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Sunday, November 09, 2003First, at Oprah's Book club, there's a What Kind of Novel are you? quiz. Me? If you were a novel, you'd be a Mystery Novel Whodunit? We don't know, but we're sure you'd be the one to find out. So maybe you don't carry around a magnifying glass and have an arch nemesis named Moriarty. One thing's for sure though, you've got the intelligence to solve most any caper that comes along. Not many villains stand a chance when they go up against an intellectual type like you with a good head on your shoulders and a keen eye. Whether you're tracking down an item that's disappeared or unraveling a spine-tingling plot, you've got the brains to solve the mystery. No doubt, your cleverness and wit will lead you to the answers every time. Good show, detective. Quirky Moment of The Day: I should not confess this moment, but it's too good. Ah, like any of the men mentioned herein will ever read this. So, anyway, I was wandering around the magazine racks, and I saw some really good looking magazines, but when I saw their price I blenched. I actually complained outloud to myself, something along the lines of (muttering) too fegging expensive for my blood. (/muttering) And, sadly, a clerk heard it, and she said, "Like, you'd never pay 15 dollars for a magazine, ever?" And I said, "Well, if it was an issue of Gorgeous Jewish Hunks featuring Neil Gaiman and Oded Fehr I'd go for it, but otherwise..." and I rolled my eyes to show how likely *that* proposition was likely to be. She slumped against the shelf behind her and said, "Oh, I know...I'd pay thirty for that, at least." And after I recovered my shock, we had a rather nice debate over Sandman, and trying to cast Oded into one of Neil's books. We argued for ages, mostly because I kept giving him smaller rolls...I'd love to see him (don't kill me) do Carabas from Neverwhere. Eventually, to make peace towards the only Gaiman/Fehr fans we've ever meet, we settled on Shadow Moon from American Gods. I read Ten Thousand Lovers last night. I cried at the end, because it is done so beautiful (Hey, another possible job for Oded! He'd make a perfect Ami....) a gorgeous, soul changing story of two love affairs...one between a college girl and her army interrogator lover, another between them and their state, Israel. If I did the movie script to this, I'd take away the fourth wall sometimes...see, there are points in the story where Lily, the protagonist, tells us about things that are "put" of the main two stories, mostly the linguistics of Hebrew words. I think, right when she does that, lily should look right at the camera, at the viewer, and tell us these things....also, I'd use narration, sometimes. I itch to write this script. I know *exactly* how I'd do it...and this is the first time I've ever, ever said this about a book. It's such a lovely, amazing, heart breaking read. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 3:02 PM 0 comments |