I really don’t think of myself as an emotional girl. The only time you’ll ever catch me watching a movie on purpose that makes me cry is when it’s that time of the month. I don’t really like romantic comedies, and I hated Twilight. But in the past two days I’ve stumbled across things that have made me go into the ugly cry and be all morose for hours afterwards.
Masterpiece Classics is on a real roll, last year with all the Jane Austen adaptations (some better than others, but I’ll never pass up a movie from a good classic book) and then this year they’ve done Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Wuthering Heights starts on Sunday, and then it will be a bunch of books by Charles Dickens.
I’d actually never read Tess. It was one of those classics I knew I should get around to one of these days, but I’d never heard anything about it that made me want to move it to the top of my list. So I came in completely blind and got walloped by poor Tess’s plight. Holy Cow. After the first installment I was counting the days until I could find out how it ended. I saved it for when I could have a relatively uninterrupted chunk of time to read and knit and watch my show, only to find out that *spoiler* it does not have a happy ending. A gutwrenching ending that made me give thanks I was born here and now.
Today Atti slept in until 10:30. He then pounded down two bottles, projectile vomited, and fell back asleep. So he’s either doing some major growing today or I can expect to catch some wonderful little bug myself. Finding myself with a little unexpected time on my hands, but not knowing how long that was going to last, I actually allowed myself some reading time – which *TMI alert* I normally only get on the toilet.
I finished reading the book I’ve been working on: The Used World by Haven Kimmel. I’ve loved everything this author has ever written, but this book. Oh my. This book. It has a powerful moral about resiliency and friendship, and the last line of the book will probably stay with me for my life. I can’t really even give it a decent review because it’s too fresh and haunting. I loved it. It broke my heart and gave me strength at the same time.