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i am: 40...a capricorn / moon in pisces / libra rising...an old soul with a young spirit...older than i look...contemplating my 3rd tattoo...NOT a web designer...a lesbian...working things out with the g.f....a native iowan...a graduate of cornell college and ohio state...a critical reader and thinker...really rather shy...agnostic...an ardent feminist...a bleeding-heart liberal...a pacifist...and so not your average white grrl...
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April 10, 2003
lovely, indeedi know this weekend is almost here, but all week long, i've been wanting to blog about how i spent the better part of the last one. see...i read one of the most beautiful books i've read in a very long time—the lovely bones. anitra recommended it to me sometime late last year, i put it on my wish list, and s—the person who gives me stuff just because i want it—gave it to me for my birthday.
shortly thereafter, tho, we decided to move...and amidst all the packing and painting and shopping unpacking, i hadn't really been doing a lot of reading. then jason blogged about the book, and i thought, "hey! i have that book." it was even unpacked.
once i picked it up last saturday afternoon, i only put it down because it was 1 a.m. and i couldn't keep my eyelids open any longer. i started reading again at 7:30 on sunday morning and read 'til i'd finished it. i don't do this very often.
nor do i find myself feeling this way about a book very often. sula first did it to me, back in 1986, when i was just realizing that i was a lesbian. i've always joked that i "came out academically," and sula was the book that helped me along that journey.
sidebar: i got an e-mail the other day from a student doing her senior thesis on the lesbian relationship between sula and nel in that book. she found this blog during a web search and thought she might want to cite me in her research, as most of what she's read on the topic supports the view that sula's and nel's relationship was NOT lesbian in nature. how cool is that? :)
anyway...i won't give you synopses or reviews, which you can find in abundance elsewhere. just read it, okay? trust me.
3:37 PM
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