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Mar. 8th, 2018 06:23 pm1. Hee, Outlook keeps reminding me that tomorrow is my birthday. Yes, Outlook, I know. But in case, I forget, it is nice of you to keep reminding me.
2. Co-worker almost talked me into seeing Call Me By My Name instead of Wrinkle in Time tomorrow, but no -- I'm seeing Wrinkle in Time, which is directed by the director of Selma, and stars Chris Pine, Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kalling. Also adapted from one of the science fiction books that I read -- by Madeline L'Engle. I read it when I was 11 years of age. I have no idea what I'd think of it now, only vaguely remember most of it. The fact that I remember it at all is testament to how much I loved it. (It featured a female heroine, and it was tough back then to find science fiction and fantasy novels that featured female heroines. Most were male. This was in the 1970s/1980s. Over 40 years ago.)
It's a perfect movie to celebrate my birthday. Last year I was on a bus, had a sliver of chocolate cake, snorkled, and sailed on a sunset cruise in Costa Rica.
The night before, we went salsa dancing and had barbecue, after wandering over hanging bridges in a cloud forest.
I'm actually happy to be a bit more low key this year.
3. Sigh. Engineers. Sigh.
4. Still in book slump. I'm thinking I'm burned out on romance novels and need to try YA science fiction and fantasy books for a bit? Or maybe read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark for science fiction book club?
One that I'm trying to read at the moment -- "The Dark Highlander by Koren Moring, or Maybe it's The Immortal Highlander?" - can't remember, is making me crazy. If the heroine tells me one more time how insanely attractive the hero is or vice versa, I'm going to hunt the writer down and bash her over the head the book. Or the publisher. Seriously, I do not need to be reminded every other paragraph how much these two are lusting after one another or how attractive they appear to be. Also, they aren't really that attractive to me. I don't find people built like Arnold Schaznegger with hair down to their butts, attractive, any more than I find women who are 5'4, with silver hair and dainty bodies and big boobs, all that attractive. (Actually the women in this writer's novels are all alike -- blond and blue eyed and all look like the picture of the writer. Making me wonder about the writer.)
Shame, I liked the set up -- Puck/Robin Goodfellow, has been banished, no one can see him but our heroine. His only remaining power is to move fast from one place to another -- possibly because the fairy queen didn't want him to be hit by a bus. The heroine is a struggling law student. He needs her help and wants to fuck her really badly. Of course they don't use the word "Fuck" in the book, because ...well, that would be wrong. Everything else is okay. I've always found that to be weird.
And the writer makes a point about the heroine being a virgin. It's repeated numerous times. Which, yes, no problem with that, a lot of folks are virgins well into their 70s, believe it or not, but this character had two steady and heavy duty boyfriends. And is insanely beautiful. And no parents or guardians standing in her way. Seems sort of odd for a 24 year old who had a fiancee/steady boyfriend and is insanely lusty with no issues with that sort of thing to still be a virgin. The author's excuse? Every time she got close she saw the Fae. So what? They were dropping into her bedroom? And they didn't pick up on the fact that she could see them? Come on.
I think I'm going to give up.
2. Co-worker almost talked me into seeing Call Me By My Name instead of Wrinkle in Time tomorrow, but no -- I'm seeing Wrinkle in Time, which is directed by the director of Selma, and stars Chris Pine, Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kalling. Also adapted from one of the science fiction books that I read -- by Madeline L'Engle. I read it when I was 11 years of age. I have no idea what I'd think of it now, only vaguely remember most of it. The fact that I remember it at all is testament to how much I loved it. (It featured a female heroine, and it was tough back then to find science fiction and fantasy novels that featured female heroines. Most were male. This was in the 1970s/1980s. Over 40 years ago.)
It's a perfect movie to celebrate my birthday. Last year I was on a bus, had a sliver of chocolate cake, snorkled, and sailed on a sunset cruise in Costa Rica.
The night before, we went salsa dancing and had barbecue, after wandering over hanging bridges in a cloud forest.
I'm actually happy to be a bit more low key this year.
3. Sigh. Engineers. Sigh.
4. Still in book slump. I'm thinking I'm burned out on romance novels and need to try YA science fiction and fantasy books for a bit? Or maybe read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark for science fiction book club?
One that I'm trying to read at the moment -- "The Dark Highlander by Koren Moring, or Maybe it's The Immortal Highlander?" - can't remember, is making me crazy. If the heroine tells me one more time how insanely attractive the hero is or vice versa, I'm going to hunt the writer down and bash her over the head the book. Or the publisher. Seriously, I do not need to be reminded every other paragraph how much these two are lusting after one another or how attractive they appear to be. Also, they aren't really that attractive to me. I don't find people built like Arnold Schaznegger with hair down to their butts, attractive, any more than I find women who are 5'4, with silver hair and dainty bodies and big boobs, all that attractive. (Actually the women in this writer's novels are all alike -- blond and blue eyed and all look like the picture of the writer. Making me wonder about the writer.)
Shame, I liked the set up -- Puck/Robin Goodfellow, has been banished, no one can see him but our heroine. His only remaining power is to move fast from one place to another -- possibly because the fairy queen didn't want him to be hit by a bus. The heroine is a struggling law student. He needs her help and wants to fuck her really badly. Of course they don't use the word "Fuck" in the book, because ...well, that would be wrong. Everything else is okay. I've always found that to be weird.
And the writer makes a point about the heroine being a virgin. It's repeated numerous times. Which, yes, no problem with that, a lot of folks are virgins well into their 70s, believe it or not, but this character had two steady and heavy duty boyfriends. And is insanely beautiful. And no parents or guardians standing in her way. Seems sort of odd for a 24 year old who had a fiancee/steady boyfriend and is insanely lusty with no issues with that sort of thing to still be a virgin. The author's excuse? Every time she got close she saw the Fae. So what? They were dropping into her bedroom? And they didn't pick up on the fact that she could see them? Come on.
I think I'm going to give up.