Intimate Relations with Strangers
Geez, first Freewill and now Intimate Relations with Strangers – weird and more weird.
TW really liked this book and I guess I liked it, sort of. It was just really weird. I think I liked it better toward the end. It moved faster. Jumped time really quickly. Brought the character that tied it all together into the picture.
But still. Weird. Very very weird.
And, beware of white cats. Just sayin’.
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links for 2008-04-11
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For now, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, friends (and even men!) – click through, check it out. These emotionally charged, gut-spilling letters are worth every second I’ve already spent reading them – times one hundred.
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At least I know for sure, in the case of BlogHer bloggers and their readers that there is a high trust factor going on between them, and that’s something that women bloggers and readers need to know about each other. In Women We DO Trust.
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2 more Printz books down
I picked up Freewill expecting, I don’t know what… TW read it last week and said she didn’t understand a word. Well. Yea. Weird book. I cannot imagine a teen reading this book and really enjoying it. Pretty disappointed Printz Award nominee, I think. It feels like a book we should all like and one that kids should all like – but we don’t, and they won’t.
Then, because I didn’t know what I was supposed to be reading next, I grabbed Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th Century Art. Quick and easy to read and finish – and it was. I didn’t really expect much from it. It looks like a little kids’ book but it wasn’t. The poetry was interesting and the art was fantastic. And that’s what this is about – poets choosing a work of art and writing poetry inspired by the art. Good stuff.
So – one Printz not so good, another very good and two more scratched off the list. It was a good night for challenges.
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links for 2008-04-10
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A new World Bank-IMF report warns that most countries will fall short on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight globally agreed development goals with a due date of 2015. Though much of the world is set to cut extreme poverty in half by t
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That’s right. All I have to do is give my second-born child the middle name CRUNCH, and I could be eligible to maybe win a whole $5000, on top of a year’s supply of pickles, maybe.
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Video from BlogHer Biz – welcome, state of the social media world
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So, the hullabaloo that was last week’s BlogHer Business is over, and while I did not attend, a couple of my fantastic colleagues did, including Charlie Kondek, MS&L’s Director of New Media Relations. Since he sits just about an arm’s length from me
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So you’ve got your shiny new blog all set up. You’ve decorated with a nice theme, installed some tools, put a few useful things in the sidebars and written your first few posts. You’ve gone to the Izea Boards and other online communities and invited every
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Yea. I’m Mad. And a Bitch, Too.
Thanks PunditMom even if being mad makes me queasy.
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Cry Wolf
Don’t bother clicking over to the amazon page for Cry Wolf, unless you’re planning on buying it. There’s nothing there that would lead you to want to check this thing out. Thank goodness for people like Liz who blog about really obscure lesbian utopias (or dystopias, as the case may be.)
She posts stuff like this all of the time:
– classroom scene, with Curie’s speech about Blue
– Mutants!
– Global climate change
– the bitter, lonely inner thoughts of Curie
– Sexual tension of Curie (and everyone, but especially and her best pupil Sophie)
– The festival with the cult dancers and the orgy in the river. Don’t miss the sexy hermaphrodite sex scenes. Here there be “fringe”. Tentacles?
– Telepathy!
– Curie begins to tell a mythical version of the past to Sophie.
– Curie’s mother was one of the women of Greenham Common
And when she posts stuff like this about obscure novels I immediately head to my library’s interlibrary loan page and try to have the masterpiece sent to me. Thank goodness Cry Wolf arrived.
Awesome. And I won’t say anything more because Liz has it all covered. Loved it and loved the Scheherazade stories of the women.
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links for 2008-04-09
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I’ve made $25 total using Google Ads so far (though they don’t send a check til you rack up $100), which equates to less than $4/month. BlogHer is more lucrative by $2-4/month, and they send a check any time you rack up as little as $25, but they’re also
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I’m surprised it took two years for Ella to pick up the word, since one of my favorite moments from the first year of Ella’s life was reading the monologue “I was there in the room“(video not of me) for a production of the Vagina Monologues when s
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CHIP IN: Announcement number two! I have the opportunity to go to Rwanda to visit my friend Odette’s daughters and to encourage all the other girls along the way. “They need to know they are the power behind their country,” my dear Odette says to me
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Being a parent is a constant struggle to balance keeping our kids safe and teaching them how to take care of themselves. I suppose this story is so sensational because the subway represents, for many, the seedy underbelly of a busy city (whether it really
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Maybe I’m naive, but I don’t understand this attitude that everyone else who does what I do is somehow standing between me and success.
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links for 2008-04-08
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As part of our BlogHers Act commitment to make a difference on the issue of maternal health, BlogHer has joined forces with Global Giving to help save women’s lives and we need your help. We’ve spent the last six months blogging about serious issues relat
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Should I add these to my Printz Award challenge? I’ve read most of “Your Own Sylvia…”
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The Silicon Valley Moms Group was in town for the annual BlogHer conference, a gathering for women entrepreneurs in the Web world, so we invited them to my office for a visit. There was no better way to learn who they were, and why they wrote about their
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Ok, look. You can hate Clinton or love her, but this is the lowest form of campaign journalism and it should be condemned. At this point they have said, over and over again, that Clinton told “untruths” or “exaggerated” when the fact is that she repeated
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The fathers quoted in the article, all of whom were given anonymity in exchange for honesty, protest a little too much about how totally awesome and gay-friendly they are (“If I”m on a set and there are no gay people, I actually get worried,” one who wor
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