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Combinatorica, Volume 10
Volume 10, Number 1, 1990
- Imre Csiszár, János Körner, László Lovász, Katalin Marton, Gábor Simonyi: Entropy splitting for antiblocking corners and perfect graphs. 27-40
- Valerie King: A lower bound for the recognition of digraph properties. 53-59
- Michel Las Vergnas: An upper bound for the number of Eulerian orientations of a regular graph. 61-65
- Alexander A. Razborov: Applications of matrix methods to the theory of lower bounds in computational complexity. 81-93
- Joel Spencer: Infinite spectra in the first order theory of graphs. 95-102
- Pierre G. Bonneau: Weight distribution of translates of MDS codes. 103-106
Volume 10, Number 2, 1990
- Gábor Fejes Tóth, János Pach: Special issue dedicated to discrete and computational geometry. 113-114
- Ralph Alexander: Geometric methods in the study of irregularities of distribution. 115-136
- Boris Aronov, Micha Sharir: Triangles in space or building (and analyzing) castles in the air. 137-173
- Hans L. Bodlaender, Peter Gritzmann, Victor Klee, Jan van Leeuwen: Computational complexity of norm-maximization. 203-225
Volume 10, Number 3, 1990
- Bernard Chazelle, Joel Friedman: A deterministic view of random sampling and its use in geometry. 229-249
- Herbert Edelsbrunner: An acyclicity theorem for cell complexes in d dimension. 251-260
- Gil Kalai: On low-dimensional faces that high-dimensional polytopes must have. 271-280
- M. Laczkovich: Tiling of polygons with similar triangles. 281-306
- Richard Pollack, Rephael Wenger: Necessary and sufficient conditions for hyperplane transversals. 307-311
Volume 10, Number 4, 1990
- Noga Alon: The maximum number of Hamiltonian paths in tournaments. 319-324
- András Frank: Packing paths in planar graphs. 325-331
- J. C. Lagarias, Hendrik W. Lenstra Jr., Claus-Peter Schnorr: Korkin-Zolotarev bases and successive minima of a lattice and its reciprocal lattice. 333-348
- Brendan D. McKay: The asymptotic numbers of regular tournaments, Eulerian digraphs and Eulerian oriented graphs. 367-377
- Paul D. Seymour: Colouring series-parallel graphs. 379-392
- Aart Blokhuis: Solution of an extremal problem for sets using resultants of polynomials. 393-396


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Of course, these far left progressive dupes, otherwise known as "useful idiots", believe that Iran is simply trying to develop nuclear for peaceful energy production (yet these same types of useful idiots block any and all attempts to expand nuclear energy elsewhere). So, of course their missive in the Iran controlled Fars News Agency
In a meeting that was held on January 12, 2013 at Riverside Church in New York, on the occasion of the 85th birthday of Ramsey Clark, the former US Attorney General, which coincided with the 20th anniversary of establishment of International Action Center (IAC), Ramsey Clark and Sara Flounders, the co-founder of IAC, initiated signing a petition titled '99ers on the negotiations of G5+1 with Iran'. The text of the petition which has been sponsored by a growing number of antiwar organizations including Solidarity with Iran – SI campaign and IAC is as follows.
As we approach the new round of negotiations between the G5+1 and Iran to discuss the so called 'Iran's nuclear issue', we, the undersigned, declare our stand on this issue, as follows:
There are two sides in this dispute, one composed of the US and its allies in the European Union who accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons – without presenting even an iota of credible facts and supporting documents – and the other, Iran, which is striving to protect its right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes based on provisions of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Using an unfounded accusation as a pretext for acts of aggressions, one side of the dispute headed by the US empire is currently punishing the other side, Iran, with the genocidal sanctions, an inhuman act that has endangered the life of tens of millions of innocent Iranian citizens for their "crime" of deciding to live independent and free from the yoke of hegemonic powers. The excuse for these aggressions is an allegation that has strongly been denied by Iranian officials and international organizations such as the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) representing 120 countries. Furthermore, the charge against Iran on intending to develop nuclear weapons has even been refuted by the intelligent agencies of the US itself.
Should anyone be surprised that these "99er" take the side of Iran against the United States? Clarke et all provide even more venom aimed at the United States as the letter goes on, and ends with their demands
- Lift immediately all sanctions and stop threats of war against Iran.
- Fair deal with Iran, recognize the right of the Iranian people to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
- Hands off Iran
The hardcore Islamists in charge of Iran must be thrilled to such useful idiots on their side.
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- How do we know this Jane Harman story has legs? The New York Times is reporting on it now, one whole day after the news broke on Congressional Quarterly's blog. [New York Times]
- Banks are just sittin' on their TARP money instead of lending it out to the taxpayers who coughed up the cash in the first place. [ABC News]
- The accused "Craigslist Killer," a man arrested for killing a masseuse at a fancy Boston hotel, is a BU student with a devoted fiancee. [AP]
- Everybody is laughing at President Obama's request to his cabinet to find $100 million whole dollars in spending cuts in the budget. [US News and World Report]
- The Iranian President's speech at the UN racism conference could have been even more objectionable if he hadn't extemporaneously omitted a Holocaust-denial remark from his prepared text, so just be thankful. [AP]
- Miss California totally could have become Miss USA if Perez Hilton hadn't asked her that question about gay marriage. [Newsday]
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MISTAHCOUGHDROP Yes! It's A Book About Death… Maybe a piece about the death of the GOP?
Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! I thought Jane Harman had immunity as a Member of the Knesset.
Lazy Media [re=294869]Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish![/re]: Not all Jews are members of the Knesset! Please, Wonkette doesn't need ugly stereotypes.
Lazy Media That Miss California is exactly like the early Christians who were fed to the lions in the Coliseum, if instead of eating you, the lions called you fat and drew pictures of dicks next to your mouth. Never forget.
steverino247 Friendly reminder to Rep. Jane Harman:
Uh, that's the Constitution of the United States you're sworn to uphold, not some ATM outside AIPAC's headquarters.
Canmon (the Inadequate) The Right has a new Palinesque hero in Miss California. The funny thing is, her answer was basically the same as Obama's at Saddleback. She thinks marriage should be between a man and a woman but it should be up to the voters to decide.
norbizness Re: Craigslist. It's time to preemptively lock up all yuppies until Mayan Doomsday.
Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! [re=294870]Lazy Media[/re]: Really?!!!11!!!! Then my college roommate had a way cool story he made up to get girls.
Texan Bulldoggette Miss CA needs to get her own reality show or become Hef's girlfriend already, because I'm already tired of seeing her lameass on teevee. But her catfight with Perez Hilton is pretty funny seeing that Perez called her the c-word yesterday on MSNBC.
Kingbee [re=294870]Lazy Media[/re]: Funny — Tommy Says Sooo doesn't LOOK Jugdish!
Lazy Media [re=294881]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I'm having a hard time picking a team. I mean, you've got Miss Fundagelical over here; you can't side with her. But she's fighting with Perez Hilton, who is The Worst Person in the World (not on the Fox network). Can't they restage an Alexis-Krystle catfight, only in an active volcano?
user-of-owls [re=294881]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Perez called her the c-word yesterday on MSNBC
Wow, they let him actually say "conservative" on TV?
hobospacejunkie [re=294881]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: …Perez called her the c-word yesterday on MSNBC.
Carbonaceous? Catatonic? Cacophonous?
Texan Bulldoggette [re=294889]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Cunt!
Zadig The whole Ahmadinejad thing makes me think of him at his desk, reviewing his planned speech, and getting to the "Holocaust is overrated" part and thinking, "actually, now that I think about it that's a little offensive". Scratch that out, then.
Flash forward to yesterday, when everyone gets up and walks out. Mammers is thinking "What? What did I say? I swear to god I'll get it right next time."
hobospacejunkie [re=294894]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Oh, right. Yeah. That makes more sense.
Zadig Also, with the whole Miss CA thing, maybe puerile man-bitch Perez disqualified her because she hates the gays (she wouldn't even say it!), but I would have disqualified her for her answer being butt-fucking stupid and inarticulate. "Opposite marriage"? Really? And she followed up "you can choose" with "no, you can't actually."
Mr Blifil In the guy's defence, the masseuse's ad ran: ISO psycho-yuppie-choker with Heritage Foundation looks for sensual bodywork with happy ending and brutal murdertime.
So in a way she was asking for it, kinda.
dijetlo "Prejean Monday said she was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything."
Just below that on the Newsday sight is a picture of her in high heels and a bikini, shaking her money maker for the crowd and fortunately she doesn't compromise when it comes to camel toe either. -
x111e7thst [re=294868]allainjules[/re]: Ne m'emerdez pas avec vos histoires
Come here a minute Wonkette commenters couldn't even come up with a mildly amusing photo caption — we have absolutely no chance of delivering a hundred-million-dollar punch line.
hobospacejunkie Golly, that fiance sure is going to have egg on her face if it turns out he did it. For the moment, he sure got some 'splainin' to do.
WadISay Ask Ms. CA something she knows something about. What does she think about anal on the first date?
Cape Clod So Miss USA has to answer political questions these days? What was her response when she was asked to give her fealings on the two state solution in Palestine?
Terry ""I can't even put it into words, the disbelief I'm feeling right now," neighbor Jonathan Uva said. "This is a great guy, I met him a few times, saw him in the hall everyday, (he) always said, 'hey how you doing Jon, what's going on.' Just a total disconnect from what we're hearing in the news.""
Yes, because a person who greets you in a cordial and superficial way in the hallway certainly couldn't be a killer.
Zadig [re=294899]dijetlo[/re]: Exactly.
[re=294906]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Honey, we need to talk…
Zadig [re=294909]WadISay[/re]: Did he spring for the lobster?
Sussemilch Thank god we have brilliant minds like Miss California around to solve important issues like gay marriage, because when the whole country is fighting and divided over an important social issue, what we really need to provide leadership is the giggling quips of a professional mannequin.
Nothing personal, but we really shouldn't have flaming gay people interviewing pretty women. The idea is to make them all look pretty, not all look ugly. The host should be someone like Dean Martin, and he should shamelessly flirt, and he should ask questions that make them all excited and bubbly, not leave them dry and scared and threatened.
