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About meSingle white female seeks hardcover or non-trade paperback book for hours of physically passive entertainment. Would prefer this to be your first relationship, though if you've been pawed by a few other owners this may be acceptable providing previous owners were non-smokers with clean hands. Pages with folded corners are a deal breaker.
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About my libraryMy tags speak as to the kind of books with which I fill my library. If you were to combine all of my books into one, you'd have an existentialist pulp masterpiece involving upper class imperialists during WWII in which all of the principle characters savor their food whilst on the run from lesbian vampire first wave feminists. All of the women in the story are beautiful and emotionally complex, and most of the men are homosexual. There would be a happy ending to the story if it weren't for the fact that everyone's marriage has ended disastrously due to the prevalence of Kafkaesque incest and erotic encounters between linguistics instructors and their expatriate drifter students.

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The last time I taught Odd Women it was w/Bronte's Shirley, Gaskell's North & South, & Hardy -- either Tess or Jude, I can't remember. I do remember loving that class, tho. . . maybe I'll reprise it

posted by susanbooks at 1:48 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2012

I admit, while hanging my head in shame, that The Land of Spices sat for a long time on my night table, only twenty pages read. I was hell-bent on finishing my novel at the time, and my brain was too fried for anything other than the lightest fare. Since then, well, I'm sure you know how the TBR pile swallows things. But I'm sure I'll pick it back up-- how can I stay away forever when the book involves my own favorite fixation... nuns? Bless 'em. That and now you've found O'Brien worthy of Woolf-like obsession.

What are you reading?

posted by 7sistersapphist at 12:12 am (EST) on Jan 30, 2012

Hey!

My belated response on Gissing: for me he's hit or miss, either really good or unreadable. I loved Odd Women, too. I think it's about time for me to reread it. I'll have to find a class to subject to it, which is how I do most of my rereading.

Your review of Ann Wadsworth's Light Coming Back just saved my reading life. I'm in one of those places where I'm desperate for a great novel. I picked that up with high hopes & got through 40 pages. Perhaps it's just me, I thought, that thinks this cold fish of a protagonist is a killing bore. You've beautifully described everything I hate about the book already. Thank you for liberating me!

posted by susanbooks at 7:26 pm (EST) on Jan 29, 2012

Two-thirds through, and to be honest, I'm quite disappointed with it. Foster was openly lesbian in a time when only a very few brave souls were. She was a scholar who lived/taught in 17 states. She chased plenty of women, worked for Kinsey, and published the first survey of lesbians in literature. How could anyone make this material dry? Yet dry it is. I've gotten almost no sense of Foster as a breathing human being.

I won't discourage you from reading it, but would say that if you do, do it for the historical information. Engaging it isn't. Then again, knowing your interests, you might be intrigued by its accounts of relationships among (and between) students and instructors in the 1910's and 20's.

What are you reading?

posted by 7sistersapphist at 7:50 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2012

You're very fond of [The Illusionist], as I recall. Are you already familiar with this trash-a-licious cover of its first US paperback edition?
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/FrameBase?content=/en/imagegallery/imagegallery....

posted by 7sistersapphist at 11:44 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2011

Do the bloggers not notice that the so-called village slob is actually the village rapist? Oh, but it's okay because he only attacks when his spidey sense tells him the woman is sexually unfulfilled. The women love it, of course, and orgasms are had all around. It keeps the village together.

What can one possibly say? I hadn't read anything quite this bad in The New Yorker before.

posted by 7sistersapphist at 3:59 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2011

Do you get The New Yorker? Did you read "An Anonymous Island" in the current issue? I could just spit.

posted by 7sistersapphist at 9:42 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2011

I owe you thanks! You recommended that I check out Nin's diaries. I've read one volume (6, cos it was what I could get my hands on), & really enjoyed it a lot. Some beautiful things in there. And there was this:

"The neighbors trust me with their children every time they need to go out. The idea of trusting your children to a surrealist must be encouraged."

I want to use that line all the time but I can't think of any way to work it into my sort of daily conversations. It's on my LT profile now, tho, so at least that's something.

What have you been reading?

posted by susanbooks at 10:53 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2011

Hmm, I must admit I don't remember that one very well--or Cantrip's role. Something something vacation, drowning...? Wales? Greece? Seychelles? (Clearly, I could stand a reread...)

posted by LolaWalser at 3:28 pm (EST) on May 30, 2011

Oh, that's great that you're enjoying them! Thanks for letting me know--love the vicarious first-time-reading thrill. Yeah, I too wish Caudwell had been spared a bit longer and wrote more. Damn cancer.

posted by LolaWalser at 4:36 pm (EST) on May 8, 2011