June, and I have a lot to wrote about
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avreliaso I probably won't.
it was a pleasantly busy time - my sister with her family visited, and we went on adventure around California.
I keep trying to make sense of Tumblr, but not very successfully. I have some likes, and a handful of inexplicable followers, but I cannot actually to talk to anyone, the way I used to here, or on LJ.
Still writing fanfiction (nothing new posted yet, but oh, so many ideas!)
The world is still mostly depressing. I found I cannot do activism - I feel sad, I feel angry, I occasionally send a bit of money here or there, but even to reblog stuff - not to mention go somewhere physically is so much beyond me... I am not sure what it says about me.
anyway, instead here is my Judith Krantz obituary:
I read I’ll take Manhattan back in 90s, when stuff like that started appearing in Russia. I read in in one day in a weird daze – everything was so shiny, colorful and felt like a fantasy novel – full of words and things that had no meaning for me. Now I know it’s a fantasy for American readers as well, but it stayed with me through all these years nevertheless. Other books had less of an impact, but were also a fun ride. I am afraid to re-read it now, but grateful to Judith Krantz for hours of fun I had with her books.
I started to read about her - she had very interesting parents:
her father, Jack Tarcher, who as the head of an advertising agency gave his daughter a job designing a campaign for a new line of Coty lipstick when she was a teen-ager. (Young Judy hated the work, but the ads were good enough to be used.) Her mother, Mickey Brager, lived with Jack for a year before they married, a daring thing to do in the twenties, then went back to school, earned a baccalaureate degree, a master’s degree in economics, and a law degree, and spent the rest of her working life with the Legal Aid Society. She was also a co-founder of New York’s Liberal Party.
I kind of want a book about them.
and here is Judith's quote that's perfect:
“I write the best books that I know how; I can’t write any better than this,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 1990. “People think that because I had a good education, I’m not writing on the level that I should. They think I’m harboring some slim little intellectual volume, that I am really Isaac Bashevis Singer in disguise.”
it was a pleasantly busy time - my sister with her family visited, and we went on adventure around California.
I keep trying to make sense of Tumblr, but not very successfully. I have some likes, and a handful of inexplicable followers, but I cannot actually to talk to anyone, the way I used to here, or on LJ.
Still writing fanfiction (nothing new posted yet, but oh, so many ideas!)
The world is still mostly depressing. I found I cannot do activism - I feel sad, I feel angry, I occasionally send a bit of money here or there, but even to reblog stuff - not to mention go somewhere physically is so much beyond me... I am not sure what it says about me.
anyway, instead here is my Judith Krantz obituary:
I read I’ll take Manhattan back in 90s, when stuff like that started appearing in Russia. I read in in one day in a weird daze – everything was so shiny, colorful and felt like a fantasy novel – full of words and things that had no meaning for me. Now I know it’s a fantasy for American readers as well, but it stayed with me through all these years nevertheless. Other books had less of an impact, but were also a fun ride. I am afraid to re-read it now, but grateful to Judith Krantz for hours of fun I had with her books.
I started to read about her - she had very interesting parents:
her father, Jack Tarcher, who as the head of an advertising agency gave his daughter a job designing a campaign for a new line of Coty lipstick when she was a teen-ager. (Young Judy hated the work, but the ads were good enough to be used.) Her mother, Mickey Brager, lived with Jack for a year before they married, a daring thing to do in the twenties, then went back to school, earned a baccalaureate degree, a master’s degree in economics, and a law degree, and spent the rest of her working life with the Legal Aid Society. She was also a co-founder of New York’s Liberal Party.
I kind of want a book about them.
and here is Judith's quote that's perfect:
“I write the best books that I know how; I can’t write any better than this,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 1990. “People think that because I had a good education, I’m not writing on the level that I should. They think I’m harboring some slim little intellectual volume, that I am really Isaac Bashevis Singer in disguise.”
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Date: 2019-06-29 12:09 am (UTC)Feel the same way.
Yep. Me too. I tried. Hard. And it...well, I still feel the rage. And the rage isn't good for me.
And I can't march in crowds for hours, or carry signs, or phone representatives, or send out fliers, or lead protests. I can send money, but that's it. Also I can't house people -- I have a small apartment there's no room. Nor am I found of cooking, cleaning or having people on top of me. I would kill them all within a month or go crazy.
So, I fund the people who can, and try to ignore it as much as possible. For a while I felt guilty about -- now, I don't. Not everyone can do this, and that's okay. I do other things that make the world better, and to my knowledge I'm not adding to the crazy or the harm.
Re Judith Krantz -- thanks for that, very reassuring. I did read her too -- I think I read I'll Take Manhattan, Scruples, and the revenge one...also watched the mini-series, which were great fun. She was sort of the female version of Harold Robbins, and I thought a better writer than the popular Jaqueline Suzanne and Robbins (who was somewhat misogynistic and not that great). My parents had these books somehow, and I read them as a teen. They were great fun. Krantz was less risque than Rosemary Rogers and Kathleen Woodwis, and a little less...well, graphic.
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Date: 2019-07-01 06:38 pm (UTC)Most obituaries talked about Judith Krantz's "steamy novels", but what I remember was not sex scene (other books had more of it), but the excitement Maxi had about editing her magazine, and fun life things in general. Same with her other novels - she wrote heroines who enjoyed life very much, and that's what I remember the most.
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Date: 2019-06-29 12:21 am (UTC)I have never even tried to figure out Tumblr, so you're ahead of me at least!
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Date: 2019-07-01 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-01 07:49 pm (UTC)That's interesting! I can imagine how that would make it hard to make sense of it.
When I decided to return to doing some active participation in fandom after years away, I made a very conscious decision to do so only in a way that felt comfortable and manageable, even if it means that I'm still barely participating. Thus: using nothing but DreamWidth (and AO3).
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Date: 2019-07-02 08:36 pm (UTC)But I feel so old and weird and out of place there! and yet - it's intersting, at least for learning new ideas.