Perez Hilton, you are free to be as gay as you like all the time. Just do not fuck with what you do not understand: People put pretty girls on television because other people want to fuck them, not talk fashion with them.
Swampwitch [re=294909]WadISay[/re]: She seems conservative, she did anal with her highschool boyfriend to preserve her virginity. But she's sure it wasn't real sex.
You want buttsecks on the first date, you're going to have to stick to a Wonkette commenter or other similar libtard.
SayItWithWookies [re=294909]WadISay[/re]: She's opposed to it. It's important to look relaxed and not too nitpicky when you're making a first impression.
Canmon (the Inadequate) [re=294948]Swampwitch[/re]: She calls it "opposite intercourse".
Swampwitch [re=294971]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: It's a tragedy that our nation's beauty pageant contestants have fallen victim to the soft bigotry of lowered expectations and are no longer expected to fucking learn a simple word like heterosexual.
Mustang I thought her speaking skills revealed great governor potential.
Cy_Guy RE: the $100M in cuts, I haven't heard anyone point out that Obama does not have a line item veto, he can't just pick programs not to fund in the current year's (FY'09) budget. Hopefully the agency heads are doing just what he had previously promised they would of going through the appropriations bills for NEXT YEAR (FY'10) to identify ineffective programs that should not receive appropriations in the future.
But as for the FY'09 appropriations, the only cuts that can be made by the administration are these marginal administrative expenses such as hiring graphics designers at DHS, or using video conferencing instead of actual conferences at the VA.
Blender The only reason the NYT ran the Harman story was because they got the opportunity to yammer about themselves and they didn't even have to lift their donut-stained fingers and dial the phone to get a quote from Keller.
And, Perez Hilton was a JUDGE? Where did they hold the "pageant?" The Holiday Inn?
Custerwolf Meanwhile Miss California's push-up bra was overheard complaining that it needs more to work with.
Zadig [re=295010]Cy_Guy[/re]: Congress appropriates the money, tells the administration what areas to spend it in, and with the exception of specific projects, the various executive departments are in charge of spending it. If they do their work under budget, then that is savings.
If your boss gives you a budget for a project, you aren't required to spend it all (as long as you complete the project), and unspent budget money doesn't just disappear into the aether. It goes back into the company, or in this metaphor, the government.
Custerwolf [re=294898]Mr Blifil[/re]: Kiss me.
Custerwolf [re=294902]Come here a minute[/re]: I looked at that goddamn photo – thought of several funny things to say – all I got was the sound of crickets.
What I know of cricket?
Cricket is the teeth of all my neighbors.
That's all I know of cricket.
And all I need to know. -
UncleTom When are we going to see Miss Ca on the Gay-Storm ad.
Scene Opens: Pretty Blond in disheveled white evening dress and rinestone tiara, clutching a bunch of wilted roses. Behind her the gay lightning and clouds threaten.
Same sex marriage advocates want to keep pretty white girls like me from going to college or nation-wide bus tours of shopping malls. I'll be dumb, poor and I won't be able to find a trustifarian lawyer to make me his trophy wife. I'll have marry some fat chick like Rosie O'Donnel or Queen Latifa and have all of their babies. They are trying to ruin white girls again! Like after the Supremes Court made us marry hugely endowed black men in 1967.
gurukalehuru Jane, Jane, Jane, don't expect any support from us low-life lefties when what you're accused of is consorting with Republicans, and the New York Times, to not make a big deal over the wiretapping, and throwing the 2004 election, so as to cover up your lobbying on behalf of a foreign power. Go ask Gonzo if you need help, I hear he was a lawyer once.
re: Miss California, that was an unfair question. Even the most seasoned politicians stumble on that one. Just line them up on stage in bikinis, loudest applause wins.
At least she didn't say we needed maps for all the Iraqs, such as. -
Lazy Media [re=295028]Zadig[/re]: Right, but the Obama criticism consists of three, mutually incompatible rants, all of which were heard simultaneously at the tea parties:
Why doesn't Obama end the recession? (He's trying; that's what the stimulus spending is meant to do).
Why are taxes so high, and why did Obama raise them? (They're not, idiot, and he didn't. Quite the opposite. He's gonna raise them slightly on rich people, but not until the economy stops shrinking).
Why aren't we balancing the budget? (See answers 1 and 2, you retard).It makes no sense to cut federal spending at the same time you're intentionally boosting deficit spending in an attempt to spur private spending/investment. That's a deflationary move, and we're quite far enough along the way to deflation as it is.
Now, the time to have cut spending would have been, I dunno, when the government was taking in tons of revenue from housing speculators? Could have balanced things pretty easily in 2005-7.
Zadig [re=295069]Lazy Media[/re]: In 2005-7? Don't you know there is/was a war on? We had to show our patriotism by cutting taxes and buying a billion F-22s.
