An auspicious beginning ...

[blamebrampton]

I had planned to write a short thought-filled essay today.

Prior to that, I had a dinner engagement with a friend who is over from London. I wrote out her Christmas/New Year card. I wished her all the best for 2007.

Dinner was delightful, and I have now downgraded my plans to mineral water and a paperback.

All the best!

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

How RUDE! 1987 was an interesting year, things were mostly improving in those days, and there was a lot of good live music. Plus, we'd be fine with the economic plummet, because the current one is worse!

I stick to paperback crime fiction, currently Agatha Christie. No good at romances, I always want to hit someone!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Exactly. Though scared witless, I went to see the Go-Betweens in our capital city and applied to go to OZ for a year.

I read her for the romance, though I ran out of non-Poirot-or-Marple books now, bah. The loss of blanking out the worst crap is perhaps the most painful for me as a reader. I once was able to enjoy Narnia where I am now unable to read about Aslan. I once found and felt the undeniable pull of attraction between two people in a range of books where now there is nothing but the need to "mate" making the antagonistic and brutal treatment of a male pleasant to a female.
Once again, and I apologise for it, I wish for a memory lapse of my own!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

The Go-Betweens were such an amazing band ...

I've been quite enjoying the Marples, despite thinking I didn't like them very much. I think I was too young to get all her sly humour and satire when I first read them. And you know me, satire will always win me over!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I read all of them in translation when young and will try to get the Marples if and when I can. I know she herself got sick of Poirot as well, though yes, of course, I find all my romance and humour and humanity in mysteries (not as such but the few better books happen to fall into that genre where the non-genre stuff shines brightly as it doesn't in the genres where it should).
Satire today is what tragedy once used to be, at least that was one of if not the first papers I wrote about the theatre.