My Porch Plants. They got watered quite a bit last night- we had rain. We were surprised to have rain. And I sort of wasted water on the grass etc earlier- because- it actually never looked like it would rain.
Today husband and daughter are going on a short adventure to Freeport to pick up a new lawn mower daughter is buying from her friend. In two hours I need to have husband "sorted, as the Brits say" and out on the road. From then on it's my daughter's circus. And not my monkey.
I am reading an American author's book "The Writing Class" by Jincy Willett. The characters, as described by the author- are as unattractive as they can get. The teacher is described as "having a yard wide butt and a beat up vinyl briefcase.......a contender once, it's obvious; she's got great hair, long wavy and thick and white gold but she's pushing 60, pushing 200 and wears poly fat pants and and a Big and Tall men's long sleeved shirt with the ragged sleeves rolled up." Wow. Could be me only I would NEVER wear poly or a men's tee shirt. Tent sized linen and it's me but 15 years older and NEVER a contender.
The briefcase in my closet is very old Gucci--just saying........ (and laughing). The author is an older woman with long white hair- picture on the back inside cover. I checked because.....I thought it might be a man writing and then I would take the book back unread.
Quite an opening sentence for the first chapter with the title- The Fat Broad. I am 54 pages in and have absolutely no idea where this is going--yard wide butt and all.
Each student reads some of the book they are writing and then the others speak if they have anything to say about the work. I am not sure the hook has been set yet.....I could still slip away.
3 comments:
Well, the book sounds fairly awful but your porch plants are fairly lovely
I’d be out of that book already, I think. But good god, how many books do you read a week?!!
I try and read a book a day.
But I refuse to read a dull or badly written book. Or a book with ugly characters- ugly inside for no reason.
If I had stopped reading the Writing Class- I would have missed out on some very well written pages.
along with some very disturbing pages.
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