ask me what I think of Xander sometime

I saw Gladiator in the theater, without really knowing anything about it other than Russell Crowe is a gladiator. I was heartily confused to discover that we were supposed to be rooting for the Romans in the opening battle (Barbaren/Barbarians is the fix-it fic of my dreams).

which is to say as part of my continuing historical romance binge, I just finished A Summer to Remember, where I identify way too much with the angry ex and the heroine is my natural enemy. (from the ex's POV she's been dumped by her best friend for a pretty girl who shares no interests with him and is boring as hell.) I would have enjoyed the book much more without the ex subplot, but I know she's being set up for her own book so I'm trying to be optimistic about that rather than feeling like my inner teenager is crying in the bathroom.