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Friday May 9 - In de Gayelle
Had a very nice interview at Gayelle the Channel this morning. We talked about Dear Rita and a whole lot else. I always enjoy being on and watching their shows; they're so rootsy and relaxed. If only we could get around the wake up at 4:00 a.m. thing...
The painful thing about the day was my route into town. My father died at the very entrance into Port of Spain, and it's only been my second trip in there since. I passed the spot: someone's tried to repair the huge hole he put in their wall. It hasn't been painted, so the scar is there, and ugly gray gash in the white tiled concrete. The last time I passed it I was so anxious I almost threw up in the car. This time I was moved to tears.
I arrived at the TV station at about 5:40, almost an hour before I was due on. I sat in the empty lobby as the sun came up, just me and the security guard and thought about that hole in the wall and shed my first tears, hoping none of the staff popped out and caught me there streaking up my makeup, and thought: My God, we've booked a crazy women! Think she's dangerous?
But I cleaned up okay, went on as scheduled and did a double segment. Had lots of fun doing it; even had a rant at the cops and a belch at the government over the situation of poor women today, and then went on my way. I don't think anybody could tell.
Read my previous blog entry - Grieving for a spider
Dear Rita
Just wanted to share this great review I got on Amazon with you guys:
The two things that you can always count on in a Simona Taylor romance are wicked sex and wicked humor. I've read all of Simona Taylor's romances and I always have trouble deciding which of her hunks is the sexiest. Dorian Black (never mind the funny name) is definitely one of her best so far. He's shrewd and funny and physically fit, and knows some toe-curling moves in bed. AND he's patient enough to put up with Rita, and that's saying something. The man reminds Rita (who's a Starbucks addict by the way) of a steaming cup of coffee, isn't afraid of stalkers, and he has a dog named Angela Basset. He's probably my second favorite Simona Taylor hero after Evan in May Summer Never End (Arabesque).
Judy A. Bernstein
And that's not the only one.
Check them out! If you've read it, leave one of your own!
Simona Taylor's 50-Book Challenge
One year. 50 books. No bullshit.
May 13
Book #19 is Me First and the Gimme Gimmes by Gerald G. Jampolsky and Diane V. Cirincione 
My kids love this book. That's because they don't know a good goddamn about literature. This is possibly one of the worst kids' books I have ever read. The perpetrators of this fiasco have obviously never read to a 5-year-old.
The rhyme scheme is forced, trite and sophomoric. They started off with a story about a land with no rhyme...and proceeded to tell it in rhyme. It's about some selfish little creatures living in the land of Me First or something, and deals with selfishness...but it also deals with violence, rage, unforgiveness, environmental irresponsibility and a whole heap of psychological ills, as though the writers tried to cram a whole semester of Gen. Psych. 101 into about 20 pages of appalling rhymes.
This is way too much for a child to digest; as a matter of fact, my kids only started digging it when I gave up trying to read it verbatim (they lost interest) and just commented on the pretty pictures.
Why is it that people think children's books don't
have to be well written? Thank God for John Lithgow and The Remarkable Farkle McBride!
True A Day
A brand new story every day about crazy (and sometimes stupid) people doing crazy (and sometimes stupid) things.
(You might see random question marks all over the place. Don't ask me!)
What's the reading level of my site?
Found this strange little doohickey on a site. It's a little programme that analyses the content of your site and calculates the reading level required to fully understand it. As it turns out, mine is at the Elementary School level.
Stop laughing. This is not a bad thing. In fact, I'm pretty proud of it. The Elementary or early Secondary levels are the ideal level for most writing. It means I write with clarity and precision, and most people get what I'm saying right off.
So cheers!
Last updated Tuesday, May 13, 2008
