LJ on a casual Tuesday
May. 10th, 2005 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiper-0: Mr. Crowe's new album is supposed to be out today, but alas, word has it that it has not yet arrived on iTunes. There is much lamenting and gnashing of teeth going on on Gruntland. I have not yet commenced my own lamenting, as I wasn't expecting to download it till I got home today anyway, but! Any of the Crowe fans on my Friends list got it yet?
+/-1: I'm in the middle of reading a mystery called Death on a Casual Friday, by Sharon Duncan, and I'm finding it an odd read because I'm totally failing to relate to the protagonist. She's an older woman; she's got a daughter in college. But it's not really her age that's causing my failure to relate--it's her choice of lover, pure and simple. We are told that the guy met her while he was married, that he divorced his wife of twenty years, and moved up to the Pacific Northwest--presumably to be with the protagonist. And yet, I've seen no sign really that this guy is committed to making a life with her; in fact, his function in the plot seems mostly to be absent, doing his own work, while the protagonist angsts about whether his resumption of contact with his own daughter means her relationship with him is doomed. I am totally failing to sympathize with this. Part of me supposes that this kind of domestic situation might be considered "real" in today's society. But on the other hand, after watching my mother go through two marriages and my father go through FOUR as a child and a teen, I'm extra-special sensitive to wanting a lifemating to mean something. So I have no sympathy for a lover who'd have bailed on a twenty-year committment to another person... and by extension, little sympathy for a woman who'd have a relationship with someone who'd do that.
Also, the title seems to have exactly nothing to do with the actual plot. The only link I've been able to see so far is that the protagonist lives in Friday Harbor. And as a reader and a writer both, I'd like to see at least some connection between title and story. I'm trying to decide if I'm interested enough in the story to finish it; I'm about two-thirds of the way through at this point. Don't know yet.
And meanwhile...
Monday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 103.66
Miles to Rivendell: 354.34
+/-1: I'm in the middle of reading a mystery called Death on a Casual Friday, by Sharon Duncan, and I'm finding it an odd read because I'm totally failing to relate to the protagonist. She's an older woman; she's got a daughter in college. But it's not really her age that's causing my failure to relate--it's her choice of lover, pure and simple. We are told that the guy met her while he was married, that he divorced his wife of twenty years, and moved up to the Pacific Northwest--presumably to be with the protagonist. And yet, I've seen no sign really that this guy is committed to making a life with her; in fact, his function in the plot seems mostly to be absent, doing his own work, while the protagonist angsts about whether his resumption of contact with his own daughter means her relationship with him is doomed. I am totally failing to sympathize with this. Part of me supposes that this kind of domestic situation might be considered "real" in today's society. But on the other hand, after watching my mother go through two marriages and my father go through FOUR as a child and a teen, I'm extra-special sensitive to wanting a lifemating to mean something. So I have no sympathy for a lover who'd have bailed on a twenty-year committment to another person... and by extension, little sympathy for a woman who'd have a relationship with someone who'd do that.
Also, the title seems to have exactly nothing to do with the actual plot. The only link I've been able to see so far is that the protagonist lives in Friday Harbor. And as a reader and a writer both, I'd like to see at least some connection between title and story. I'm trying to decide if I'm interested enough in the story to finish it; I'm about two-thirds of the way through at this point. Don't know yet.
And meanwhile...
Monday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 103.66
Miles to Rivendell: 354.34