In all seriousness, 100 million sounds about right for trimming out one or two things that are actually, you know, wasteful. Everyone that says that 100 mill is a drop in the bucket is right, but it's not a bad thing like they make it sound. All federal dollars spent are not equal, and we do in fact NEED more of the *right* kind of government spending.
eekahil Dear Miss Prejean,
In regard to <>
Fair enough but what about learning, experience, passage of time – stuff by which your opinions and beliefs change, adapt,evolve (oopsie! sorry about using the "e word" !)? Have you compromised your beliefs in Santy Claus and the Tooth Fairy? Has your opinion that SweeTarts(tm) is the only food worth eating remained steadfast?
eekahil -
Holy Cow!! Dear Miss Cali,
Please get off the cross.
Custerwolf [re=295139]Holy Cow!![/re]: Yeah, I could use the wood.
Min I'm confused. I thought gay guys were the only ones who even watched the Miss USA pageant anymore.
[re=294910]Cape Clod[/re]: "I didn't know Palestine was a state."
Icecycle He without stones should throw the first sin.
(wait a fcuk'n minuet, leave a dancing saving throw for the drunk poster here)Can an atheist get married?
(if so it is not a religuis issue.}
(if not; then we really have a church, state problem.)Family values seems to be some kind of 'My feelings get hurt if someone else is happy'.
Screw you, I am straight (married in fact) and do not give a fcuk what you think.
(Besides, some of my best friends are Republicans.)


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~~The beautiful singing of children was all that could be heard
by anyone back at the warren. All of the humans were gathered
around the big tree where the warren was. Bigwig and Buttercup
were both outside, watching and listening to them. They were
doing the same thing Bigwig heard them doing before, but this was
different, it was a very precious sound.
"What are they doing?" Bigwig asked.
"I don't know, but it's wonderful, isn't it?" said
Bigwig listened to it more, growing more and more fascinated by
it. "Maybe there is more to man than we know."
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sounded like a fox, except that he thought that was impossible.
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corner. They saw the people standing there and they
"What do we do, Hazel?" cried Dandelion.
"Keep going." he ordered. "Run straight through, don't stop."
They darted through the legs of the astonished humans and darted
past Bigwig and Buttercup into the burrow. The fox came around
the bend, too, but after seeing all the people, turned around and
went straight the other way.
Bigwig ran down to join Hazel and the others, who were more tired
than they'd ever been before. "That looked like a near thing,
Hazel." he said. "How'd that fox get back on our trail?" Hazel
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"Just stubborn, I suppose. Are you alright?"
"Yes, I am." He talked in a shameful tone, and hanged his head
for a moment before continuing. "We were all wrong about
"I knew it!" Fiver tried to yell, but was also too tired to say
anything loud. "It was the fox I sensed."
"You can sense foxes?" Buttercup asked in astonishment.
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gifted. The thing is, we're safe here, always were."
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"They won't hurt us." said Brudinal, who had just came down the
run. "They care about us."
"Apparently they like rabbits." said Bigwig.
"Good humans?" asked Hazel.
"Now that's a strange idea." said Hawkbit. "Although it would be
nice if it's true."
"When we moved to Watership Down, you said we would need to
accept new ways of thinking and doing things." said Fiver to
"I did, didn't I?"
Buttercup and Brudinal stood in front of the other rabbits in a
sense of royalty. "We offer you our food and our friendship. As
man shares with us, we'd like to share with you."
"In the spirit of Frith's Eve, we accept." said Hazel proudly.
"And we thank you." From above the surface, more singing could be
heard, but this time, it was many times more beautiful than
"Listen, they're at it again." said Bigwig excitedly.
"It sounds right, doesn't it, Hazel?" said Fiver, who was also
incredibly amazed with it. "It's Frith's Eve, and it sounds
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taken to the pound by folks who did not want her Callie Cat escaped. . . instinct had led her back to where tribulation trumped death sickly and skinny Callie Cat scraped by until a chance encounter. . . how sweet the day my daughter came home with a calico! the cat who once lived a natural life outside grew happy and plump. . . eighteen years she ruled our hearts - the indoor queen of our home
THE INVISIBLE CAT he was out all night our tabby cat named tiger he's beat – sleeping now i asked him very kindly, "where do you go all night, tig?" no answer, of course kitties eat then disappear no one knows just where they are so sleek and so slim any crack is wide enough how fascinating how strange to visualize – our tig slipping through into this alternate world known only to the feline i've often seen tig blank, staring off into space, his feet in motion, hunting in this paradise where no effort will recall
The cat in the tree slowly climbed up and got stuck; only saw the top; never going to come down worked hard to enjoy his view.


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Regina Spektor hit the late night circuit to perform "All The Rowboats" last night on The Late Show With David Letterman, where the singer/pianist and her band showcased some serious chops. "Is that for sale?" Dave asked the cellist, earning a blank expression. Watch it below.
(via the Audio Perv)
What We Saw From the Cheap Seats is out 5/29 via Sire/Warner Bros.
