Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Praying
I'm sure it is fairly obvious by now that Frank McCourt is among my very favorite authors. Please say a prayer for him and his family...I just saw this article that says he is in the hospital with meningitis, and is not expected to live. He is 78 years old. Pray for his health and comfort, and the same for his family.
He's such a very talented man. I wish I'd gotten to meet him (and still hope to...maybe he'll pull through this!)
He's such a very talented man. I wish I'd gotten to meet him (and still hope to...maybe he'll pull through this!)
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
I decided, since the Disney bio is taking me so long, to pick up another book at the same time. I've always been a one-at-a-time reader, but I'm going to try this. Maybe when I don't feel like reading the biography, I'll feel like reading the novel instead. The novel of choice is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. It is a classic and I've felt ashamed for a long time that I've not yet picked it up. I've had it on my shelf for ages, but just never got around to it. I'm going to right that wrong now :-)
I'd like to add a bit of an aside here. I've long been annoyed with the practice of people replacing curse words with the first letter (ex. "effing"). If you're going to say it, just say it. Preferably, though, don't say it at all. I'm guilty of cursing, too, but I don't like to, and while I don't take personal offense, I'd rather not hear it, either. However, I'm more bothered by people making lame attempts to mask the words than I am by the words themselves. All this sprung from something in the Editor's note in this book:
"The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent people are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals." Currer Bell (a.k.a. Charlotte Brontë)
I'd like to add a bit of an aside here. I've long been annoyed with the practice of people replacing curse words with the first letter (ex. "effing"). If you're going to say it, just say it. Preferably, though, don't say it at all. I'm guilty of cursing, too, but I don't like to, and while I don't take personal offense, I'd rather not hear it, either. However, I'm more bothered by people making lame attempts to mask the words than I am by the words themselves. All this sprung from something in the Editor's note in this book:
"The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent people are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals." Currer Bell (a.k.a. Charlotte Brontë)
Harry Potter
I'm *still* reading the biography of Walt Disney. It's slow-going, simply because that isn't typically my genre of choice. Still interesting, though! I just wanted to post a little clip from an article I read today. It actually refers to the movie series rather than the books, but I think it sums up quite nicely what I like so much about the books.
"This is the true wonder of the Potter series: How it expresses not simply the fantasy that in our time of need we might have magical miraculous powers but, rather, the real hope that in our time of need we might have the miracle of true friendship."
This theme definitely speaks to me, now more than ever. After everything I've been through in the last ten months, I've learned just how important true friendship is. I am SO blessed.
"This is the true wonder of the Potter series: How it expresses not simply the fantasy that in our time of need we might have magical miraculous powers but, rather, the real hope that in our time of need we might have the miracle of true friendship."
This theme definitely speaks to me, now more than ever. After everything I've been through in the last ten months, I've learned just how important true friendship is. I am SO blessed.
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