Day three of awesome head and chest cold. I did go to work, to avoid boredom, so I'm not SUPER SICK, but I am going to bed as soon as I post this, though I'm shocked to see it's after ten. The evening just flies by when you get home at 7:30.

More on the Dodie Smith front. I read an essay called "Literary Executions" by Julian Barnes which was supposed to be about wresting control of film rights for I Capture the Castle back from Disney (which bought them up after the success of 101 Dalmations), but the essay proved to be nothing of the sort. It was a good essay, yes, and an entertaining one, and did discuss things like how Dodie Smith had heard once that the Japanese eat dogs, and refused to have her work published there, and how Barnes had to decide if Smith's misinformation meant that he should respect her wishes verbatim or go with the spirit of the wish and make her heirs another sum of money. It was an interesting essay for other reasons, too, like how being a literary executor (and a conscientious one at that) is a way to pay back a writing mentor.

Have not done Greek in weeks, and no gym in days. ( Fitness report. )

I'm home sick with a sore throat and cough, like I probably should have been yesterday... thing is, I didn't feel all that terrible yesterday, though I was low-energy and a little touchier than normal (I guess), and I had a fever when I came home, and I went to bed as soon as I finished dinner, and I slept the clock around (except for a brief half hour when Dann came to bed, where I was twitchy and couldn't lay still and probably came close to death a couple of times).

In any case, I've been meaning to do a book report for the better part of a week now.

( Dirty by Megan Hart )

( Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer )

19) It Ends with Revelations by Dodie Smith
There is almost nothing out there about Dodie Smith's works except for 101 Dalmations and I Capture the Castle, so when faced with the challenge of finding and reading more of her novels, I had no idea where to start. NONE. I basically chose this book because my library owned it, even though some of the other titles intrigued me a little more.

This book has a few of those excellent moments of random, character-driven aphorism like I Capture the Castle, but overall, the book is more subdued, more adult. Possibly more mature, but not necessarily in a way that I was fully able to appreciate until near the end.

( It Ends with Revelations by Dodie Smith (spoilers) )