The
goal: 1 blog post a week.
It's
now been two weeks. Oops.
Anyway,
I really have the best of intentions. I have 3? 4? meals to write up, and
my first knitting project that I finally gifted today. Hopefully I can
whip myself into shape and get back on the horse!
That
said-I have finished two books! A day or two after the last post I
finished Slaughterhouse-Five.
Weird is about all I can say. BUT, on a positive note, the movie
followed the book perfectly! In other words, it was just as wacky.
Trafalmador and all.
The
second book finished was The
Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman. After I read Midnight in the Garden of Good and
Evil, I decided I needed to get better about looking into the plot before I
fully delve into a new novel. I had NO idea what it was about and was a
bit confused. The Light didn't really fall into the normal
category of books for me, but I liked it. It is about Tom Sherbourne, a
WWI decorated veteran and native Australian who returns to his country after
the war and becomes a lighthouse operator. It doesn't involve too much of
him coping with his war experiences, and is more focused on his family.
This is the summary from
the author's page:
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a "gift from God," and against Tom's judgment, the claim her as their own baby and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devestated one of them.
It was a bit long for me, but I was able to read it with ease, and found some unexpected tears at the end.
I've now moved on to Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Fun fact: apparently Dahl was utterly unhappy with the screenplay and depiction of Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. He felt it was more focused on Wonka and not on Charlie. Thus far, the focus has been on the Bucket's and their struggles and the movie is still in line. Charlie and the 4 brats have reached the first room with the chocolate waterfall (DANGER AGUSTUS!!) and have just seem the Oompa Loompas. :)
I'm ALMOST caught up to where I should be with my book list. I should finish Charlie tonight and may read the sequel. Once I finish one more book, I'll be where I should be on my timeline! YAY!!
