Optimistic, emotional, sad and beautiful.

The American Place Theatre has a Literature to Life series where they bring books verbatim (but condensed) to the Stage. Today, I saw a performance of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Forer bought to life in the form of a one-actor production.

It's plot centers around the September 11th attack, and the emotional and physical journey of a child who's lost his father. For some reason it reminded me of The Catcher in the Rye -though the only parallel seems to be a young person wandering through New York City. It's an emotional read, but I definitely recommend reading this novel.

I also went on a scavenger hunt through Central Park (got to visit the John Lennon Imagine Memorial), toured the Museum of Natural History and tried YOGA for the first time!