Still Life With Woodpecker

Have you read the Quote of the Day?

I'll repeat it:

"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

Ugh. That just punches me in the gut, it speaks so much truth.

If you want your life to be changed, or if you want to read an unconventional love story, or if you have red hair, or if you like Camel cigarettes, then you need to go to your nearest public library and check out Tom Robbins' Still Life With Woodpecker.

It's one of those books I could read over and over again for the bits of truth Robbins weaves into the far-fetched story of a redheaded environmental ex-cheerleader princess who lives in Seattle and goes to Hawaii to hear Ralph Nader speak (because she has a thing for Ralph) but ends up meeting an outlaw with a pension for bombs and falling in love with him.

Maybe I love it because the main character is a redhead. And an ex-cheerleader. And an environmentalist. Like me.

If I had the skills and connections and finances I would put my time and energy into making this book into a film. If the right person got their hands on it, I think it could translate beautifully into film.

I like to cast the movie in my head while I read it:

Princess Leigh-Cheri:
moi, of course!

Bernard Mickey Wrangle, the outlaw:
I suppose I could act opposite James McAvoy... Of course he would have to dye his hair auburn for the role. And the role requires a few love scenes... I'm sure he can handle it.