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.
Well, the book sounds fairly awful but your porch plants are fairly lovely
ReplyDeleteI’d be out of that book already, I think. But good god, how many books do you read a week?!!
ReplyDeleteI try and read a book a day.
ReplyDeleteBut 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.