It's been a while. In that while, the world I grew up in has been changing faster than I can keep up. People gone. Monuments gone. So many things -just gone. Not complaining here. At least not too much. Not all of the change has been bad I must admit. In fact much of it has been for the good. But at least a couple of people who are gone , I wish they'd stuck around for a while longer. Nora Ephron for example. The way she saw the world made it always so much more bearable somehow. I loved the movies she made even before I knew that it was she who'd made them. I loved things that she'd said even before I knew it was she who'd said them.
Reading a book that has much to do with change at the moment. Julia Gregson's East of the Sun. The story's set in India of the 1920's -30's. If I have to categorize it , I'd call it 'Raj era chick lit'. Filled with inaccuracies of all sort. Some good research and fact checking would have helped it much. But the characters are wonderfully compelling and one does get terribly attached to them. The kind of book to be enjoyed with a lovely cup of tea and a plate of butter cookies. Hmm.
A friend also introduced me to the work of Joann Sfar through his graphic novel The Rabbi's Cat. A work of effortless genius. I highly recommend it.
In the meantime, the monsoons here are mighty spotty. Not good. But there are days with lovely weather and these are to be enjoyed when they do occur I suppose.
Reading a book that has much to do with change at the moment. Julia Gregson's East of the Sun. The story's set in India of the 1920's -30's. If I have to categorize it , I'd call it 'Raj era chick lit'. Filled with inaccuracies of all sort. Some good research and fact checking would have helped it much. But the characters are wonderfully compelling and one does get terribly attached to them. The kind of book to be enjoyed with a lovely cup of tea and a plate of butter cookies. Hmm.
A friend also introduced me to the work of Joann Sfar through his graphic novel The Rabbi's Cat. A work of effortless genius. I highly recommend it.
In the meantime, the monsoons here are mighty spotty. Not good. But there are days with lovely weather and these are to be enjoyed when they do occur I suppose.
