Joseph Lunievicz shares his summer activities!
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Please welcome Joseph Lunievicz, author of Open Wounds, to the blog! His book is fantastic, full of strength and dreams. Cid Wymann is one of those underdog kids that you want to get behind. Trust me, it’s fabulous!
Well today Joseph is here to share his summer traditions, along with Cid’s. I thought that was so awesome! Make sure to stop back tomorrow for a giveaway hosted by the two of them as well!
For the summer reading challenge I thought I’d give you both my
favorite summer activity and tradition and Cid Wymann’s, the protagonist of my
novel Open Wounds, when he was eight.
favorite summer activity and tradition and Cid Wymann’s, the protagonist of my
novel Open Wounds, when he was eight.
Favorite Summer Activities:
I love to see summer movies. All winter I wait for the spring releases
anticipating which films I’d like to see and which I’ll skip. These days, my
son and I do it together. He’s nine and the movies we pick are more his speed
than mine but I’m a big fan of animation and fantasy movies so this summer
we’ve had fun with Rio, The Smurfs, and Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hollows Part 2 (though we saw each of the earlier movies one
after the other each night before opening day in anticipation of the final
installment). On my own I saw, while traveling, True Grit
and 13 Assassins. Some films a 9-year old
just shouldn’t see.
anticipating which films I’d like to see and which I’ll skip. These days, my
son and I do it together. He’s nine and the movies we pick are more his speed
than mine but I’m a big fan of animation and fantasy movies so this summer
we’ve had fun with Rio, The Smurfs, and Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hollows Part 2 (though we saw each of the earlier movies one
after the other each night before opening day in anticipation of the final
installment). On my own I saw, while traveling, True Grit
and 13 Assassins. Some films a 9-year old
just shouldn’t see.
Cid Wyman’s favorite summer movies from 1937 would have been The Prince and The Pauper with Errol Flynn, Fire Over England, King Solomon’s Mines,
and his most favorite, The Prisoner of Zenda
with Ronald Coleman. He saw these because his grandmother, Mad Maddie Wymann
chose them and she was a sucker for a swashbuckler and an action film. Cid was
eight years old, had found two best friends and had the greatest summer of his
life. For a bright shining three months in Sunnyside, Queens, even with the
tail end of the depression closing in on all three of them, Cid was happy.
and his most favorite, The Prisoner of Zenda
with Ronald Coleman. He saw these because his grandmother, Mad Maddie Wymann
chose them and she was a sucker for a swashbuckler and an action film. Cid was
eight years old, had found two best friends and had the greatest summer of his
life. For a bright shining three months in Sunnyside, Queens, even with the
tail end of the depression closing in on all three of them, Cid was happy.
Favorite Summer Traditions:
One of my favorite summer traditions is the change over to wearing
sandals and leaving my shoes and sneakers behind until the temperature drops
down below 70 again in the fall. I always start a week too early and freeze my
toes off but I can’t resist the warming temperatures of late May and early June.
I also keep them on a week or so past when I really need my socks on. But
shorts and sandals… ahhh.
sandals and leaving my shoes and sneakers behind until the temperature drops
down below 70 again in the fall. I always start a week too early and freeze my
toes off but I can’t resist the warming temperatures of late May and early June.
I also keep them on a week or so past when I really need my socks on. But
shorts and sandals… ahhh.
One of Cid’s favorite summer traditions (and it was cut from the book
but I’ll tell all now) when he was 8 had to do with a scam they played with
baseball cards. Cid and his friends Tomik and Siggy would flip cards with the
other kids on the block. Tomik would chew gum and throw it on the sidewalk and
Siggy would step on it without the other’s noticing. Then Tomik would pretend
to get in a fight with Cid. They’d push each other around and over the cards.
In the scuffle Siggy would step on the cards they wanted and walk off with the
card or cards stuck to the gum on the sole of his shoe. Cid and Tomik would
quickly make up and leave with their cards and the other boys would be none the
wiser.
but I’ll tell all now) when he was 8 had to do with a scam they played with
baseball cards. Cid and his friends Tomik and Siggy would flip cards with the
other kids on the block. Tomik would chew gum and throw it on the sidewalk and
Siggy would step on it without the other’s noticing. Then Tomik would pretend
to get in a fight with Cid. They’d push each other around and over the cards.
In the scuffle Siggy would step on the cards they wanted and walk off with the
card or cards stuck to the gum on the sole of his shoe. Cid and Tomik would
quickly make up and leave with their cards and the other boys would be none the
wiser.
