The Prodigal Daughter returns

This seems to be the theme of my life lately. Unintentionally a few weeks after I moved back home, me being the prodigal daughter of course, I've been reading books that deal with similar topics. 

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong is about the only female werewolf in existence, at least in this particular mythology, named Elena. In this story Elena has been spending the last year of her life away from her pack because of issues best discovered when you read the book yourself. Point is her "journey" is about coming home, prodigal daughter no.2.

The book I'm reading now, Stray by Rachel Vincent, is about another type of shape-shifters, namely werecats. The protagonist is again a young woman who has spent the recent years of her life going to college and then to postgraduate studies in pursuit of a life independent from her pride (which I've just learned is the equivalent of a wolf's pack for cats). She is forced to return home because of a certain incident. A reluctant, prodigal daughter no.3.

I'll have to think back on other books I've read first but I'm thinking that this is a theme that comes up quite often in one way or another, especially since a lot of the heroines that I read have some kind of daddy issue in their baggage.

Pushing Daisies countdown

Four more episode till the end of Pushing Daisies. I have to say that I'm feeling very conflicted about it. On one hand, the end of the show marks the end of one of TV's best cleverly well written show and the loss of well acted, perfectly casted characters like Ned, Olive, Emerson, etc. Even the smallest guest roles in the show are always above par. On the other though, I am loving Lee Pace a lot right now and I would really like to see him doing a variety of other roles. To get an ending to Chuck and Ned's love story would also be a welcome, while at the same time I was hoping that if they had more time they could give Olive a chance with Ned, something I definitely won't get in the last four episode.

The fact that I want the girl that's obviously not getting the guy is something I realized comes up often. What is it that makes women attracted to unattainable men? I have seen a LOT of TV and films and have read a considerable amount of dark fantasy romances. Most of them are just a variation of the same formula, the classic "Pride and Prejudice" one. The difference between those stories and real life of course is the girl does eventually get the guy, no matter what stupid things they do or how many personality flaws they have to overcome. Are they just projecting what really is a 'turn on' for women or are we so affected by them that in real life we are drawn to difficult, unavailable men because we think that eventually somehow he'll be ours? 

No wonder why men don't understand women, I think we barely understand ourselves.