Monterey

oh. my goodness.

for the novel I'm writing, I chose photos to help me imagine the faces of my characters. for two years, the heroine has been felicity jones, and the hero, rupert friend.

next year, they'll be in a movie together. okay yes, they were both in cherie, but in this film they are the main characters. and unlike cherie, this sounds like a film I will definitely want to see.

"this beautiful fantastic"

Bella Brown, a chronically shy children's book author, has no family, friends, or social life. After meeting Billy, a messy, out-of-control inventor, however, Bella begins a romance that leads her to interact with the world around her in a new way.

“a modern fairy tale in the vein of Amelie and Finding Neverland.”

california

I've been here six weeks, never an idle moment, not even for photographs.

Lots of boys in my life.

Relishing my day off each week, in a very un-Mary Poppins-like way. Spending hours at the local library. So adventuresome. Today however I saw Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre and though I adore Toby Stevens and Ruth Wilson I must say, lovely, lovely film. And next week we're voyaging down to Monterey, my first glimpse of the Pacific. Sure to be more photos then.

me likey

“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any rate, should be settled for us without our permission. If we wish life to be a system, this may be a nuisance; but if we wish it to be a drama, it is an essential. It may often happen, no doubt, that a drama may be written by somebody else which we like very little. But we should like it still less if the author came before the curtain every hour or so, and forced on us the whole trouble of inventing the next act.

A man has control over many things in his life; he has control over enough things to be the hero of a novel. But if he had control over everything, there would be so much hero that there would be no novel.

And the reason why the lives of the rich are at bottom so tame and uneventful is simply that they can choose the events. They are dull because they are omnipotent. They fail to feel adventures because they can make the adventures. The thing which keeps life romantic and full of fiery possibilities is the existence of these great plain limitations which force all of us to meet the things we do not like or do not expect."

Heretics, GK Chesterton