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Back in SF!
Apr. 15th, 2012 11:33 amMoomin, in mid-Two Towers:
"He's really racist, but it's still a really good story". He noticed that the East and South people are always swarthy and evil... etc. We made fun of Gandalf and Shadowfax a little bit (My little pony...)
Yesterday was fabulous as we just hung around and cooked and went to lunch with gilbert & heather and heath & max and then to the playground. I laid in the sun feeling way happier.
I read a book of Dashiel Hammett's "lost stories" ie worst and forgotten ones, laid out chronologically along with very interesting biographical details. It was a very well done book in all the framing and explanations & editorial work!
Read "Ivy: Homeless in San Francisco" by Summer Brenner. It was not what I expected but I enjoyed it and am still thinking about what it did. It's a fable where a child in difficulties meets kindly old quirky rich people and cheers them and she and her dad are just what they needed and vice versa in the most unrealistic but weirdly satisfying manner. The heroine is not an urchin from long ago but a nowadays kid who with her dad ends up homeless. The book made me think at first (partly from the book jacket and comments about it) that it was pitched as a gritty "this is what it's like to be homeless" story for non homeless kids. But it isn't that and instead more reminded me of "Seven Spells to Sunday" which felt like a book about magic things happening to and told for the kids who are its protagonists.
"He's really racist, but it's still a really good story". He noticed that the East and South people are always swarthy and evil... etc. We made fun of Gandalf and Shadowfax a little bit (My little pony...)
Yesterday was fabulous as we just hung around and cooked and went to lunch with gilbert & heather and heath & max and then to the playground. I laid in the sun feeling way happier.
I read a book of Dashiel Hammett's "lost stories" ie worst and forgotten ones, laid out chronologically along with very interesting biographical details. It was a very well done book in all the framing and explanations & editorial work!
Read "Ivy: Homeless in San Francisco" by Summer Brenner. It was not what I expected but I enjoyed it and am still thinking about what it did. It's a fable where a child in difficulties meets kindly old quirky rich people and cheers them and she and her dad are just what they needed and vice versa in the most unrealistic but weirdly satisfying manner. The heroine is not an urchin from long ago but a nowadays kid who with her dad ends up homeless. The book made me think at first (partly from the book jacket and comments about it) that it was pitched as a gritty "this is what it's like to be homeless" story for non homeless kids. But it isn't that and instead more reminded me of "Seven Spells to Sunday" which felt like a book about magic things happening to and told for the kids who are its protagonists.
