Friday, July 30, 2021

Daily Notes- Friday July 30th- Happy Birthday Dear Boy!!!!


 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:

Life Scraps and Patches said...

Well, the book sounds fairly awful but your porch plants are fairly lovely

deemallon said...

I’d be out of that book already, I think. But good god, how many books do you read a week?!!

Joanne S said...

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.