1. Another gift idea. For me. I love biographies and memoirs about and by people who were mostly famous in the 1940s-1960s. For example, Patty Duke’s Call Me Anna, or one my all-time favorites, Saroyan: A Biography, by Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford. That one was great because it’s about a literary life but also Hollywood, gambling, drinking, estranged fathers, and the American immigrant experience. Anyway, is Christopher Plummer going to go on tour? Pretty please?
2. Personally, I’d be happy find $20 or a slice of bacon in a book around my house. Most often the unusual objects in books here are socks and olive pits, both of which my darling husband will resort to when he can’t find a book mark.
3. What it looks like here right now for the brave and outdoorsy types. Sometimes G. and I are made to feel like freaks for not engaging in outdoor winter sports when we live in the perfect place for them. But winter sports involve several of the things I’m most afraid of: driving in the snow, losing control, my feet hurting, finding myself in a situation that forces me to live on the frozen flesh of others and my own urine, falling off of mountains, and, most of all: looking like an uncoordinated idiot.
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I normally don’t mind winter too much, but #3 lists pretty much all the reasons I haven’t left my house today.
Ha, yeah, we almost died on our way home from dinner last night. (Slight exaggeration, but still, stressful.)
Have your ever read movie reviews by Pauline Kael? She once made the comment that Christopher Plummer had a refreshingly sinister air in The Sound of Music–like he was in a completely different movie than everybody else in the cast. I kind of loved that comment.
With you on the hurting feet part.
I do have a book of Pauline Kael’s writings on movies, but haven’t read that one. Also I often find myself violently disagreeing with her! But CP in SoM is definitely some kind of very smoldering film noir guy who stumbled into a musical…
How come I never find chocolate in a book?
We’re having our own wintery weather here in Portland. The main difference this time is how long it’s lasting. Usually it’s gone after a few days, or a week tops, but this has been going on for over a week and is forecast to last through Christmas. It’s so strange that the whole country seems to be caught up in winter’s icy grip right now.
My local public radio station has been promoting a CP reading out here, so it sounds like he’s touring!