When someone gets pregnant in a movie we see something like this:
Scene 1: Woman runs in to the room flushed and happy waving her magic EPT wand and everyone rejoices.
Scene 2: Woman pukes a bit, wipes her mouth and then smiles lovingly up at her partner.
Scene 3: We see the woman and man decorating a [...]
It’s Friday (yipee) and time for Internet link goodness. Except, to my dismay, when I opened my “gleaned” folder I found it empty. However, the Internet has been kind today and I have found several good things to share.
The Mayfly Project
Found through Kinkish The Mayfly Project 2007, proposes that you sum up your 2007 in [...]
“The air here is delicious. Later on I heard the noise of croquet balls, and looked out again, and it was Charles Wilcox practising; they are keen on all games.” E. M. Forster: Howard’s End: Chapter 1
The air was delicious and fragrant with pine and campfire. All around us people were gathered round individual camps, [...]
I’ve just completed E.M. Forster’s A Room With A View.
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome ‘nerves’ or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire.
I wasn’t happy with the story in the beginning. And to be honest, the characters in this book drove me crazy with their [...]
Strike through on the ones completed thus far.
January
Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth
When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy by Geneen Roth
February
A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Egger
March
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
April
Alice in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll
Hotel New Hampshire by [...]
I finally completed Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, Love in the Time of Cholera. Newsweek billed it as “A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy,” from the back cover of the book. It is a love story, but not in the conventional sense. It is an unrequited love story as the theme of love unreturned [...]
