Here’s another shot of the Super Full Moon. Wish I could have captured how it looks to the human eye, but my camera or camera skills just weren’t up to it.
As predicted, I did watch Moonstruck yesterday, and it was as entertaining as always. However, I’d said I thought the movie was quoted by members of the Revere family in my novel A Coventry Christmas. As the DVD played, I grabbed the novel from the library and started flipping through it to look for the quotes when my brain suddenly went, “D’oh! The Revere family isn’t in this book, they’re in A Coventry Wedding, and you are a moron who can’t remember your own novels.” I mean, it’s been a decade and a half since I wrote them, and they’re all set in my fictitious small town of Coventry, Texas, but still… I corrected yesterday’s post.
That little bit of page flipping lured me in, and after the movie was over, I began rereading A Coventry Christmas. It turns out that even though the Neverending Saga is not the same style or narrative (it’s not chick lit or contemporary romance or lighthearted), my characters were storytellers back then (as are my current characters) and there were a lot of them (that’s still true, too…bound to happen when you’re writing a series spanning decades).
The novel made me laugh, it gave me tears, and I read it all the way through. Afterward, I talked about it with Tim, Jim, and Tom and wondered if my satisfaction with it was vanity. The consensus was, NOPE. To paraphrase Tim, isn’t it the goal for a writer to be happy with what s/he creates? Of course, now I’m going to end up rereading A Coventry Wedding, which I remember as having a beginning that challenged some reviewers. Can’t please everyone…
I’m glad I watched my co-favorite RomCom movie and enjoyed reading A Coventry Christmas, because the movie I watched in recognition of DNC week was an emotional and mental about-face. It did have some comedy and even had some romance (I think this is the first time I’ve seen a movie with Timothée Chalamet, and his character was one of the movie’s redeeming features for me–really, it’s full of good actors), but mostly 2021’s Don’t Look Up just made me sad.
I can see the moon like that in my mind’s eye. The moon is tricky to photograph to reflect the way we sense it, even the one on display just above the night cliff in DC’s Native American Museum, and that’s just museum lighting that gets in the way!
Good job!
Thank you. For a while there, with one of my other cameras, I was getting some better moon shots. But even with a more powerful lens, my current camera has limitations. I bought it to photograph dogs and cats at close range, and for that, it was the right choice.
And all that ambient light does not help.
I will have to re-read A Coventry Christmas, what with the season coming up. Your novels – and the TJB novels – are in my bookcase adjacent to my armchair.
It’s years since I have seen Moonstruck. I will have to re-watch it.
I remember wishing I had a camera that could have done the super moon justice at the time. It was so low and large and beautiful. Instead, I simply appreciated it.
It goes back to some of the other posts we’ve spoken on. Sometimes it’s better to just enjoy and be in the moment instead of curse at my or my camera’s inadequacies!