…and what are you reading this weekend?
Washington Square NYC, 1943
John Vachon, photographer
via Library of Congress
Still digging in and digging out of life’s everyday bits and frustrations…but will definitely pick up again on Philip Lopate’s, Portrait Inside My Head [ buy | borrow ]. I’m already into his first essay about his memories of Brooklyn and the struggle of his family through the economics and culture of my home borough.
I’ll also be looking for Snow Falling On Cedars at my local library. Just finished watching the film last night with Ethan Hawke and Youki Kudoh as the leads in this beautifully filmed and acted story about first loves not forgotten against the backdrop of the cultural frustrations and prejudices that immediately followed World War II. It’s both a romance and murder mystery worth watching and as is my habit, going for the book to fill in what the movie left out.
Onward we go – hopefully Old Man Winter has finally left the northeast…
[h/t to NYC Past for the lead in to the photo…]
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April 5, 2013 at 11:51 am
G.R.
You’ll like the book. Though the film did the book justice, something
usually unusual,”Snow Falling On Cedars” is a good read. I’m enjoying Chilean author Alejandro Zambra’s “Ways Of Going Home”
(great title,right?”)
April 5, 2013 at 12:05 pm
lazarusdodge
So…you can go home again? 🙂
The film was incredibly impressive in how it was filmed – which also added quite a bit to the story. When I see a film as impressive as this, I have to read the book. Scott Hicks also directed Hearts in Atlantis, another favorite of mine…