Lost Girls

I just realized an interesting motif just a moment ago in the literature I'm reading at the moment. Thematically, all deal with 'lost girls.'

i just finished LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER, PUSH: A NOVEL (which the movie PRECIOUS is based on), I'm about to start reading LOOSE GIRL: A MEMOIR OF PROMISCUITY, and after that ALICE IN WONDERLAND, UNHOOKED: HOW YOUNG WOMEN PURSUE SEX, DELAY LOVE AND LOSE AT BOTH, and Sarah Ruhl's play called THE CLEAN HOUSE.

My subconscious is totally 3 steps ahead of me. I'm feel like I'm getting closer and closer to writing my next play. . .It's been cooking for months now. Just waiting to cross over the pond!

A digestion of Lady Chatterly and Push are coming very soon. This is because I've decided not to just read anymore. If I want to zone out, I'll watch TV. Every piece I read, or engage in, I want to reflect on, build on, learn from, immerse in, and soak up.

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Books to read before Jan 7:
- Loose Girl
- Unhooked
- Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Plays by Sarah Ruhl: The Clean House, Eurydice, Late: A Cowboy Song
- Big Death and Little Death by Mickey Birnbaum
- Fever/Dream by Sheila Callaghan
- The Alchemist
- Plays from The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: An Anthology
- A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
- Thinking Shakespeare by Barry Edelstein
- Backwards and Forwards by David Ball
- Kahlil Gibran
- Rumi


Movies to See before Jan 7:
- The Holiday (seasonal, sentimental fav. i love having kate winslet in my life)
- Something's Gotta Give (to enjoy, and get ready for...)
- It's Complicated (Nancy Meyer's newest! plus it has Meryl Streep)
- Invictus (Morgan Freeman as Mandela, please. happening)
- Nine (um. Judi Dench and Sofia Loren is all. Sofia fucking Loren, in all her ridiculous glory!)
- The Crown in the Jewel miniseries (British colonialism in India + Old school A&E = bliss)
- Upstairs Downstairs miniseries (old school a&e again. weakness. im watching this on vhs, i love it)
- Harry Potter 5 and 6 (because I get sucked into fantasy alright)
- LOTR Trilogy (again, but this time on blueray)
- Bad Education (need to see it again. I don't think I understood it the first- and only- time i saw it years ago)
- Talk to Her (Almodovar love-a-thon)
- Vovler (Almodovar festival, in order to get ready for....)
- Broken Embraces!! (Almodovar's newest!)
- The Seventh Seal (my first Ingmar Bergman experience)
- The Jane Austen Book Club (Seasonal fav)


Theatre-to-See before Jan 7:
- The Solid Gold Cadillac at Studio Theatre
- Teddy Roosvelt and the Ghostly Miseltoe (to see Michael R and Lindsey and Gregg! :D)
- A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre (to see ED!!!!! :D)
- August: Osage County (again, with my sister, if possible.)