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Around the World: Flatiron Building
Nov. 7th, 2009 09:39 amYou can't go up the Empire State Building and don't take a picture of the Flatiron Building. I think that, from above is how you can really appreciated this building, you haven't to choose a particular side, its strange form is enough to be the basis of a nice picture. Maybe the only "special" effect here is the light: I chose to go up the Empire at almost closing hour, when the sunset was starting and so I obtained that golden light you see.
by Elisa, Flatiron Building, New York City, 2000
http://www.elisarolle.com/travel/2000NewYork.htm
This picture was taken in 2000, my first time in NYC. This last September I did less tourist things, and so I didn't stay in line to go up again the Empire, but I did take another picture of the Flatiron, this time from below:
by Elisa, Flatiron Building, New York City, 2009
( Flatiron Building )
by Elisa, Flatiron Building, New York City, 2000
http://www.elisarolle.com/travel/2000NewYork.htm
This picture was taken in 2000, my first time in NYC. This last September I did less tourist things, and so I didn't stay in line to go up again the Empire, but I did take another picture of the Flatiron, this time from below:
by Elisa, Flatiron Building, New York City, 2009
( Flatiron Building )
Broken is, as expected, a story very heavy in the angst side but not overtly dramatic. I poured my one tear or two, but basically, I think the story was more sweet than anything else, and I really enjoyed the fact that it was "physical" without being sexy. Let me explain a bit: both main characters, Eli and Alec, are very aware of each other in a physical way, the love between them is both a match of minds than bodies, and all around them there are people who are in different stage of relationships, but the novel never goes down to the details, never once there is a full sex scene, even if, more than once, the men fall asleep together (and you will have to read the book to know what I mean). So yes, the novel is physical, but it's not sexy, we and they are aware of the men and their sexuality, and so no, this is not a "sweet romance" as the old romance rules state (no sex we are English...), but it's sweet since the author manages to maintain it on a balanced level, not too much of that, not to few of this. 
Broken is, as expected, a story very heavy in the angst side but not overtly dramatic. I poured my one tear or two, but basically, I think the story was more sweet than anything else, and I really enjoyed the fact that it was "physical" without being sexy. Let me explain a bit: both main characters, Eli and Alec, are very aware of each other in a physical way, the love between them is both a match of minds than bodies, and all around them there are people who are in different stage of relationships, but the novel never goes down to the details, never once there is a full sex scene, even if, more than once, the men fall asleep together (and you will have to read the book to know what I mean). So yes, the novel is physical, but it's not sexy, we and they are aware of the men and their sexuality, and so no, this is not a "sweet romance" as the old romance rules state (no sex we are English...), but it's sweet since the author manages to maintain it on a balanced level, not too much of that, not to few of this. 
It's really difficult to disconnect the author, Jim Arnold, from his character, Ben Schmidt. They have so many traits in common and Ben comes out so strong from the page of Arnold's novel, that it was really like reading a personal journal more than a fictional novel. 
It's really difficult to disconnect the author, Jim Arnold, from his character, Ben Schmidt. They have so many traits in common and Ben comes out so strong from the page of Arnold's novel, that it was really like reading a personal journal more than a fictional novel. 
