And fun in the city is EXPENSIVE.
And my bank account is yelling at me like: get thee to a library.
And so I did.
During my blog vacation I spent all my money I don't have, but I also read.
I re-read Plath's The Bell Jar for book club and loved every unstable braying "I am I am I am" moment of it.
I read Mitford's biography of Zelda Fitzgerald where I remembered "the faded gray romance" because who doesn't love tragic beauty and poetry and destructive lifestyles?
Then, for the Fourth of July, I read Marable's biography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention where I delved into the interesting life of a charismatic man full of contradiction.
My brain and bank account are proud of my free reading.
"It is summer time and past time - and I am very young when I didn't care...I wish I had been what I thought I was; and so debonair; and so debonair."
Zelda
Zelda
Dear claires,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad my comment inspired a post. do you know what else is free and fun.
THE BEACH.
go with ams to the beach, take pics and post them. I am severely lacking summer lake times.
thanks,
your blog
Blog vacation? I was starting to get worried my favourite blog was going to die!!
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you back.
And if you DO go to the beach, remember to take a book.....did I just say that to YOU?
AMS - I will be happy to beach it up with you!
ReplyDeleteJabba - It was weird to not post. Maybe I was burnt out for a minute? But I"m BACK!!
And yes, many of my free and fun things involve reading somewhere...of course : )