It's funny I haven't written about it. I've had it for a few weeks now. It's beautiful,white, shiny and sexy. My new Macbook. I open it up in my bedroom at night and connect to the wireless public network in my area and stay up all night getting up to all kind of silliness, nostalgia and general time wastage. But sometimes, it's really personal,and private and good. It's really a bit overwhelming the things you can do on the internet and the hours you can spend on it doing almost nothing. I mean Youtube alone can take you a journey down memory lane that doesn't end until you pass out. Then of course are the dozens of other numerous sites for television shows where you can watch entire seasons of current television shows, even cable! I have over 300 favorite Youtube clips in my account and last night I spent time (after doing a little research for the office) looking at some of them. God! I love them like things that really matter! Relics of the past captured forever in a digital vacuum.
I've also started to collect a few of my favorite old YA (that's Young Adult for those of you who don't read books any longer) books from when I was a girl. I'm kind of embarrassed to be seen reading them on the train but the thing is they really take me right back to all the feelings I had when I read them for the first time. I've been ordering them from Amazon because most of the stuff I read when I was a pre-teen (that word just makes me think Judy Blume "Are You There It's Me Margaret?") is out of print now. And although some of them have been re-released with new covers, the old covers hold a certain magic for me than cannot be replaced and so I've been trying get the originals. They're actually dirt cheap on Amazon, I guess because they're used and old and no one is looking for them which works out great for me. They're precious. I imagine, if they're not yellowed and falling apart by the time I have a kid I may pass them on to her or him. I really was obsessed with the coming of age genre and I was so romanced by being in that stage of life myself and very reluctant to leave it. So what happened was I read that genre for a long time even in my 20s. I think it's one of the reasons I look younger than I am. Really! I think it's because deep down inside, I'm really always a "pre-teen."
Fave YA Reads
-"The Handsome Man" by Larry Guest (My all time favorite!)
-"Sooner of Later" by Bruce and Carole Hart
-"Waiting Games" (Sequel to the above) by Bruce and Carole Hart
-"The Silver Kiss" by Annette Curtis Klause
- "Up in Seth's Room" by Norma Fox Mazer (just in)
- "As Long as We're Together" by Judy Blume
Still in line
-"The Truth About Me and Bobby V." (One of first and only Sweet Dreams novels I ever read about a Black girl. I LOVED THIS BOOK)
-"If This is Love I'll Take Spaghetti" by Ellen Conford, a series of really clever and snarky short stories about love and anti-love
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