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February 2008
Breathing Underwater
Where did Breathing Underwater come from? I know I saw it on a blog and was pleasantly surprised that my library had it. (Another example of oddness – they have this obscure lesbian stuff but not Lauren Willig’s books.)
Anyway, it was a very fast read and more than a little odd. The drowning thing – crazy. But then again, the whole town is crazy so I guess it only makes sense. I liked Lily, bless her heart. I liked that they brought in the black lesbian to help her sort herself out. I’m glad she figured out that she and Rae didn’t want the same things.
I think I liked the book. But I didn’t love it.
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links for 2008-02-24
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“I wanna see a Venn Diagram that shows the differences and overlaps between ‘Authenticity’ and ‘Transparency’.”
The thought immediately attracted conflicting (yet brilliant) definitions of the terms.
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Wednesday Wars
I have been in bed almost all day. Sort of an accidental participation on Bring a Book to Bed Day due to some combination of exhaustion and a cold or something. I slept a good bit but I also read quite a lot.
I finished Wednesday Wars, which I discovered when I was looking at the list of YA finalists for Cybil Awards.
I laughed my way through it. I laughed a lot more than TW did when she read it. Possibly because of the “rats” or possibly because of the Shakespeare. Or maybe it was all of the death threats a 7th grader can get.
Great book.
Peony in Love
Way back in January when I created my From the Stacks challenge my mom sent me email (or maybe we talked on the phone?) and started questioning the books on my list. In doing so, she asked whether I had read this or read that and my response was either “No, should I” or “Duh, you don’t read my blog, do you?”
Peony in Love was one of the books she asked about. No, I hadn’t read it. Hell, I didn’t even know Lisa See had a new book. Once I found out, I reserved it. TW read it a couple of weeks ago, I finished it last night.
It was good. Not as good as Snow Flower and the Secret Fan but still very very good.
Lovesick girls. Women poets. Ghosts.
That ghost thing, particularly the hungry ghost thing, was an excellent idea for the lovesick girls/women poets story line that this book follows. Brilliant.
Thinking deep thoughts
This is what teenage boys (and middle aged women) do at synchronized swimming meets. We stare blankly and think deep thoughts so as not to hear “We are family” played on a loudspeaker over… and over… and over… and overrrrrr… again.
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links for 2008-02-21
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The MORE to ME Declaration & Signatures will be sent to:
* Presidential Candidates
* State Senators & Congressional Committee Members
* Influential Educational Policy Makers
* Political Advocacy Groups
* Editors of Teen directed -
“In The Loop With iVillage,” NBC Universal’s second attempt to translate the women’s oriented Web site iVillage into a television show, will go off the air at the end of March.
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(for Mel)
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I want the remaining male candidates running for president to be subjected to the same sexist scrutiny for the duration of the campaign.
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Gun on campus – email isn’t enough especially if it doesn’t arrive
Michelle wasn’t at SFCC yesterday, she was at work. She did however hear all about the gun on campus from friends. She did not hear about it from administrators of SFCC.
She did not get an email in either her SFCC account or her personal account.
She did not get a phone call on her cell phone or on her home phone.
The emergency text message service was not used.
A friend of hers was at school, attending classes and roaming the campus, and she didn’t hear about the gunman until she got home from school…
I’ll be interested in hearing what was discussed at the meeting that occurred today, at 11:30am and at the Student Government meeting going on right about now.
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Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba is an orange Penguin book on my “From the Stacks” challenge, and probably the last book from that challenge that I’ll read for awhile. I realized last night that I’m going about my challenges all wrong and that I should hang onto the books from that one ’til summer when library visits will probably be few and far between. So, anyway, about the book.
Non-fiction, memoir from Jackie Lydon. Interesting in that watching a never-ending train wreck sort of way. Also depressing in that mental health care in this country STUNK in the 70s and 80s and isn’t a whole lot better now sort of way.
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