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Sunny Sunday

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Another sunny day! And it will reach 51, which is a treat. We’re due for at least three days of rain mid-week, but I can’t complain as this stretch of sunny weather has been fantastic.

I slept in today, which was nice, but it throws off my ‘schedule,’ to use the word loosely. So I’m writing this post rather hurriedly because we want to take a little drive today.

I read a lot yesterday, straightened up my part of the office – which needed it, and watched The Music Man  last night with my husband. It’s one of my favorite movies for many reasons. It’s done so well, I love Robert Preston, the story and score are charming and heartwarming, and it’s one of the few movies that our family saw in an actual movie theater, right after it opened. My dad loved Shirley Jones. He loved the movie. We had the soundtrack and he played “Being in Love” all the time. It’s such a good memory. Paul Ford, as the mayor, is brilliant. Anyway, it was such fun to watch it with Don.

I got an email from Netflix yesterday – Season 3 of Babylon Berlin  is coming on March 1st. If you are a fan, I thought you’d like to know. I have raved about this series since I saw it last year. It’s the best series I’ve ever seen. Obviously, that’s my personal opinion, but the acting, the script, the level of period detail, the gripping storyline – all of it taking place in the last days of the Weimar Republic in Berlin – is impeccable. I actually shouted out to Don when I read the email and made him come into the den to read it. We can’t wait.

Okay. Have to run.

Happy Sunday.

Giving Up On A Book & A Reset

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Just something I noticed on our coffee table the other day.

It’s sunny today! Cold and windy, but sunny. I’ll take it.

Well, I got to page 68 in Lock Every Door  by Riley Sager and I chucked it. It’s clunkily written, predictable, improbable, and uses a plot device right out of the pages of Rosemary’s Baby, which was a better book on every level. It’s a young person’s book, I think, and I don’t mean to disparage young people. Rather, it’s geared to the mass market, Gone Girl  kind of audience. That’s fine, but it’s not my cup of tea. As I said on IG, when I’m rolling my eyes at least once on every page, it’s time to admit defeat. Also: if I read a book and think that I could have done better (and I have no illusions about being good enough to write a novel) it’s time to move on. Anyway, it’s going back to the library today and I’ll start Hi Five  by Joe Ide, a highly skilled writer. That makes 3 out of the 4 library books ready to return, with only one to go. Two read, one started but not finished. By the way, I very much enjoyed Blue Moon  by Lee Child. Finished it in bed last night.

We watched An Inspector Calls  last night on Amazon Prime. It’s a BBC version of the play by J. B. Priestly, a play I’ve seemingly always known about but have never seen. Excellent. Don and I are still talking about it this morning.

Other than that, life is fairly routine lately. Except for this morning when I was briefly locked in the bedroom, Don spilled a container of baking soda all over the floor, and knocked over my egg cups on top of the cubby. One fell to the floor, but nothing was broken. I told him that we need a reset!

Deep breath. And let’s start over.

Happy Wednesday.

Still Life

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This was my view as Don and I sat on the sofa for our second cup of coffee. A still life of our favorite things. Don is playing that guitar as I write this.

I read the script for Jane Eyre  yesterday and I’ll be speaking with Elizabeth, the director, either today or tomorrow to firm up what she needs and wants from me for this production. Looks like I’ll be spending a couple of days in Hartford next week. The first rehearsal is Tuesday and I’ll work with the actors a bit on Wednesday. I may go in on Monday evening so I don’t have to stress about trying to get there in the morning with the usual traffic jams on the Interstate. We’ll see.

Today I’ll be doing research on the dialects required for this production. That’s always fun!

I’m nearing the end of Jane Eyre  (the novel.) It’s a beautifully written and powerful story. Even though I knew the story going in, I have been enriched by the pleasure of reading Brontë’s prose. I suspect I started to read it when I was young but never finished it. So here I am, all these years later, finally  reading it! It was worth the wait.

Last night, we watched the first episode of the final season of Schitt’s Creek.  I love that show and will be so sorry to see it end. It’s simply wonderful. It’s on POP TV here in the States and on the CBC in Canada. Eventually, once this airing of the final season has ended, it will move to Netflix. The actors are brilliant and actor/producer/writer Dan Levy (son of Eugene Levy) is a force to be reckoned with.

I’m off to have some breakfast and then do some work.

Happy Wednesday.

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