RECOMMENDATION SUNDAY
BOOK: Probably you've all read it, but I just reread A Swiftly Tilting Planet for the first time in years and I couldn't resist the opportunity to sing its praises. Some childhood favorites you like because you used to like them. Tilting is definitely a children's book (though: whoa! to the use of words like "suppurating" and "caliginous" in a 12-and-up novel!) and as I read the first few chapters, my enjoyment was nostalgic more than anything else. As it went on though, I was reading as a writer - and my socks were knocked off by the amount of storywork and plotting L'Engle put into this book. To write a series of interlocking incidents, taking place all through history, which adhere to form an engaging, intelligent, emotionally intense whole - dang. I cannot express how dearly I'd love to be able to do that.
MOVIE: Talk of the Town, 1942. A quick-witted teacher (Jean Arthur) tries to keep her fusty law professor lodger (Ronald Coleman) from realizing she's got an accused arsonist (Cary Grant) stashed in her attic. Saw this for the first time last night and it was good for many laughs. When three fantastic actors like that get together, how could it not be? (Oh Cary Grant, why couldn't you have stayed young and made movies forever?)
SONG: My niece's favorite song, which she insists we dance around and around to. And around and around and around. Many times a day.
MOVIE: Talk of the Town, 1942. A quick-witted teacher (Jean Arthur) tries to keep her fusty law professor lodger (Ronald Coleman) from realizing she's got an accused arsonist (Cary Grant) stashed in her attic. Saw this for the first time last night and it was good for many laughs. When three fantastic actors like that get together, how could it not be? (Oh Cary Grant, why couldn't you have stayed young and made movies forever?)
SONG: My niece's favorite song, which she insists we dance around and around to. And around and around and around. Many times a day.