Gracious.

[truepenny]

There are over 500 of you.

::waves to everybody::

Since I have to write a synopsis of The Mirador today, and since synopsis-writing is an activity which I both hate and am incredibly bad at, I'm going to issue an open invitation:

Tell me something about yourself.

It's an invitation, obviously--nothing even as strong as a request--so if you don't want to, no harm, no foul. But if you'd like to (and this applies as much to the people I know as the people I don't) ... tell me something. Make it as long or as short, as serious or as goofy as you want. If you are a reader who doesn't have a LiveJournal account, that's totally cool, too--just please remember to sign your comment.

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

An adaptation of one of her books - 'The Charioteer', which (for those who don't know) is not as Greek as it sounds: it's her one truly successful (IMO) contemporary novel - into a radio play. Technically. Actually we were talking about all sorts of stuff, the way you do. And it's become an Anecdote, because her last letter apologised profusely for the long delay, only she'd been in bed sick, and she wished that pneumonia was kill-or-cure like it had been in her nursing days rather than dragging on and on for ever, but at least she was feeling better and back at her desk at last - and a couple of hours after the letter arrived, my dad phoned to say that she'd just died.

[sovay]

it's her one truly successful (IMO) contemporary novel

It's certainly the only one that's ever reprinted regularly. My copies of Return to Night and The Friendly Young Ladies are all battered and archaic, and I've never been able to find some of the others outside of libraries.

I'm still surprised that The Charioteer hasn't been made into a film.

and a couple of hours after the letter arrived, my dad phoned to say that she'd just died.

Wow. As anecdotes go . . .

[st-egfroth.livejournal.com]

I'm still surprised that The Charioteer hasn't been made into a film.

Yes, me too. It would make a wonderful film if it were done with sufficient care. (Although a bad film version of The Charioteer might make me lose the will to live...)

[sovay]

(Although a bad film version of The Charioteer might make me lose the will to live...)

Yes. Do not remind me of Oliver Stone's Alexander. (I watched it with friends as a double feature with Kingdom of Heaven. We must have been suicidal.) I kept feeling that one of the scriptwriters must have read just enough of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy to bastardize them both. It hurt. So much.

[st-egfroth.livejournal.com]

I avoided it for precisely that sort of reason! (I enjoyed the biography by Robin Lane Fox that it was supposedly based on, but I haven't yet read Mary Renault's Alexander biography to compare).

[sovay]

but I haven't yet read Mary Renault's Alexander biography to compare

Honestly, I like the novels better than the biography . . .

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Me too - and the Stone film? That was my birthday treat. Sob. And a press show (10.30am), so when they did the intermission thing there wasn't even any ice cream. Tho' when the cinema manager came in to ask how it was going, we did disgrace ourselves by telling him. In detail.

[sovay]

and the Stone film? That was my birthday treat.

Condolences!