NEW WORD!

Remember that time I told you about the most amazing book I've ever read?  Well, I got it's sequel from the library a few days ago!  "The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street."  After waiting about 3 weeks for it to come in from my hold request, I had to finish the book I was already reading (One Day by David Nicholls, WONDERFUL, and it had an interesting, irregular structure, which is a characteristic I LOVE in books), but I finally started it.  In "84 Charing Cross Road", one of the two letter writers dreams of going to London, but each time she plans a trip, a random obstacle jumps in her way.  Before she can make it, her pen pal passes away suddenly.  The sequel is her first hand account of her finally making it to London.  I'm 20 pages in, and it's also amazing.  I don't generally like non-fic, but this reads so, well, perfectly, that it's ok.  It's like I'm simply sitting in my lazy-boy, hearing Helene Hanff narrate this story to me in person. 

BUT!  The new word, comes from brunch today.  I had an excellent brunch at place called Over Easy with my director, and I was telling her about my new book.  After hearing my description of "84 Charing Cross Road", she exclaimed "YOU CAN USE ONE OF MY FAVORITE WORDS FOR THAT BOOK!"  Obviously, I got very excited.  "84 Charing Cross Road" is an Epistolary Novel.  An epistolary is a book made up entirely of documents, generally letters, as is the case here.  But apparently diary entries or newspaper clippings count also.  My director said "I can credit my English Major with that one."

So, there you go. 

And here are some pictures I took today at rehearsal.  You can see the skyline out the window.  It's pretty cool.  Of course, the one day I remember my camera, it's overcast and ugly out.  There's also some cool stuff in the building that I took pictures of.