dual personalities

May 14, 2015

What are you reading? TGIF edition

by chuckofish

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I have read two good books recently, which are oddly similar.

My dual personality gave me The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice,

the-lost-art-of-keeping-secretswho is the daughter of Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar)–about an upper class girl living in genteel poverty in post-WWII England. I read it enthusiastically and with pleasure.

Then I bought a used copy of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith,

31122about an upper class girl living in a crumbling castle in 1930s England, published in 1948. I enjoyed it also.

I wonder if Eva Rice has read I Capture the Castle? The plots of these two novels are different, although they both involve a teenage girl living in a crumbling edifice and romance and the tone is remarkably similar.

I enjoyed them both very much and recommend them as good summer reading.

Plus, I see on IMDB.com that I Capture the Castle was made into a movie in 2003.

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The cast is good, so I may check it out this weekend.

I am not sure what to read next, although, as always, I have a big pile of possibilities.

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After a big work event today, I plan to take it easy this weekend. How about you?

 

 

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May 14, 2015

The road ahead

by chuckofish

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My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

The painting is “Spring Sky” by Eric Sloane

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