I am not posting a lot this month because there is not a lot of stuff to report, useful or otherwise. Working. Finished A Prayer for Owen Meany, which I found nonplussing, and Forever, which was fascinating to me as a historical document but less so as fiction. Bought my first-ever item off eBay, a pretty patchwork purse; and two pairs of designer jeans from Loehmann's (love Loehmann's) and a new duvet cover for when it gets cold. Loved "Superbad." Ran today for the first time in two weeks. Writing my sermon for next Sunday, which keeps shooting off in new directions when it needs to stay under ten minutes, and which I hope is not merely words, words, words.
The best things I've eaten recently: sweet Italian sausage cooked with chunks of Granny Smith apples, which turned soft and hot, perfect with the meat. And Cones tiramisu gelato.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Quotidiana
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ReplyDelete"Forever" drove me nuts.
ReplyDeleteWhich Loehmann's, Cheryl? I used to haunt the one in the Bronx on Jerome, now moved to my childhood skating rink in RiverdaleTheBronx). Then I fell out of the habit. Do you use the one on 17th St in Manhattan, where I have not been? Or the original one, I believe, in Brooklyn Arden itself?
ReplyDeleteI remember reading Forever at age 9 and being quite confused.
ReplyDeleteI loved your reference to Hamlet. Ever seen the Kenneth Brannagh movie version? That scene is so funny!
ReplyDeleteGee, Ive always wanted to eat Tiramisu, after all the pictures Ive seen and all the raving Ive heard...
ReplyDelete:)
Waiting for ur next update!
I loved Forever as a teen, but in re-reading it, I was alarmed by a) how douchey her BF actually was, as well as his mustache, b) how unrealistically pleasurable it was for her to lose her virginity, and c) the excessive use of ellipsis in the book. On the whole, Are You There, God? is better, I think.
ReplyDeleteI usually go to the one on 17th, GraceAnne, but in this case it was the new one on the UWS -- 74th St. and Broadway, I think.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite film "Hamlet" is the Michael Almereyda version starring Ethan Hawke, for all the touches like "To Be or Not to Be" taking place in the Blockbuster Video action-movie aisle. :-)
And Jessica, I am with you on all three points. I spent the first half of the book amazed at how overtly sexual it was -- how it seemed to be written solely as a record of their moving from first base to second to third and so on (despite the mustache), without equal emotional development -- and the second half amazed by the antiromanticism of its message: "Think you're in love, kids? It ain't gonna last" --which I found refreshingly honest, if cold. And the whole book I was thinking "For God's sake, use an emdash instead of another ellipsis, PLEASE!" Punctuation goes in and out of vogue like anything else.
And I was talking about the wrong Forever. I started thinking something was up when Lizzy Lyn read it at age 9. (Will go away now.)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful sermon Cheryl! Jeremiah and I truly enjoyed ourselves.
ReplyDeleteLove, Love, Loved "Die Gedanken Sind Frei."