“It was exactly like that,” Cabot told The Conversationalist shortly before Thanksgiving. Only this time, she was the main character. But around that same time, in real life, an administrator at a New York University dormitory was living out a similar scene: tucked away in her office, tapping away at romance novels in between wrangling angsty students. Perky’s novel is played for laughs-a running joke, with key words like “pulsating” and “bratwurst” used to portray the luridity of her side hustle. “I’ll be right with you,” she tells a student, turning back to her PowerPC…on which she is crafting a magnum opus of a romance novel. Perky (Allison Janney) sits pert in her cardigan and pearls, tip-tapping away at her computer. In the opening scene of 1999’s cinematic classic 10 Things I Hate About You, guidance counselor Ms.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.By Alanna Bennett Over 20 years after the first “Princess Diaries,” the writer is still sticking up for romance. and here they are at last: The Quarantine Princess Diaries include not only the previously released entries (now edited and updated with new content), but two hundred more pages of entirely original, never-before-seen entries, including the princess's worries over a possible royal affair a showdown between Mia and Grandmère over the latter's intended nuptials the eventual development and distribution of a groundbreaking intranasal vaccine for every citizen in Genovia and, as always, a royally happy ending.Īfter all we've been through, what could be more comforting for any lover of royal romance than snuggling up with a brand new installment of the diary of Mia Thermopolis, the princess who started it all? Since then, readers have been clamoring for more chapters of Mia's coronavirus diary. In these entries, titled The Coronavirus Princess Diaries, the princess recorded her most heartfelt emotions while dealing with her husband's quarantine after exposure to the virus her personal (and political) battles while imposing health restrictions on her small European nation life during lockdown (even in as idyllic a location as a palace on the Riviera) and of course, dealing with her demanding royal family, especially her grandmother. Cabot's blog, to the delight of over a million fans.

Mia Thermopolis knows just what to do in a crisis: Rule.ĭuring the Covid-19 pandemic, a section of the diary of Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia fell into the hands of Meg Cabot, the Princess's royal biographer.Īs reported in media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly, The Mary Sue, Refinery 29, Bustle, and more, from March until June of 2020, sixteen entries of the princess's diary were leaked onto Ms.

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