Lucky Seven and Thoughts about a Treasure Hunt

[thisnewday]

Just finished my seventh reading of Peter Heller's The Dog Stars tonight. The copy I fortuitously found in the used book store on the north side of James Street. Where I also found a really nice little hard-bound copy of Peter Mayle's A Good Year. Which I'm in the process of re-reading next. And which, in turn, reminded me of Mayle's A Year in Provence which I've also previously enjoyed reading and am thinking about seeking out at the same bookstore. Because that sense of hunting literary treasure, when I go in there, adds to the fun. And, right now, I seriously need some fun...

LPK
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5.13.2016

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[rosegardenfae.livejournal.com]

Just finished "Hemingway in Love." More Papa to come, I'm fascinated.

Fun? What's that?

[olbuksings.livejournal.com]

OMG. Just read the Amazon blurb on "Hemingway in Love." Made me quiet, for a minute, because a few years back I'd done quite a bit of reading of and about the old boy. Sadly, all of that has receded into the fog that has fallen across the mental landscape in these latter years, existing only as the kind of nostalgia stirred by the mention of Hadley and the Paris years. One of the last I'd read was "The Paris Wife," a fictionalized account of those years told from the point of view of Hadley Richardson.

When you first said you were gonna do this, I thought about re-reading the Hemingway which now gathers dust on my sparse little bookshelf, but there's a weight there that I didn't think I could carry in the midst of all that's happening here. (What's fun? Right now, it's anything that's a cut above despair.)

Anyway, that's why I've opted for the sort of romantic fluff found in Mayle's books. But I'm still very interested in what you're reading, maybe hoping to find, in what you say, the inspiration to push back against despair and reclaim some of what passes for life around here as my own...

[rosegardenfae.livejournal.com]

Whoa...cool cosmic crap and synchronicity going on with Old Hem, his work his life...interest bestirred and now I'm hooked. I want to be loved like he loved Hadley, silly me, too late for that. But not too late for dreams, and miracles happen every day.

"I said I remembered those dreams we dreamed with nothing on our table and the wine bottle.. empty."...I want you to know, Hadley, you'll be the true part of any woman I write about. I'll spend the rest of my life looking for you."
                                                 E. Hemingway