Summertime and the living is easy…
Wait, it’s January 4 and the temperature inched up passing 50 degrees. I’m not pulling out my summer clothes from storage.
Hush little baby, don’t you cry…
Oh hell yeah, I will. Tomorrow the temperature may actually rise to 70 degrees. This is not right. This is painful. I never thought I could miss the crisp, cold air. I want winter. My internal body rhythms wants winter.
This was an impulse purchase. I went to the book store and saw Clive Owen’s face on the book cover. That’s how I came to read PD James’ the Children of Men.
The story premise was intriguing: humans has lost the ability to procreate. The author’s style of writing was descriptive, layered, with strong character development. It wasn’t what I expected of a science fiction book. We never learned why human stop giving birth to children. We see life through the eyes of Theo Foran, the protagonist, who has virtually been emotional dead most of his life. The author gives us a long and cursory look at the fallout of life without children, the affect on the last generation born, the change in society, and the inescapable need for humans to procreate. Without it, the desire to live withers away into fear and gloom.
The story is really about Theo Foran. And I must say I was gripped by a strong sense of slash between Xan and Theo. Their relationship intrigued me, made me wonder about the things not told in the story.
So you miss winter too? Over here it is also too warm, somewhere in the 50s, our sky has all shades of grey and it is raining.
I want cold, crisp air and if poss, some snow.
*grumbles*
It’s raining here. Like summer rain, full of heated mist and greyness. I drove home last night with windows fogging, that mix of warm and cool air meeting.
Right now the windows in my house are up instead of closed down tight. I guess there’s something good coming from the unusual weather, we’re saving money on heating bills.
But still… snow would be just wonderful.
Your weather sounds much like ours and I don’t like it one bit.
If only it were colder…
But this is really a GIP because penguins remind me of Fone home, a hilarious MandC story. Have you ever read it? It starts with Jack having been turned into an Emperor’s penguin…
Your icon is so cute.
No I haven’t read the MandC version. I remember there was a real cute penguins story in SGA fandom.
Today is cooler. We saw Children of Men yesterday. Interesting premise, interesting movie, slightly different from the book version.
So I guess there was first the book, then the movie, then a book with Clive Owen on the cover? Standard procedure. *glad there are no POBs with Russell Crowe on them* So was the book good? Aside from the intriguing setting ad the underlying slash, I mean.
Oh yes, the weather… I have a ‘It’s snowing!’ icon. Used it around Christmas for a lack of snow. Will pro’ly use it again when feeling like there should be snow, not when there actually is. *listens to the rain*
I want snow. You think if I present the icon, it will snow.
The book was enjoyable. Read it in a couple of days, a sign it had kept my interest. Nothing slashy about the movie. Xan, the cousin, was written differently in the movie, as so with other characters, but still I enjoyed the movie as well. Son and daughter went with me. Had an interesting discussion about the movie. We couldn’t imagine a world without children, without a birth happening in 18 years.
Thank you.
Sometimes I like cute icons. ;D
As to the story, that can be helped:
Fone Home. In a weird way I like it very much and I adore Jack as an Emperor penguin doing charades.
Someone must have angered whichever deity responsible for snow. That guy is so in trouble when we find out who he is!
Maybe I’ll read the book after I’ve seen the movie on DVD or in TV. I often go from okay movie to good book. Did so with M&C.
How old are your children?
It snowed just a little today with the sun shining brightly. Go figures. The weather god has gone mad. *gg*
If I can, I’d prefer reading the book before seeing the movie. Alfonso C. the writer/director of Children of Men definitely put his spin on the storyline. He used current events and added a lot more action which was probably a good idea. The book is more geared toward the discovery and change in the main character, Theo Foran.
My babies are in their early twenties, although, they seemed to think I’m the child and they are the parents.
The jumping penguins are mesmerizing. I’m going to bookmark FONE for reading during the weekend.
They were the best in Mary Poppins ;D
FONE is a bit of a crack story, but as I said, I love Jack the penguin.
*sniggers*
I trust that you are well.
We still have no snow.*grumble*
It’s snowing now! I guess hurricane Kyrill was the weather god’s final punishment for us, and now we get our winterwonderland, of course including chaos in the streets.
If I can, I’d prefer reading the book before seeing the movie If it’s a story I’m really interested in, I try to to so, too. But sometimes there are those ‘BecauseI got nothing better do to right now’ movies. And, if you are really lucky, one of them turns out to be pretty good, and points you to a series of 20 1/1 books
early twenties? *raises hand* Yes, here!
early twenties? *raises hand* Yes, here!
The lovely thing about fandom, age is nothing but a number. hee!
Yes it’s finally snowing a bit here. It’s cold and I’m loving it so much.