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I have been feeling sentimental for the past couple of weeks, and it made me think of Persuasion. I haven't felt sentimental for quite some time, so i
I have been feeling sentimental for the past couple of weeks, and it made me think of Persuasion. I haven't felt sentimental for quite some time, so it feels like a sort of stiff and creaky homecoming in some ways. The Amanda Root/Ciaran Hinds movie of Persuasion has traditionally been my go-to movie for sick days, but I haven't watched it in a couple of years because somehow I lost the feeling that let me sit through a beautiful love story. But, here I am, these past couple of weeks, mulling over sloppy bowls of soup, sliced mutton, intemperate sorbet, skin like macaroons, and some of the best marzipan in all of Bath. Actually, maybe I'm just hungry. Just kidding, but I think there is something in the messy appreciation of food in the movie that speaks to my home-and-family-comfort sensibility. And, yes, this review is going to mostly be about the movie because I saw and loved it before I read the book, and even though I loved the book on its own, it is impossible for me to remember it on its own. So, the food and powder and grease and almost-tangible smells of the movie are going to be all up in this review because they were all up in my reading of the book and are my sense-memory of this story. The real reason I'm feeling sentimental is because I lost some people I love a couple of weeks ago. They didn't die, but you know how sometimes when you don't fit into people's lives anymore, it is a similar mourning to experiencing death? It is for me anyway. This past year, I worked with these four people, who are some of the best people I have met, and we have all been through a lot together. And I love them in that way, where when I see them, my heart jumps into my throat. My dear friends, like family. I am working on the fourth floor of my building now, where I was on the second, and sometimes that is enough to lose people. It is not bad, but mourning is hard. Anne has that sense of not fitting into the lives around her, and I have always identified with that. In a lot of ways, I've identified with Anne, and I would say of all the Austen stories, Persuasion resonates with me the most, with the possible exception of Sense and Sensibility. Mostly, the idea of Wentworth coming back, and Anne and he still loving each other, seems to me like the most hopeful and meaningful story of romantic love that Austen tells. They love each other because they know each other, and that is beautiful. I love the cynical humor of Elizabeth and Darcy and the sad wisdom of Marrianne and Col. Brandon, but Anne and Wentworth is the most hopeful couple to me. In my view, if you can come back to love after heartbreak and years, then it was real and not based on inventing an ideal of another person. But, Anne was always identifiable to me in this other way, in her lostness and sense of despising her family, but at the same time being their unappreciated servant. Maybe it is arrogant of me to say I identified with that, but it is true. One morning, after I returned from Peace Corps and was living with my parents to help them with their business, we were sitting on our porch eating breakfast. My dad started telling me not to give up hope about someday getting married because a guy working in our neighbor's yard the day before had expressed some interest in me. Then, he started describing his trip to the coffee shop the weekend before. "I was sitting and watching people walk by," he explained, "and there are just so few really attractive women in the world. Sometimes, you'll see one really attractive woman, and then after her, there will be twenty women who are just ugly. When I was at coffee that morning, I counted forty-six women in a row who weren't worth looking at. But, it was a rainy morning, and not many women's looks can hold up to that." I must have smiled for the rest of the day. It was so wonderful. Anne's father from Persuasion: He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty, frights; and once, as he had stood in the shop in Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them. It had been a frosty morning, to be sure, a sharp frost, which hardly one woman in a thousand could stand the test of. And then, Anne has some culpability in her lostness. The story is sort of Anne's journey to figuring out how to stand up to her ridiculous family. And, even though Wentworth is the venue through which she can ultimately escape them, I think through the story she does develop her own ability to live her life. And she proves that by choosing the man, for herself, whom she rejected in the past for other people. I remember watching this movie over and over again, watching Anne's hopelessness about escaping her family, and watching her stand up to them, separate from them, and stop letting herself be victimized, even while keeping her sense of humility and service. I think that development of her character happens related to Wentworth's return, but also aside from the love story. I think I stopped watching this movie when I stopped being fascinated by that transformation, and it was when I had gone through that transformation myself, though admittedly in a more awkward, ham-fisted way. So, I think this story is always going to be a part of me and maybe a symbol, even, of transformation, long-lasting love, and spiritual intimacy. It is high-falutin' to use all of those phrases, but I think they apply here. Anne had to revisit her betrayal of Wentworth and develop the sense of self to allow her to reject Mr. Elliott and choose her own life. And even though my absolute favorite part of this story are Anne's sister and father and the ludicrous stuff they say, the brave quiet around her transformation is the sentiment that brings me back to this story and makes it one of the most comforting I have heard. ...more | Notes are private!
