I have been under the weather for the past two days. I have the usual symptoms of a nasty flu: coughing, sneezing, runny nose, scratchy throat and general grumpiness. The husband has been wonderful in taking care of me and my bad mood, supplying me medicine, food and healing liquids.
I didn’t do much the past two days besides moving from bed to sofa, but I managed to finish a great book that I recommend highly. That book is High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. I saw the movie years ago but the book is something else: witty, funny, entertaining, musical and very well-written. It helped perk me up for sure. If I ever decide to write a novel of some sort then the writing style that I would like to adopt would be something like Hornby’s. It is very close to the heart.
I have already started another book, again upon Amal’s recommendation, prompting me to give her the official title of "Book Adviser." The novel is called Traveling with Djinns by Jamal Mahjoub. So far I’ve read only the first chapter so there’s nothing much to report.
In the interim I also managed to watch the movie Grease for the very first time — yeah, you heard me right. I thought it was very cheesy but fun. It worked perfectly as entertainment for someone with a strong flu. I have been away from the blogosphere for two days now and have lots of reading to do. Hopefully by the end of the day I will be able to catch up with the wonderful bloggers out there. Ta ta for now.
And oh yeah, cheesy as it may be, Grease is one of the best movies ever, it makes me happy for some reason..
Salamat Natasha, I guess its the flu season, because a good amount of people I know are also quite sick…
Drink a lot of Vitamin C.
loved high fidelity and natasha you are right the book is much better, but generally books often are…
hope u get well soon cos i’m worried i’m going to catch your bug… sitting next to u is already making me feel a bit feverish… but that’s nothing new… mmmmwwwaaahh
Metal, salamtak and freeka ilak
I’ve ALREADY been praying you would get married to a great lady and have some kids, as i believe it would unlock a much softened tender and gentle side of you! Make up for all that cynical music you listen too 🙂
Metalordie,
Salamtak. It was not me;-)
Nas,
I have read About a Boy and seen the movie. Great stuff.
Sometimes a little bug can be a good thing. It forces you to rest and not take your health for granted. Glad to hear you are on the mend.
DONT GET ME STARTED METAL!
Well, I’m sneezing like a wet nurse on a rash and its not funny.
Tasha, you’re to blame for all this and unlike you, there’s no Hubby, Tubby, or Subby to feed me fluids.
Hmmm… maybe its time to get a slave…er, I mean wife.
hahahaha. i love grease. this is one of my all time favs. can never get bored of it and of course, am always singing the songs around the house every time i see it.
i hope u get better.
salamtek natasha, hope u get better as soon as possible, u left a big vacuum in the blogosphere.
i read and saw High Fidelity, one of my favorite movies. Hornby is a genuis writer, very witty without that sense of dry british humor, u know what i mean? You should read About a Boy, the movie actually makes Hughe Grant’s acting half decent.