4/29/2011

Room with a View


I was so excited to read Room with a View, but ultimately I wasn't really all that taken with it! The side characters were really funny and well-crafted (Charlotte! Miss Lavish! So good) but Lucy and George just weren't that interesting and didn't have particularly strong personalities?! Which was strange since obviously Forster is capable of writing a wide variety of interesting people! The only time I really got into it was towards the end when she breaks off her engagement and gets all heated about feminism, that was good. There are some beautiful passages about Italy, though. LET'S GO. I was so drawn to the idea of the boarding houses! I guess the modern equivalent would be youth hostels, but I'd much rather lodge with kindly old British ladies who eat crumpets, etc than drunk Australian teenagers.

The edition I had was beautiful, though (SEE ABOVE). The paper was nice and thick and the illustration on the cover was pretty. And it smelled good (not creepy).

NEXT UP: Villette by Charlotte Bronte! PUMPED.

4/26/2011

SO...

I went to San Francisco, Sacramento & LA! Will update soon. In the meantime, check out this beauty.

4/05/2011

POETRY TUESDAY.

oh my god I'm posting poetry in a blog. at least it's not mine?

To Dorothy

You are not beautiful, exactly.
You are beautiful, inexactly.
You let a weed grow by the mulberry
And a mulberry grow by the house.
So close, in the personal quiet
Of a windy night, it brushes the wall
And sweeps away the day till we sleep.

A child said it, and it seemed true:
"Things that are lost are all equal."
But it isn't true. If I lost you,
The air wouldn't move, nor the tree grow.
Someone would pull the weed, my flower.
The quiet wouldn't be yours. If I lost you,
I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep.

-- Marvin Bell