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Alexandra looked at him mournfully. "I try to be more liberal about such things than I used to be. I try to realize that we are not all made alike." Ev Alexandra looked at him mournfully. "I try to be more liberal about such things than I used to be. I try to realize that we are not all made alike." Everything in O Pioneers! is beauty to me. I am so in love with this book. Maybe it is because I have it in my brain that pioneers by definition suck that Willa Cather always catches me by surprise and turns me upside down. It's like walking through an alien landscape and then running into my best friend. I thought what I would find was Michael Landon crying into a butter churn, and here you are, everything that is wonderful about humans. Still, I never know whether to recommend that other people read this book, or whether it is better to just keep it to myself. As Alexandra says, we are not all made alike, and maybe what is beauty and revelation to me is Michael Landon crying into a butter churn to you. It's so easy to say why I hate writing and difficult to say why I love it. I want to compare Cather to Hemingway because of how steady and careful their writing is, because of how speculation about their lives cheapens conversations about their stories, but no. I want to say Cather writes what is in my soul, but that's not right either. What she writes is as much her own world as it is my reality, but that doesn't make her wisdom easy or her power arrogant. She is not looking for my approval, but she is looking outside herself for some kind of truth. At a particularly conflicted time in my life, I went to a club with some friends and I saw a girl dancing like I have never seen anyone dance in my life. She had cleared out as space for herself to the side of the stage, and it was like every part of her body was electric. It was not only beautiful, it was also full of life. Where I didn't know which way to turn, this girl was in the Place, doing the Thing. Reading O Pioneers! is like watching that girl. Everything is alive in this book. But, again, I'm struck by the feeling that it may not be alive to you as it is to me. I'll give you a few descriptions as objectively as I can, and you can judge for yourself. It is about contrasts: country and city, speed and slowness, youth and age, passion and steadiness, inspiration and hard work, deprivation and entitlement. It is operatic. It is kooky at times and kind, but not funny. It is understated and even-handed. It is written by a woman. It is about women and men, who are all sometimes as passionate as people are, and other times as wise as people should be. It is specific, but not petty. There are awkward parts (specifically book 2, chapter 9, though I even think that scene is beautiful). It's difficult to talk about this book without spoiling it, and I think a spoiler would really spoil the story. So, I'll just say one last thing that I hope won't be a spoiler, but might, so be warned. People get angry with authors who won't let their characters die and see it as a sign of accomplished writing to kill a character. I think, because of that, I see a lot of bad storytelling mistaken for good storytelling if the author tortures or kills the characters. I really hate when people think character abuse is maturity. At the same time, though, I think there is something right about trusting an author more if the author allows unhappiness into the story. Authors are writing to an audience, and I think they should be writing to entertain, so there is value to me in making stories better than life. At the same time, there is truth in sadness, and if a writer can't look at sadness, she has sacrificed truth to entertainment. Cather balances truth and entertainment in a way that is completely devastating. She loves her characters, and lets every one of them grow as humans grow, with human joys and human tragedies. It is painful and beautiful to watch. I almost want to read this book again right away, but too much wisdom in one month can't be good for my health. I'll take a little break first and watch some reality TV to balance out my wisdom intake. Just, you know, for my health. ...more | Notes are private!
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A couple of years ago I thought (as a gesture to God saying something like, "Hey, we don't disagree about everything and anyway what do I know about l
A couple of years ago I thought (as a gesture to God saying something like, "Hey, we don't disagree about everything and anyway what do I know about life?") that I would start going to a certain church where the pastor was an ex-football star. When I say it now it doesn't sound like a very good idea, but I did a lot of things at that time that sound stupid now. Sometimes it's better to go with what you know, even if it's very little. I say all of this because the ultimate falling-out I had with the pastor of that church reflects the central conflict of the great and wonderful mystery story, Gaudy Night, so I'm going to use this review as a venue to air my grievances, which will hopefully be entertaining enough that you can bear with me. In fact, this book brings up a couple of stories I have about churches, so I should probably say as a disclaimer that Gaudy Night is not religious at all in its topic, but deals mostly with the role of women in society. That just happens to be something about which I tend to get pissed off at churches. Rather than preaching topically, this football pastor had decided that the entire church (which may not be fully of mega-church size, but is by no means small) would read through the Bible together in a year, like you do, and he would pull the sermons from our reading assignments. On Mother's Day, we had just finished the book of Esther, so I was hopeful. There are a lot of troubling things about Esther, but also some really fascinating things. Also, it's about a woman, so there are many good ways you can go with that. Nope. I should have known he would skip Esther entirely only to pick a random section from Judges to illustrate his spiritual message, which, as far as I could tell, was that he really liked when his mom would scratch his back before bedtime when he was in high school, so women shouldn't work because they're silly and it takes away time they could devote to scratching their family's backs. As the sermon went on, I felt sure there would be some kind of uprising in the congregation. I was ready to get out my stash of pitchforks and torches and burn something down, but I didn't want to leave because I might miss the end of his message where I hoped he would reveal that he was faking us all out to prove some point or another. His passion about the message culminated when he pulled out a quote from Some Woman, who is reputed to have said, "If all women CEOs quit their jobs, men could feed their families." I looked around, hoping to see the scores of other women in the audience who would be equally shocked and appalled rushing for the door, when suddenly there was cheering and a woman in the back of the church yelled, "AMEN!" I don't think I've ever felt so betrayed in my life. The redemptive "Psych!" never came, so I drove home in a rage, pulled my copy of Backlash off its shelf, wrote a letter of complaint to the pastor in its inside cover, drove back to the church, and slammed it on the desk in his empty office. He never acknowledged the incident. I wish, at this point, I had read the book The Madwoman in the Attic, so that I could give more scholarly opinions about Gaudy Night. From what I know of that line of analysis, Dorothy Sayers's villain in this novel, the "poisen-pen" haunting the women of Oxford, is along the lines of the 19th century Madwoman (think Jane Eyre). She characterizes female sexuality, but also a loathing of female sexuality as castrating and destructive, so she is this horrifying