I didn't want to wait so long before another post, but I've been catching up on my United Light and tinkering with what I want to happen. I did not find a place for the song I told you all that I loved, it might have to wait for either next chapter or the one after it. Meaning that there is an update today !
I have a short playlist
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1 & 2 - Collide (Acoustic) - Howie Day
3&4 - Never Think - Robert Pattinson
5 ,6 ,7,8- Honestly - Cary Brothers
9 & 10 - No Reason - Hoobastank
I really have to find some more female artist.
Chapter 7 : Good Wife
Hi, looks like I am first today ! I have to say I was taken a back when you used the word Kennedy, I mean I know it is in a totally different context but, I lol'd.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad I distracted you.
This chapter was really sad.
OT, Your title reminds me of that new show on CBS !
ReplyDeleteI am kind of torn with Sofia at this point because I understand wanting to be a "good wife" but is Tomas a "good husband" ? I want to say that term is dated but maybe it isn't. I am starting to enjoy Sofia's voice more than Tomas's now.
I am dying for the style that you use. The short kind of vignettes ( I mean I know that isn't the best word) I feel like I got so much in so little.
ReplyDeleteWow, I feel like we learned a lot about Tomas in this chapter. So, was his families one of those where they were Jewish but decided to pretend to be Catholic to help them when they escaped ? I just find it odd he never realized his grandmother had to be Jewish. Then again sometimes the SS got non-Jewish people by mistake.
ReplyDeleteIt seems kind of wrong of Tomas to not tell his family. I mean won't they be hurt if they find out he is dead and had no idea it was coming. I just feel like AIDS doesn't have the same kind of stigma but, maybe that is an American idea.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw Tomas and Adam in the same room my brain imploded ! ! ! It was very anti-climactic though
ReplyDeleteI loved the Adam/Tomas scene. It was like you could have totally spoon fed it to us but, you didn't.
ReplyDeleteThis was another very emotional chapter. The suicide scene really touched me because I just find suicide so . . . powerful, suicide is such a terrible thing. I'm glad Tomas got help though, that shows growth
ReplyDeleteI liked this chapter and we thought last time was a cliff hanger !
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 2 were we supposed to be led to believe Sofia's mother is alive ? Because in Spirits (or Lost Angels, I think) you mention her mother is dead.
I saw it from the beginning but, more so with this chapter; Sofia and Tomas were to broken souls who tried to put themselves together with each other.
ReplyDeleteI am very much on edge for what happens next. Does the conversation Adam was having have anything to do with anything ?
So, Tomas is all about them not seeing "nearly enough of each other naked" but he gets mad at her when she wants to sleep with him ? Is that his disease talking ?
ReplyDeleteI think this does a really great portrayal of AIDS, I feel a tragic end coming. And I have to say the last song gives me a forboding sense of fear.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever say what the tattoo on Tomas's neck is ? It's kind of emo that he wears all black or is that a literary thing.
ReplyDeleteReason # 235 To Love Tomas : He will take down a smoke detector just to smoke indoors.
ReplyDeleteHe needs to come to my apartment !
I loved that ring, it is so pretty ! Did Tomas know her mom had a ring like that ? Does that mean anything ? Does her dropping perfume mean anything ?
ReplyDeleteI wish we didn't make people feel so ashamed of having AIDS, I honestly would not care.
I don't understand how he went from a list of things he would never do to killing himself. Was he trying to do all the things on the list ?
ReplyDeleteThey could fix a lot of their problems if they hung out *together*.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for an update, even though I think he overdosed.
That last scene all I can say is tears, I am anxious for an update
ReplyDeleteI love all these songs so much. I notice you really like Collide, is there any other version (just curious)
ReplyDelete"I’ve always said this disease is like Night and Day one day it’s dark and the next it’s light, one shows no sign of the other."
ReplyDeleteI love this line, is their a reason Night and Day are capitalized ? It seems very intentional
That is a very nice ring . . .
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't keep us waiting to long, Miss Leigh some of us have procrastinating to do.
Why didn't he call 911 ? It's so sad that a person can waste away.
ReplyDeleteI read it with the song, I am going to be thinking about this for a good 3 hours before I snap out of fictionland !
ReplyDelete@ Shawna - You didn't distract me, I also orignially had Tomas order one of the drinks mentioned in UL but changed it !
@ Heidi - yeah, I hope it gets canceled so it's not associated, JK.
@ Rebeca - I don't know if it's a good or bad thing.
@ Topaz - He's always known, in Perspective where the word Perspective appears he is at one of the mass grave sites where his Great-Grandparents were killed it's called Ponary or Ponary Massacre
@ Wilson - I don't think him not telling them is right, so I agree.
@ Bella - intentional
@ June - I don't know what that means
@ Lili_Florist - Intersting . . .
@ Toni - Her mother is dead, Sofia visits her grave site in Chapter 2 The date is wrong her mother died in 2001 (I'll change it). I will say in Spirits she lied to Tomas about how her mother died.
@ Violeta - A little
@ Sam_L - He gets mad at her now because of what he has been going through since visiting his family. I'm glad you caught that.
@ AprilF - Hi, The last song was in close competition with Closer from J. Radin so does that help ?
@ Cherry - I guess he is a little emo, but he is mostly grieving over himself.
@ Paige - He also does it in Spirits at Judson's and the old apartment which is why it didn't go off when the building was set on fire.
@ Tabitha - He didn't know about the ring, he just new she was Irish. The perfume bottle doesn't mean anything.
@ SpiritedAngel - The list of things he couldn't do is not like a bucket list, it's things that you can't do no matter what like turning thirty. The list was like a suicide note.
@ QueenB - You are so right
@ Nygirl - Me too
@ Ashlyn - I like the acoustic better but I wanted to use Collide for this part but it fit so much better with the other one, so I used bother versions. Even if Howie Day is a little crazy.
ReplyDelete@ Jason - Totally subconscious
@ Joseph - No heart ? And I have a ring just like that. My SO bought it 6 years ago when he got a new credit card. ♥
@ Blondie - I felt the same way about chapter 11 and 12 of United Light I was captivated.