The "F" words...

Fragmented - Frustrating - Finished - Fiction - & - Felons...

Have you ever read a book, with interest, and then you come to the last page...read it, and then just feel like throwing it through a window!?!!! I just did. And how I wanted to take the book, and break a window or two tossing it hard and heavy through the glass panes. It was a long, thick book...all of 972 pages [large paper back edtion], it took me nearly 2 months to read the entire work. I might add heavy to hold while I was reading it in bed some nights. LOL Anyway, here is a short blurb from the book's foreword page:

"Published in 1944 it created a sensation...the novel sold 100,000 copies in its first week...considered bawdy and immoral, the book was banned in Boston...too impure for the movies in its present state..."

Of course in history, the English courts themselves were quite 'bawdy' and immoral if you ask me. So...why was this highly researched work of fiction so sinful? That remains a question in my opinion. Heck, if you ask me, it's no worse than what history tells us. And then, while reading the book, I kept thinking that this is just no different than what goes on ...but that is today, and entertainment is much more loose with actions, words, thoughts. It BLOGGLES my mind that it was banned in the first place. Oh well....needless to say, the story did keep me turning the pages; characters like Amber and her tainted life, Lord Carlton, her lover and father of her children, King Charles II and his court, more men in Amber's life that I could list here...it was like Guiding Light, or As the World Turns, or well...you get the idea; a soap opera. But what made me want to throw the book through a window was the ending. The last chapter. Let me put it this way...a dirty, dirty way to treat Amber [even tho she was quite evil and sinister]...but still!!!! I would recommend this book if you like romance and a little of historical intrigue. Just be forewarned. The ending!!! Ohhhhhhhhh.

FOREVER AMBER
by
Kathleen Winsor

The beaches near us are now OURS again. No more revelers 'til next year at this time. Yay. I really had withdrawal symptoms from no beach combing. LOL Nearly first light on Monday morning we drove over to the islands. Went to Newport beach access road on Mustang Island and lo and behold we were nearly the only ones there...civilian traffic that is. Well, let me put it this way, there were others...a city worker with his heavy caterpillar grater grating the refuse and doing some cleaning...while the others cleaning the beaches ----ummmm, they were inmates. Not chain gain [or we probably would have left, lol] but a few wagon loads of young guys in their striped jailhouse garb!!! Cleaning and walking along, picking up the garbage and crap the Spring Break revelers left behind. Oh there was one other besides Bud and me walking the shores...but he paid no mind to anyone - he was wearing his ear piece/headphone and walking along with his metal detector.

Thursday afternoon I began guttin' out Spring Cleaning the last room in our house....the dreaded kitchen!!! But...with that done, the house is ready for anything. In fact, when the kitchen is done, I'll have to go back and dust all the rooms again. LOLOLOL

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