the aftermath was pretty good. ;)
Date: January 02, 2007 06:08 am Title: Chapter 34
Sigh... I love ONLY. It's my much needed fix of great Jamminess.
Date: January 01, 2007 09:05 pm Title: Chapter 34
Awww. I kinda wanted to see Jim dance.
*giggles*
Thanks for this.
cheers.
--Lex
8 [Report This]Date: January 01, 2007 07:56 pm Title: Chapter 34
So this line: "Besides, I think I threw my hip out earlier dancing for Mrs. Henderson next door." had me in hysterics!! This was a great chapter after the angst of the last. But you are the queen of angst!
Date: January 01, 2007 03:04 pm Title: Chapter 34
Hee, you very smoothly transformed the mood from sad...to joking...to....bubble baths....talented writing!