(From Chris Bishop’s online cartoon Her![Girl vs Pig])
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~e.e. cummings
It is Thursday, it has already been a long and tiring week, and I need a smile. A little laughter. Go ahead and have a little for yourself. Go on, its okay. You need it.
(Tales of Adventure, image copyright David Palumbo)
Time really does pass rather quickly and old habits are indeed hard to break. Both truisms collided in the month of January as I attempted to get a solid start to my book reading for the year. I am a multi-task individual when it comes to reading. My sidebar tells the tale better than I do, revealing in none-too-subtle ways that I am juggling more than one book at a time. Looking back I realize that this is a habit I began when I moved to Kansas City. Something in the Missouri air rerouted my brain chemistry and a more-than-one-book-at-a-time reader was born. Prior to last year this habit resulted in my reading a tremendous amount of material page-wise yet finishing few books. Last year I doubled my reading output due to sticking to my uberlist goals. For January, just for fun, I decided to turn back the clock.
Mary’s monthly get-together with our dear friends, the Tarts, necessitated Tori and I getting out of the house for awhile Saturday evening. Okay, that is not really true but it was a good excuse anyway. I decided to play the ‘cool dad’ roll and take her to the movie she had recently asked to see, Blood and Chocolate. Based on Annette Curtis Klause’s young adult novel of the same name, Blood and Chocolate presents the familiar Romeo and Juliet story told against the backdrop of werewolves in Bucharest. While it may sound silly and appear to be an Underworld ripoff, both of which it is at times, Blood and Chocolate is actually a surprisingly enjoyable film.
In preparing for this review, I decided to repeat the actions of my review of Moonraker by reading the Amazon.com summary of the plot of the Diamonds are Forever film. The only thing I came away with from said exercise is the fact that I cannot believe whomever owned the Bond rights at the time allowed this film to be made. Could they have even read the book? Unlike Moonraker, this film does seem to represent a few more actual plot points from the book…just a few. The experience I had with this book is similar to that I have had with the others…I came away with a healthy respect for the writing talents of Ian Fleming.
(Image by Sir Frank Dicksee)
Unfortunately I am having intermittent internet access on the home front and it has not been working for me this morning on my home pc to finish the Friday Favorites. Cable Co. is scheduled to come out Tuesday morning. In the event that I can get online this weekend I will certainly get on with my February Friday Favorite plans. And now back to your regularly scheduled “Thank God It’s Friday” activities…