June, and I have a lot to wrote about
so I probably won't.
it was a pleasantly busy time - my sister with her family visited, and we went on adventure around California.
I keep trying to make sense of Tumblr, but not very successfully. I have some likes, and a handful of inexplicable followers, but I cannot actually to talk to anyone, the way I used to here, or on LJ.
Still writing fanfiction (nothing new posted yet, but oh, so many ideas!)
The world is still mostly depressing. I found I cannot do activism - I feel sad, I feel angry, I occasionally send a bit of money here or there, but even to reblog stuff - not to mention go somewhere physically is so much beyond me... I am not sure what it says about me.
anyway, instead here is my Judith Krantz obituary:
I read I’ll take Manhattan back in 90s, when stuff like that started appearing in Russia. I read in in one day in a weird daze - everything was so shiny, colorful and felt like a fantasy novel - full of words and things that had no meaning for me. Now I know it’s a fantasy for American readers as well, but it stayed with me through all these years nevertheless. Other books had less of an impact, but were also a fun ride. I am afraid to re-read it now, but grateful to Judith Krantz for hours of fun I had with her books.
I started to read about her - she had very interesting parents:
her father, Jack Tarcher, who as the head of an advertising agency gave his daughter a job designing a campaign for a new line of Coty lipstick when she was a teen-ager. (Young Judy hated the work, but the ads were good enough to be used.) Her mother, Mickey Brager, lived with Jack for a year before they married, a daring thing to do in the twenties, then went back to school, earned a baccalaureate degree, a master’s degree in economics, and a law degree, and spent the rest of her working life with the Legal Aid Society. She was also a co-founder of New York’s Liberal Party.
I kind of want a book about them.
and here is Judith's quote that's perfect:
“I write the best books that I know how; I can’t write any better than this,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 1990. “People think that because I had a good education, I’m not writing on the level that I should. They think I’m harboring some slim little intellectual volume, that I am really Isaac Bashevis Singer in disguise.”
it was a pleasantly busy time - my sister with her family visited, and we went on adventure around California.
I keep trying to make sense of Tumblr, but not very successfully. I have some likes, and a handful of inexplicable followers, but I cannot actually to talk to anyone, the way I used to here, or on LJ.
Still writing fanfiction (nothing new posted yet, but oh, so many ideas!)
The world is still mostly depressing. I found I cannot do activism - I feel sad, I feel angry, I occasionally send a bit of money here or there, but even to reblog stuff - not to mention go somewhere physically is so much beyond me... I am not sure what it says about me.
anyway, instead here is my Judith Krantz obituary:
I read I’ll take Manhattan back in 90s, when stuff like that started appearing in Russia. I read in in one day in a weird daze - everything was so shiny, colorful and felt like a fantasy novel - full of words and things that had no meaning for me. Now I know it’s a fantasy for American readers as well, but it stayed with me through all these years nevertheless. Other books had less of an impact, but were also a fun ride. I am afraid to re-read it now, but grateful to Judith Krantz for hours of fun I had with her books.
I started to read about her - she had very interesting parents:
her father, Jack Tarcher, who as the head of an advertising agency gave his daughter a job designing a campaign for a new line of Coty lipstick when she was a teen-ager. (Young Judy hated the work, but the ads were good enough to be used.) Her mother, Mickey Brager, lived with Jack for a year before they married, a daring thing to do in the twenties, then went back to school, earned a baccalaureate degree, a master’s degree in economics, and a law degree, and spent the rest of her working life with the Legal Aid Society. She was also a co-founder of New York’s Liberal Party.
I kind of want a book about them.
and here is Judith's quote that's perfect:
“I write the best books that I know how; I can’t write any better than this,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 1990. “People think that because I had a good education, I’m not writing on the level that I should. They think I’m harboring some slim little intellectual volume, that I am really Isaac Bashevis Singer in disguise.”