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lydamorehouse) wrote2010-08-18 01:00 pm
lydamorehouse) wrote2010-08-18 01:00 pm
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Ramblings about Life
Wow, the week disappeared again. What's up with that? It's summer vacation I blame. After all, most of the time Mason and I are far away from the internets and whatnot... so I'm effectively off the grid. Then it's suddenly Wednesday.
The big thing looming on my horizon is that we're planning a staycation at a local waterpark/hotel. Should be a blast.
The thing I need to work on today just came up. I came in to an email to my alter ego asking if I'd be interested in a feature spot in the on-line Romantic Times for ALMOST. Um, are there a lot of people out there who turn this kind of publicity down? Even though it requires me to write 800+ words about some of the themes in ALMOST which I dread -- (not the themes, but, as I posted on Facebook, I _hate_ writing nonfiction. I'm terrible at it) -- I can't imagine saying NO.
In other news, Mason and I finished reading HALF-BLOOD PRINCE yesterday, and then we watched the movie as a family. I cried like a dog when Dumbledore died. Actually, the moment I started weeping (in the book) was actually the funeral... oh, and when Harry straightens Dumbledore's glasses. In the movie, like cried the moment everyone lit their wands and the light obscured the Dark Mark. Talk about a lovely image that reflected Dumbledore's beliefs to the core.
Dutifully, we started DEATHLY HALLOWS, but I'm reluctant to go on, honestly. I know the book is a bloodbath, having printed out the death list from Wikipedia for Mason when he started the book. He may be an advanced reader, but he's still very young, and we've learned that forearmed with knowledge can make the startling horror and grief of fictionalized death easier for him to bear.
But for me, frankly, I don't think I can cope with the death of Hedwig. I know, of all of them. Listen, having only read the synopsis, her death seems the most "casuality of war" to me, and I can't cope with fictionalized death that has no meaning. If she got to pluck Voledmort's eyes from his skull before she died, that'd be one thing. But to take a hit meant for someone else... nope. Too heartbreaking. Too much like real life.
We're going to continue, of course, if for no other reason than I want to know Snape's story first hand. But I'm just not in a big hurry.
The big thing looming on my horizon is that we're planning a staycation at a local waterpark/hotel. Should be a blast.
The thing I need to work on today just came up. I came in to an email to my alter ego asking if I'd be interested in a feature spot in the on-line Romantic Times for ALMOST. Um, are there a lot of people out there who turn this kind of publicity down? Even though it requires me to write 800+ words about some of the themes in ALMOST which I dread -- (not the themes, but, as I posted on Facebook, I _hate_ writing nonfiction. I'm terrible at it) -- I can't imagine saying NO.
In other news, Mason and I finished reading HALF-BLOOD PRINCE yesterday, and then we watched the movie as a family. I cried like a dog when Dumbledore died. Actually, the moment I started weeping (in the book) was actually the funeral... oh, and when Harry straightens Dumbledore's glasses. In the movie, like cried the moment everyone lit their wands and the light obscured the Dark Mark. Talk about a lovely image that reflected Dumbledore's beliefs to the core.
Dutifully, we started DEATHLY HALLOWS, but I'm reluctant to go on, honestly. I know the book is a bloodbath, having printed out the death list from Wikipedia for Mason when he started the book. He may be an advanced reader, but he's still very young, and we've learned that forearmed with knowledge can make the startling horror and grief of fictionalized death easier for him to bear.
But for me, frankly, I don't think I can cope with the death of Hedwig. I know, of all of them. Listen, having only read the synopsis, her death seems the most "casuality of war" to me, and I can't cope with fictionalized death that has no meaning. If she got to pluck Voledmort's eyes from his skull before she died, that'd be one thing. But to take a hit meant for someone else... nope. Too heartbreaking. Too much like real life.
We're going to continue, of course, if for no other reason than I want to know Snape's story first hand. But I'm just not in a big hurry.