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14 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Review: The New York R... · 1 reply · +1 points

I watched part of her stand-up routine and really liked it. She seems like someone with a great sense of fun.

14 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - I met Margaret Atwood! · 0 replies · +1 points

Yay! Jealous! My favorite Atwoods so far are Cat's Eye and Alias Grace...two you still luckily have to look forward to!

14 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - A Classics Challenge -... · 3 replies · +1 points

I haven't read this one yet, but liked the House of Mirth and LOVED Ethan Frome. I hope to read this one this year, too. I enjoy her writing as well :)

14 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Review: Reading Women ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes, I think that's fair :) Thanks Ingrid!

14 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Review: Reading Women ... · 2 replies · +1 points

I really liked this book a lot too, and appreciated it as a memoir. I do think it would have been a lot better--fuller, more interesting--if she'd included her reactions to a more diverse set of texts (she does mention that she read a number of relevant women of color authors in her class, for example--so why not include some of them?). More self-awareness of social privilege would strengthen EVEN a memoir, I think. But she does write quite wonderfully about the tensions that can build up around feminism, work, and family as she experienced them. She wrote so honestly about it that I feel very positively, if not perfectly, about the book despite the criticisms, which I do think are (mostly) fair.

14 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Post: Whatcha Readin\'? · 0 replies · +1 points

I just started Persuasion, by Jane Austen. I was craving a comfort read, and so far it's just what I want and expect it to be.

I don't mind it when strangers make (positive) comments about what I'm reading, like "Ohhh I read that book last week, isn't it great?!" but it often bothers me when strangers ask me what I'm reading as a way to begin a conversation, because hello, I'm BUSY. On the other hand, that IS how I met my current boyfriend, so I guess I can't complain all that much :)

14 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Review: Where the Red ... · 1 reply · +1 points

I read this aloud with my dad when I was about 10. We both bawled through the ending! One of the saddest books I've read, I think...but it was a long time ago. It's too bad that there aren't very positive representations of women throughout the book. I don't remember Billy or his family much, but the point you make about him crying a lot is interesting. I don't know how common perception of boy's emotionality has changed over time, but I think it's a good thing to have children exposed to sensitive male characters who experience a full range of human emotion, which is all too rare in mainstream media.

14 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Review: Never Let Me G... · 0 replies · +1 points

I liked this book a lot too, and I loved your analogy to that Mona Lisa art piece!

15 years ago @ The Blue Bookcase - Book Lists · 0 replies · +1 points

I use Goodreads too, and update obsessively!

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