This house is down the street from where I live and I love it. Big porch, huge back yard, right on the Max line. So why does no one live here? When I moved to this street in 2007 I assumed that the absentee owners were getting ready to put it on the market. The house was painted, it got new windows and a new roof. Someone comes once per week to keep the yard up. I waited for the “for sale” sign to go up, but it never did and the house has remained empty.
Day: May 17, 2008
Lost in Translation: Lilacs.
Sure, Lilacs look pretty, but really it’s all about the scent. Which cannot be reproduced here.
Lilacs in bloom is one of my favorite things about spring.
Three sentence movie reviews–All the Real Girls
Every once in awhile I fall in love with a movie as I did with this one. This movie portrays the most real reflection of an early-twenties relationship I have ever seen. As a bonus, it also contains delightful vignettes which have little to do with advancing the story, but are wonderful.
Darn it, I need one more sentence. It’s just a single word: Magic!
Also, don’t you think the phrase “every once in awhile” should have morphed into one German-esque looking word: everyonceinawhile.
I also feel the same about the phrase “this morning”. Let’s remove that space. We say it as one word anyway. “thismorning”
Gone, Baby, Gone. Dennis LeHane
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
I get obsessive about some things. I rented the movie Gone, Baby, Gone on a Friday and liked it so much I watched it again on Sunday. I reserved the book from the library and had it by Tuesday. Part of my affection for the movie, it must be told, had to do with Casey Affleck’s Patrick Kenzie, but the other part had to do with how incredibly cool his partner Angie was. The movie didn’t spend a lot of time worrying about her which I find rare as Hollywood seems to exist partly to keep women in their place. But that’s a post for another day.
So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I got the book and Angie is even cooler than she was in the film. Ah, Hollywood, you never let me down. Anyway, good book. Fast-paced, funny with very good character sketches as well as good social commentary. I like Dennis LeHane especially for those last two traits.
Overall the book was solid and I was pleased to find out there are several books with these two characters. I’ll be reading them.