Claire Conger

Juno is a thoroughly delightful coming-of-age story about a smart and quirky teen, Juno played by Ellen Page, who seduces her geeky boyfriend and gets pregnant in that quintessentially innocent first fumbling experiment with sex. She does it with the right person, her best friend. Her offbeat family—especially the younger sister—is reminiscent of the characters in Little Miss Sunshine.

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I didn’t go snowboarding this week because I didn’t like the weather report, which turned out to be too inaccurate for trip-planning purposes. Grr!

So instead, I went to yoga class. Riding my bike home, who should I encounter riding his bike to work? None other than Pseudo Boyfriend #2, the one whose calls this January I did not return.

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I was thoroughly entertained listening to Kathe Mazur’s reading of The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.

The Nanny Diaries does what a good book ought, transport the reader—listener—to a different world. In this case, it’s upper-class Manhattan where the rich are clueless.

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Last night I watched The Hours, a movie based on Michael Cunningham’s 2000 novel of the same name.

The Hours is a haunting psychodrama around the suicide of Virginia Woolf (played by Nicole Kidman) with the death theme running throughout.

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White Oleander is my current favorite DVD. It’s both visually and emotionally stunning.

It rings true to the novel on which it was based, a coming-of-age story (White Oleander) by Janet Fitch that is an Oprah’s Book Club selection.

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