Greenridge: July 2018

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Family Photo from John and Julie's Wedding Reception

Eleanor Oliphant is Perfectly Fine

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story. I can see why it ranks so high on the best seller list. Sure, it has its warm and fuzzies (along with incredibly bleak), but they are the stuff of real life. A slight whiff of what living in Glasgow is like as the writer is a Scot. My only critique was a feature of the book that is very similar to another book on the bestseller list. Read it. You'll enjoy meeting all these people.

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Welcome from Sylvia and Sal

Sylvia's
favorite books
Nabokov's "Speak Memory", poems, short stories and biographies.

I like to be involved in community activities -- am on the boards of local Castro Valley Library and the Alameda County Library. I do not like phone banking (will never do it again) or fundraising. I like gardening altho I kill most everything I plant with over-watering. I like reading, sleeping (a lot), eating (a lot), walking and talking to friends. I adore opera, classical music, theater, television -- I know a real soul-mate if they like Seinfeld - #1 soul-mate is Sal!

A Cat/A Future

A cat can draw
the blinds
behind her eyes
whenever she
decides. Nothing
alters in the stare
itself but she's
not there. Likewise
a future can occlude
still sitting there,
doing nothing rude.

--- Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan was born in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. She received both a bachelor's and master's degree from UCLA.
About her work, J. D. McClatchy has said: "Her poems are compact, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today's literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost."