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Jan. 9th, 2014 10:33 pm1. Attempted to watch the two hour season premiere of Dowton Abbey, attention kept wandering, so stopped and saved it for another time, and watched one of the three Sleepy Hollow episodes remaining on my DVR. This one was entitled Necromancer, and like the others - is rather fun, disarmingly different in both casting choices and its tongue firmly in cheek approach to American History. (If you didn't study the American Revolution ad naseum as a child, you may not appreciate the humor.) Also, Abby and Icabode make a great comedy team.
I adore all the characters, well except for Katrina - who I find a wee bit cloying. This episode revealed why the Horseman is after Icabode, and it did reference the original tale of Sleepy Hollow. (ie. in the original the fight between Icabode and the Horseman had to do with Katrina...here as well.) Clever that.
It always makes me laugh at any rate. Downton Abbey on the other hand has lost its sense of humor - it was rather funny in the first season...now its sort of drab and humorless.
2. Decided to forgo Whole Foods tonight in favor of Union Market on Court Street. ( Read more... )
3. While I'm still enjoying The Husband's Secret - it is starting to remind me a little of a chick-lit ( a category name that I personally find offensive). What I find fascinating about women's contemporary literature is how self-defeating and critical of themselves and their gender - women are. This is particularly true in chick-lit. Also, how we tend to blame ourselves for things. There's also a lot of body image issues conveyed. A big trope in chick-lit is body image issues - ie, being too fat or too thin or not in good shape. In this novel - the worry over weight, body image, attractiveness to the opposite sex, is almost over-examined. To the point that some of the reviewers on Good Reads saw the book as being a wee bit shallow or the female characters portrayed as shallow. (But I beg to differ - we live in a society that is obsessed with looks, body image, and physical appearance, and always has been. This isn't a new thing - just our views regarding what is physically attractive have changed. Fictional novels naturally comment on that tendency - it should.)
And I think that...or rather this is what I keep reminding myself to do whenever I watch something or read a novel, particularly read - is to not judge the story or the style, but figure out what the writer is trying to tell me or convey...to let myself fall into their head a bit, and enjoy it on its own merits. This is the story this writer has inside them - they are trying to tell me this story the best way that they know how...so I'm going to try to listen. And listening requires...letting go of my own ego, and my own critical process.
Just deeply hearing what they have to say. This is what I am trying to do - I don't always accomplish it. Often not.
Good night, sleep tight...don't let the bed-bugs bite...(which has become a rather real problem in NYC the last few years, but luckily has died down a bit. Fingers crossed. Knock on Wood.)
I adore all the characters, well except for Katrina - who I find a wee bit cloying. This episode revealed why the Horseman is after Icabode, and it did reference the original tale of Sleepy Hollow. (ie. in the original the fight between Icabode and the Horseman had to do with Katrina...here as well.) Clever that.
It always makes me laugh at any rate. Downton Abbey on the other hand has lost its sense of humor - it was rather funny in the first season...now its sort of drab and humorless.
2. Decided to forgo Whole Foods tonight in favor of Union Market on Court Street. ( Read more... )
3. While I'm still enjoying The Husband's Secret - it is starting to remind me a little of a chick-lit ( a category name that I personally find offensive). What I find fascinating about women's contemporary literature is how self-defeating and critical of themselves and their gender - women are. This is particularly true in chick-lit. Also, how we tend to blame ourselves for things. There's also a lot of body image issues conveyed. A big trope in chick-lit is body image issues - ie, being too fat or too thin or not in good shape. In this novel - the worry over weight, body image, attractiveness to the opposite sex, is almost over-examined. To the point that some of the reviewers on Good Reads saw the book as being a wee bit shallow or the female characters portrayed as shallow. (But I beg to differ - we live in a society that is obsessed with looks, body image, and physical appearance, and always has been. This isn't a new thing - just our views regarding what is physically attractive have changed. Fictional novels naturally comment on that tendency - it should.)
And I think that...or rather this is what I keep reminding myself to do whenever I watch something or read a novel, particularly read - is to not judge the story or the style, but figure out what the writer is trying to tell me or convey...to let myself fall into their head a bit, and enjoy it on its own merits. This is the story this writer has inside them - they are trying to tell me this story the best way that they know how...so I'm going to try to listen. And listening requires...letting go of my own ego, and my own critical process.
Just deeply hearing what they have to say. This is what I am trying to do - I don't always accomplish it. Often not.
Good night, sleep tight...don't let the bed-bugs bite...(which has become a rather real problem in NYC the last few years, but luckily has died down a bit. Fingers crossed. Knock on Wood.)