The End of the Literary Drought
May 22, 2007 at 10:02 AM
by Ashleigh
Now that I've had that brief incarnation as a Evangelical minister, of which I have far far too much experience, being as the church my gran attended when I was a kid often had revivals with ministers sent over from the USA. Not to mention film revivals where we got to watch Oral Roberts and Jim Bakker every night for a whole week! Gasp! I feel a spell comin' on! Hold me now! One day I'll tell you about how my friend and I paddled in the baptism font. Strangely we were not struck down by the wrath of Jesus!
So I've been reading again. The trip to France where we had nothing to do except lounge, half heartedly play sport, eat, and lounge some more allowed me to fully enjoy Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Since then I had a bit of drought again until yesterday when I wandered into the bookshop and bought two books recommended by herschelian. Joanna Trollope's Second Honeymoon
I love Anne Tyler and I have no problems reading her work (except when I was in the long dark teatime of not reading). So far the Trollope book is great. I can idenfity with Edie, the protagonist, even though my own children are very firmly still at home. I guess there's always room to inspire terror at the idea of them leaving for a world that doesn't include Mom.
TV has also improved dramatically, by way of a cracker series called My Name is Earl.
All I can say is, 'My name is Ashleigh and I am a My Name is Earl addict'. This show is so funny. Just go watch it!
Lost improved dramatically too and this week Lost and Heroes come to their two hour season conclusions. It will be interesting to see what happens. I'm guessing Heroes will hold the stage but Lost has been pretty good recently. We also watched the rest of Life on Mars.
I *heart* John Simm. The end of the series was exceptionally good. Thumbs up to the Beeb for keeping it interesting and good right to the end, where they actually finished it instead of letting it hang around forever. We've seen John Simm in other things, most notably The Lakes, State of Play and Sex Traffic. He's a fine actor.
Finally, last night we watched Kinky Boots. Oh, I do love a pair of thigh-high boots!
I also have a bit of a thing for Chiwetel Ejofor, but shhhh! don't tell my dad!
Comments
LOL! More Lost and Heroes addicts, we only had up to episode 17 of Lost and the sound didn't work on the #17, i could have died!!! We're also now waiting on #22 and #23 of Heroes! Life has no meaning!
I read Special Topics in Calamity Physics and thought it was great. What a brain that girl has! She was in A'dam for a book signing at Scheltema last fall, but i didn't go. :-(
please don't tell anything about heroes! we are watching it right now, watching 20 and 21 tonight and will be at the end tomorrow night with 22 and 23... it's so good, at least if they end the story that is. I hate series that leave you hanging. There should be a law against that!
May 22, 2007 5:57 PM