I’ve been thinking I ought to read Ordinary People again. I re-read it when I was well past my teens, but that would still have been over 10 years ago, I think. I found flaws in the writing the second time through that I might not have seen the first time, since I wasn’t yet an editor, but still thought it was an excellent book. And it still rang very true. Oddly, I hated the movie when it first came out, because it wasn’t true enough to the book and I thought Mary Tyler Moore was completely miscast. But when I saw it again in my thirties, I was surprised by how good it was. Still not as good as the book, but very well done—and Mary Tyler Moore’s performance was pretty stellar, actually. (Besides, it had Timothy Hutton in it, and he is so my type…)

I maybe ought to read Ordinary People. I’ve never read it.