Monday, August 02, 2021
I finished reading The Dutch House by Ann Patchett and I quite enjoyed it. It tells the story of a brother and sister who were very close who lived in a grand Dutch house. In my mind, this house was awesome. Their mother found the house to be excessive and left them when they were young. As much as it's unfathomable that a mother would leave two very young kids, when I imagine if I could ever live in such a big majestic house, I myself find it rather strange and concede it may not be a good fit for me though I do want a big garden. Monet's house and garden in Giverny would be the dream. Anyways, their father remarried and when their father died, their stepmother threw them out of the house. They went from being rather rich, living in a big house, to being a commoner. The book tells the story of their lives before and after losing the house and all through it all they leaned on each other, ride or die. It makes me sad that I have noone that I can call my ride or die, but then a little thought came that maybe I don't have one because God don't think I need one, that my life is not that hard? Still, it would be good to have one, no? The book ends in a reconciliatory way, like forgiveness or the passage of time would really take away bitterness. It takes a long time though and at the same time sometime maybe it doesn't because in the chapters before last, a sad thing happened and it also made me think, no, a long time can pass but sometime some things cannot be okay and it is better, or at least for the aggrieved person, to not have to be forced to be okay with everything. It's okay I guess if we cannot let go of everything. People who are not in our shoes do not know the turnmoil and sorrow that we have to endure, so who are they to ask? I know it's always good to forgive and forget, but I tend to be unable to do those.
Moving on to things I watched. I watched the French tv series, Lupin and I found it rather good. It's inspired by the french stories of Arsène Lupin, a gentleman thief. I wanted to read the stories after watching Lupin, but as evidenced by my poor french when watching it, in which I needed subtitle, I don't think I can read the stories in french. Lupin starred Omar Sy who I already knew from watching Intouchables, which was extremely good. The American re-make, The Upside with Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston wasn't that good even though I like both actors. After Lupin I thought I should watch another foreign thing and settled with the Italian, Summertime. My Italian is also bad so I couldn't make it without subtitle either. I think I'm too old for Summertime which tells the stories of barely adults and their love lives. There are many moments when I rolled my eyes, but I made it all through season 1. As much as 1 or 2 characters are kinda lovable, it's just the stories really make me unable to sit through season 2, so I didn't continue. Summertime has a lot of good Italian songs in it though and I think that is the strong point for me. Now, I am watching Luther. I'm not one who's into Idris Elba hype or even understood it, but after watching Luther, I get it now. I'm only in season 2 now, but with so many violent crimes, I wonder if it's the reason for my crime nightmare last night.
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