Sunday Post

 

LOOKING FORWARD to JULY

Happy Sunday!

We are still hearing fireworks in the Twin Cities. 

Last night I went to a spontaneous Writers actors meetup. It was held at Davani's restaurant in Richfield.  This event is similar to SNL.  Writers come up with a 3-4 page monologue on spot, and actors perform it for an audience.  The topic was tattoos. We had monologues about:

-People getting tattoos for the first time.

-Tattoo artists taking the idea of a concept and getting carried away with it.

Couples getting tatoo hearts and then regretting it.

We had funny little bits where actors would slam doors or sit down in the tattoo parlor's chair, embodying the character to such an extent you could the emotion the must have been feeling.

Translation (Lovely Prince By Jane Green)

My portuguese practice was going great the beginning of the week, I collected children's books in Portuguese. And then I collected audio recording and downloaded them to my phone and used the DuoLingo app to practice grammar.  But by the end of the week I got side-tracked. I'm excited when I listen in on the language app and can understand some of the discussions and the emotional frustrations.

 

ON THE BLOG

Reading

I enjoy David Epstein's Book.  He explains how scientists often come across a major discovery for cancer or a virus and how it's often NOT how we normally study a topic leads to the discovery. It happens by thinking outside of the box, like the discovery may come to us, by something we have read in the past (And how important it is to read outside of our favorite GENRE). For example we might have read something about a how a certain tribe in the Amazon may have come across a medicine, then apply to our current research.

"The Wishing Game." Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner's life in this absorbing and whimsical novel

I love this book.  All characters are engrossed in this children's book series, and some of them have a close relationship to the author, and even the character of writer discusses some of his issues with writing and I think that anytime a novel has a writer as the main character, the dynamics of a book become fascinatiing.