Book #15, The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams, king of melancholy. This is the play that got him started, I believe. And of course, it's melancholy and a little sad, without being really depressing. Which is something I rather like, incidentally. It's the fairly simple story of a struggling family in the 1930's - the mother who's raised her kids on her own after her husband left them sixteen years ago, the adult son who's a frustrated poet, working in a warehouse to keep the family afloat, and the daughter, with a bad leg and a shyness that's just as crippling, whose only real hope is it find a husband. So yeah - it's sad. And the ending is pretty surprising, but I actually liked it. The ending isn't what I expected, it caught me off-guard, and even though it was sad it had me thinking. So yeah. Liked this one. I should read A Streetcar Named Desire sometime. I've seen the Simpsons episode plenty of times, haha, but recently I watched the movie with Marlon Brando, and it was SO good but after watching it I feel like the Simpsons episode makes....less sense, somehow. Anyway. Now I'm thinking about it and I want to watch it again. So sad, but so good.
Total book count: 15/50 - 30%
Total page count: 4887/15000 - 32.6%
Up next: Wow, my page count is still ahead! Working on Tommy Gun, just like this morning, haha. And I think I'll read Unidentified Funny Objects, the anthology I wrote my opera story about that didn't get accepted. They're accepting submissions this month for the second one, so maybe I'll read some of the ones that got accepted the first time, get an idea of what they like, and get an idea for the next one. Who knows. And I should start something on my Kindle. Either one of the many free/$1 books I've downloaded, or some of the other magazines I've gotten (I got a free year of Crossed Genres on my Kindle for supporting their Kickstarter last year, and I think have four issues already that I haven't read. :/ Need to get on that).
Total book count: 15/50 - 30%
Total page count: 4887/15000 - 32.6%
Up next: Wow, my page count is still ahead! Working on Tommy Gun, just like this morning, haha. And I think I'll read Unidentified Funny Objects, the anthology I wrote my opera story about that didn't get accepted. They're accepting submissions this month for the second one, so maybe I'll read some of the ones that got accepted the first time, get an idea of what they like, and get an idea for the next one. Who knows. And I should start something on my Kindle. Either one of the many free/$1 books I've downloaded, or some of the other magazines I've gotten (I got a free year of Crossed Genres on my Kindle for supporting their Kickstarter last year, and I think have four issues already that I haven't read. :/ Need to get on that).