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usedtobeljsRight, so anyway, I'm over here now.
(Post #16 is because I'm keeping track of how many times I post each year, and I'm just moving right along... Wait, what, it's April?)
Let's list joys of the week:
*new travel laptop! Which I'm still setting up, oh well!
*Duke of Wellington blend from Fortnum's
*open windows, even with the pollen
*rereading Mary Burchell Mills and Boon books, newly republished, on the Kindle. Mary Burchell was really Ida Cook, who with her sister helped 29 Jews escape from Germany and Austria before the Holocaust; she began writing romance novels, in fact, to help fund their efforts.
Burchell wrote for DECADES, but as a teenager I loved her "Warrender Saga" books -- which were really books written in a shared universe of classical music and opera people, with the hero and heroine from the first book as recurring characters. Those characters are conductor Oscar Warrender and his wife, soprano Anthea Benton Warrender, and they work for me on every level. The books are also fascinating in their evocation of a classical-music milieu that is likely gone forever. They are very much of their time, so the nostalgia is strong.
What's making you happy these days?
(Post #16 is because I'm keeping track of how many times I post each year, and I'm just moving right along... Wait, what, it's April?)
Let's list joys of the week:
*new travel laptop! Which I'm still setting up, oh well!
*Duke of Wellington blend from Fortnum's
*open windows, even with the pollen
*rereading Mary Burchell Mills and Boon books, newly republished, on the Kindle. Mary Burchell was really Ida Cook, who with her sister helped 29 Jews escape from Germany and Austria before the Holocaust; she began writing romance novels, in fact, to help fund their efforts.
Burchell wrote for DECADES, but as a teenager I loved her "Warrender Saga" books -- which were really books written in a shared universe of classical music and opera people, with the hero and heroine from the first book as recurring characters. Those characters are conductor Oscar Warrender and his wife, soprano Anthea Benton Warrender, and they work for me on every level. The books are also fascinating in their evocation of a classical-music milieu that is likely gone forever. They are very much of their time, so the nostalgia is strong.
What's making you happy these days?
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Date: 2017-04-08 08:22 pm (UTC)Happy to see ypu here!
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Date: 2017-04-08 08:35 pm (UTC)And even better if it passes before partying. :)
Hugs hugs, ALH!
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Date: 2017-04-08 09:10 pm (UTC)Glad you came :-)
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Date: 2017-04-08 11:59 pm (UTC)Cheers and hugs.
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Date: 2017-04-08 09:18 pm (UTC)Welcome to the dark side!
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Date: 2017-04-09 12:00 am (UTC)[waves]
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Date: 2017-04-08 10:29 pm (UTC)Well, you know what made me happy this week, an owl!
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Date: 2017-04-09 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-08 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-09 12:05 am (UTC)The books are very much mid-20th-century Mills and Boon -- no sex in the romance! -- but amazingly detailed about opera, the demands on singers and conductors, artistic temperament...
Cheers to you, plus hugs.
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Date: 2017-04-09 12:23 am (UTC)And one of the kids at work asked me if I had anymore of bookmarks I made because he'd like a couple more! Getting rid of junk is always a YAY!
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Date: 2017-04-09 10:41 am (UTC)I fear Anne of Green Gables series, for some reason. They just...never are the Anne (and Gilbert!) in my head.
Hugs hugs!
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Date: 2017-04-09 12:18 pm (UTC)This, this news, you here; is what is making me happy at this moment. And my coffee of course.But on the whole, your presence at DW and you being a part of my circle is truly a happy making thing.
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Date: 2017-04-09 01:38 pm (UTC)[hugs]
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Date: 2017-04-10 03:58 am (UTC)::hugs, hugs::
Claudia (8 weeks + 1 day 'til I leave, am so excited!)
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Date: 2017-04-10 12:01 pm (UTC)Cheers for your week! [hugs]
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Date: 2017-04-10 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-10 04:06 pm (UTC)Cheers and a happy Monday!