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[valarltd]

Dollface starts summer school tomorrow.

Bun hasn't been home since Friday. She's been helping repaint the VFW hall. She now has a pool pass and a summer job working their concession stand. We just ordered her summer reading, The Great Gatsby and Their Eyes Were Watching God. With luck, she'll get everything (reading, community service) done before band camp.

I had a safety meeting today. The boss called me for directions to the terminal.
I got $50 to the company store and $7 to Pilot and a $7 lunch ticket. Not too shabby for 4 hours.

Got all my ebooks done up so i can read them on my reader. i love it.

Tomorrow: bank and eyeglasses.

Comments

[kc-anathema.livejournal.com]

The Great Gatsby
Ouch. My sympathies to her. I hated that book.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

*grin* but you hated Brave New World so your taste is suspect. (kidding, kidding)

I haven't read Gatsby yet, but I probably will.
If I can pry my nose out of Bubbas of the Apocalypse
(I love being a grownup. I can read all the trashy books I want)

[kc-anathema.livejournal.com]

:P But Brave New World was so depressing. I demand my literature have happy endings, darn it.

Being a grownup would be a lot more fun if I had my childhood metabolism. I can now afford to buy bags and bags of candy, but I can't afford to eat it.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Happy ending=not literature
Interesting reading=not literature

Take it from someone who majored in English.
If it's got a happy ending, it's genre, pap, pulp.
You know, like what I write. 8)

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Bun and "The Great Gatsby". I absolutely hated that book. I took a course on "modern fiction" in college and regreted it if not for the teacher. All I can remember from Gatsby was everyone got drunk every third page and long graphic discriptions of their drink, though I could have "The Sun Also Rises" a bit confused in there. ;-)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

"The Sun Also Rises" was a downer. But hey, it's Hemingway.

We saw the movie, and Bun judged it more entertaining than "The Old Man and the Sea," if only because it featured Errol Flynn running with the bulls in Pamplona.

In Defense of Gatsby

[jlm121.livejournal.com]

Okay, I like F Scott. I can't help it.
I enjoyed Gatsby simply because it's an American Fairytale and it doesn't have a happy ending.
The perils of excess, the fact that you love someone and they seem to love you doesn't guarantee you end up happily ever after and money doesn't solve everything.
Good Luck to Bun, I never did read Their Eyes Were Watching God.