repressed monster (Grendel's Mother, maybe?). In Gaudy Night this character terrorizes the cloistered professors in the women's college at Oxford. It really makes for a delightful read! Sayers presents the varied personalities of the dons and students of the university with a lot of color and flair. The fun and thoughtful discussion Dorothy Sayers presents in Gaudy Night on the topic of women being intelligent humans in their own right was vindicating and cathartic for me to read. She illustrates both the freedom and the shame that successful women feel, and does it in this funny, charming, British way that I adore. Harriet Vane is wonderful! Sayers doesn't pretend that all women are in favor of having rights, nor does she pretend that we are all a bunch of catty bitches. Some characters do become savage in their hatred of independent women, and those independent women become shrill in their suspicion of one another's virginity or sexuality. Sayers shows these aspects as momentary weaknesses, however, which are secondary to the overall trust and regard that the women show each other. They are not caricatures, but have their own flaws and charms. I'm making this sound like the whole story is purposeful critical analysis, which it may be, but it definitely comes off as natural within the overall mystery story. I don't even usually like mysteries, and I don't have a sense of suspense, so it is surprising how much I love this book, but that's probably why the social aspect was more striking to me. I'm not fully with her in her use of classical quotations, which I take as an Oxford thing. Lord Peter Whimsey makes his appearance to be useful, charming, and supplicating. He doesn't appear to be an overly realistic character (maybe too determinedly glad that Harriet is as smart as she is?), but I am in favor of wonderful authors writing people as they wish them to be, if not as they are – especially in the area of gender relations. Also, I love the way Sayers explores how women think of themselves. It would have been an unnecessary distraction to go into what men think of us. It was much more devastating to hear the woman shout "Amen!" at the back of that church, than to hear the male pastor go on about how women are good at scratching backs - and only that. Anyway, I think I've decided that maybe the use of classical quotations has to do with the battle of wits between Whimsey and Harriet, showing the equality of their intelligence and education. I like that, even though it was frustrating for my more pedestrian brain. I think I needed the Norton edition. I was given this book at a "housewarming shower", held for me by a really wonderful woman, who is the pastor of a subsequent church I attended. "Shower" because I am over 25 and unmarried, and it is presumed that I would be sad that I haven't had any wedding/baby showers. Men were uninvited to the event, and the (humorous?) theme of the "shower" was to give me books I would hate. This made my friends who came a little stressed out because they know how much I love books, so they felt all this pressure (contrary to the theme) to get me books I would love that I hadn't read yet. Also, to me, shower=bad. Other than stuff on my cat, I think this was the most successful book from that evening, and it actually makes all of the uncomfortable female judgment worth it. I kind of love that this book was given to me in this really awkward event that only women were allowed to come to. Even though the evening was pretty fun, and I really do love most of the women who came, the concept of the shower said so much about my "failure" in being an independent, educated woman. This book has so much to say to the contrary. I love irony. ...more | Notes are private!
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!!!!! This book kicks my ass. Moira Young has gotta be the Beatrix Kiddo of y/a writers. She comes in here, probably blindfolded or some such, turns t
!!!!! This book kicks my ass. Moira Young has gotta be the Beatrix Kiddo of y/a writers. She comes in here, probably blindfolded or some such, turns the conventional rescue story on its head, and then writes it all out in solid, beautiful dialect because that's just how badass she is. The effortlessness alone is enough to make me think we've arrived in some new country of storytelling. Suddenly, we're in the middle of it, and I didn't even realize the tour bus could go there. I don't even want to talk about all of the incredible women in this book because the telling of it is so nonchalant and so free from politics that it seems a shame to freak out about it. Even though it does make me freak out. We should have been talking about women like this the whole time. These girls are so legit. They talk to each other like girls talk. They kick ass the way girls kick ass. They are smart, but they're not trying to throw it in your face. They're just incidentally as cool as actual girls. I won't tell you much about this book because I don't want to spoil all the transitions from one kind of beauty to another. I don't want to spoil the easy absence of agenda, the genuine relationships, or the well-timed action. As I said before, this book kicked my ass, so I'm still in the fetal position, spitting blood and reflecting on the wussiness of my life and writing. However, I will pull myself together enough to reflect that, aside from being a post-apocalyptic story about how to be a sister and how to be a woman, this book is incidentally also about power and slavery. Don't get me wrong, though. This story is not allegorical in the way the Hunger Games is. (I really don't want to compare the two books, though, even though they are somewhat similar. The comparison really annoys me because I feel like it comes down to the scarcity of books with truly badass female characters. Comparing the writing would be like comparing Zora Neale Hurston and Willa Cather. Why would you? Both are wonderful and wonderfully different. It seems vulgar to compare authors only because they talk about women living in similar settings.) I am reading in a message about slavery here because, while this book contains slavery, it is ultimately about adventure, not about slavery or morality or politics. I am studying slavery in Zanzibar right now, though, so I'm going to comment on it. Estimates say that there are about 30 million slaves in the world right now – more than all of the slaves in the 19th century trans-Atlantic slave trade. Most of them are women and children. They process our sugar and coffee and chocolate. They work in fields and in brothels and in homes. They live all around us. The Oregon State Bar estimated that in 2006, slave traffickers made more money than Nike, Starbucks, and Microsoft combined. Slavery doesn't just exist in post-apocalyptic dystopias. And, as this book gracefully illustrates, it is perpetuated by both men and women. Young does a lovely job of showing the grotesqueness of feeding off violence and humiliation. She also shows the beauty of revolution. My only complaint about this book is that I think the second half loses steam. Spoiler alert? There are many excellent parts still, but it doesn't have the magic of the first half. It felt like the plot got heavy, and she sacrificed some of the story-telling to a checklist of what characters needed to die to fulfill y/a requirements. It didn't feel as careful as the first half. I think I would have preferred to leave more unanswered questions than to tie the plot up so neatly and formulaically. **End possible spoiler alert** I'm not sure I'm even complaining about that, though, as I still enjoyed it. If I had loved the second half as much as the first, I think this would have become my favorite book of all time. As it is, this book is still probably in my top 10. !!!!! _______ (I read this as an ARC on my Kindle that a friend gave me before I went to Zanzibar. Thank you, friend!!!) ...more | Notes are private!
