I went to the Apple Store today and bought a new computer! Yea! My old Mac Mini is beyond its last legs, but it lasted 10 years. If I had a working keyboard and mouse, I'd still be on it. However, this new MacBook Pro seems to be pretty easy to use. We'll see. I have 14 days to decide whether it's just what I need or extraneous to my iPad. I'm all backed up as to blog topics, so I'll start with the book, movie and theater reviews and go from there. Notes about what I've read and seen since January are around here somewhere!
Mademoiselle Chanel by C. W. Gortner - Coco herself tells the story of her life, including the words to the little song that she and her sister would sing when they were performers as young teenagers. The song is the reason for Gabrielle's nickname. She was a workhorse who loved hard, a bit dramatic but always independent - she wanted to be successful, and worked her program until she built up a success almost unlike any other at the time.
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher - Carrie's latest book was funny and sharp and quick and brutally honest just like all her writing. Soon after I started the book in January, Carrie fell into a coma at the too-young age of 60, and soon passed away, followed quickly by her mother, Debbie Reynolds. It was so odd to be reading this lively funny honest and alive young voice knowing that it would be forever silent after this. She wrote about being cast as Princess Leia when she was 20 years old, how naive she was, and what it was like to look back at that girl from the perspective of 40 years. May her memory be eternal.
The Lace Makers of Glenmara by Heather Barberi - This was a sweet, simple novel about a young woman who goes to Ireland looking to heal from a heartbreak. The people she meets seem simple on the outside, but their lives are as complicated as anyones'. There is lots of drama and hope and it's a bit formulaic.
So there we are! My first blog post with the new computer and I'm figuring it out. Definitely some googling involved to get those photos over here, and I have a feeling there is an easier way, but I did it. Yea! Once I get all the new entries completed, I'm going to go back a few months and add the book photos to my entries. Yea!
