4/100 Things - Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind is one of my favorite books and movies. I originally read GotW when I was a teen, maybe 14 or so. I actually had a copy that was printed with two columns on each page and was very thick. And I read like it was food and water. For the week or two it took me to read this book, I was consumed by Scarlett O'Hara and her trials and tribulations. It was romance novel ahead of its time... it won a Pulitzer in 1936. Of course it was romanticized but I found it a very anti-war novel. The young and old men of the south found that there is very little romance in being hungry and dirty and often wounded with no way to come home and not much to come home to. It is also different in that it has no happy ending. I rec that you read it but read it with the idea that it was written in the early 1930s and reflects the world as it was then.

The movie -- oh my -- I saw it a few years later in a theater too. I believe a good movie deserves watching on a wide screen and this one was quite a spectacle to behold. It was done in 1939 when my mama was 4 years old and it's still beautiful to see. And Vivien Leigh, who was quite breathtaking as Scarlett. CGI didn't exist but the burning of Atlanta is still quite the scene. The story is shortened a bit but the essence is there and is still the same - the horror of war for the soldiers and the ones left behind, the coming of age of a woman who'd never done anything in her life but be pretty. The film itself is history even if the history is totally accurate.

Day Twenty-two

It's pretty late and I've not done a lot today... I paid bills and worked on my grocery list. Larry and I talked about vacation but have not decided on where to go but it's looking a little like the beach and/or Charleston, SC. I need to look up some stuff to do in Charleston. Anyone know any stuff there?

Well, it's late and I'm heading to bed. Nighty1