WWW.WEDNESDAY

 

WWW. WEDNESDAY asks three questions to prompt you to speak bookishly. To participate, and to see how other book lovers responded, click here. 

PS I no longer participate in WWW.WEDNESDAY via that link because her blog won't accept Blogger comments. I mention this only to save you the frustration I experienced trying to link up.

1. What are you currently reading? A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee. I returned to this memoir, which I first read more than 25 years ago, because I'm about to see All the President's Men again, this time at the TCM Classic Film Festival. Bradlee was managing editor of The Washington Post, portrayed in the film by Jason Robards in an Oscar-winning performance, and was, so I thought during Watergate, the sexiest older man on the planet. I realize now that when teenaged me was crushing on that older man, he was younger than I am today, and this amuses me.

 

He did have a good life, an eventful one. Polio survivor. War hero and journalist. I am curious to see how the reminiscences/opinions of a man born in 1921 will sound to me today. 

2. What did you recently finish reading? Agatha Raisin and The Love from Hell by M. C. Beaton. #11 in the series, and I didn't really like it. Everyone in the story annoyed me – save for the minor recurring characters like the vicar's wife, Agatha's housekeeper, and one of the town's policemen. The plot actually takes us to a French monastery, an excursion that felt at best inauthentic. I'm not sorry I read it because it contains plot points I'll need to know if I return for #12. But I was disappointed.

3. What will you read next?  I don't know

 

  

The Gratitude Challenge – April 28

 

I am joining Kwizgiver in this. That's even her graphic I stole! In her words, "This isn't about perfection or keeping a streak. It’s just about noticing." I need to focus and, using my shrink's word, "unhook." 

 

The Prompt: What is one thing you’ve started noticing more because of this challenge? 

 

I'm going to try to continue noticing. I let myself get distracted and I sometimes miss small but meaningful things. For example, I woke this morning with my Connie Cat sleeping on the small of my back. It was a lovely feeling, but I realize it was also important. She doesn't do that when she's not feeling well, and I didn't notice she'd stopped more than a month ago. Perhaps if I had, I would have taken her to the vet earlier and made her well sooner. 

 

I suppose I'm ending the month grateful that I can evolve and improve.