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In most ways, this book was absolutely written for me. It is LOST + Miss Congeniality + Susan Faludi's Backlash. Sarah Palin and GW stand-ins make app
In most ways, this book was absolutely written for me. It is LOST + Miss Congeniality + Susan Faludi's Backlash. Sarah Palin and GW stand-ins make appearances to be generally villainous. It has lovely, lovely girls, lots of action, and some pretty hilarious jokes. Oh, and hilarious jokes in the footnotes. (Because why use endnotes, people? No need to be coy.) There is one about putting dolls on a pedestal that is my favorite joke in the book, if you want to know. The odd thing about the book is that it mixes slapstick detachment and satire with some pretty touching, beautiful moments. Sometimes that is jarring. Sometimes the girls are caricatures of social stereotypes, and other times they are breathtaking hope for the future. It was difficult for me to transition between the two, but in general, I really loved both moods of the story. So, this is not going to be a fair review. I'd say it's even going to be borderline hypocritical. I did a lot of sputtering about a feminist critique of Bridesmaids because WTF, people, does everything have to be the ideal feminist mantra? Sometimes a story about girls is just a story about girls. The tough thing about this book is that I feel like it was making some pretty purposeful feminist statements, so I think it opened itself up to more criticism because of that. It's not really fair that I feel that way, and I found the things it did really thought provoking, but the book's going to get some extra scrutiny over it. First, I love Mary Lou. I love love love her. Even though I will not get over my bitter disappointment about pirates this easily, I love her story. I think the writing is electric around her. I love her. I love the other girls as well, but Mary Lou is special. I think each girl in the story represents overcoming some kind of stigmatized female experience. Maybe Mary Lou's experience was more real to Ms. Bray because I found it absolutely vivid, where the others seemed researched. In the way that all the girls are reactions to misogyny (and by that I don't mean sexism from men. I like how Bray is clear about how women perpetuate misogyny, too.) the story made me a little sad. I always look for those beautiful female characters who are not reacting to anyone, but just being wonderful in who they are. I like seeing women who aren't putting on a show. I think it would be easy to compare these girls to Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, but I really think Elle remains herself throughout the movie. She doesn't have a moment where she turns on herself and says, "Oh wait. I am an idiot because I care about pretty things." That is who she is in the beginning and it saves the day in the end. I also love how Adina talks about girls looking to romantic relationships for self-definition. If someone desires us, it makes us desirable. It makes a relationship more than it is, and something it shouldn't be. I love how she identifies it and says that it is not how she wants to be. A few things that troubled me, though. This book starts with the premise that a girl would only do pageants because of a social or emotional disturbance. As the story unravels, the girls reveal, one by one, the social or emotional wounds that led them to be in the pageant. I don't know how I feel about that assumption. I like the idea that pageant girls can kick ass, too, but I don't love the idea that being pretty is the sign of psychological disturbance. To be fair, on a few occasions, Bray does very consciously make the point that it's okay to like being pretty, but the assumption is still there, underlying the whole book. The other premise that shows up in the book is that girls need an island to overcome what we're socially trained to be. That's more of a thesis of the book, as Penny very correctly points out. I'm not totally down with that idea either. It has this kind of hopelessness, like culture is so entrenched in unhealthy expectations for girls that there is no room for real girls in culture. That idea bums me out, and I don't think it's true. There is an Awakening quality to it that I hope strong female writers get past, and that I think some have gotten past. We are here! The world is for us too!! Don't give it up, girls, and retreat to your own private islands. I mean, I love The Awakening and I love The Yellow Wallpaper and The Bell Jar, but I think there also needs to be room for girls in culture. There need to be elbowing and kidney-kicks to people who try to tell girls that the world isn't for them. I don't think floating away to an island is the answer for girls becasue it is aka suicide, for those of you who are not up on your hopeless women writers. And that is not the answer. Anyway, back to the girls. I don't want to spoiler who all the girls are for you, because some of the reveals are pretty fun. None of them are surprising, but they are pretty fun. Unfortunately, I think that the way the girls end up is really important to the way I'm looking at the book, so I'm going to hide a little bit of my discussion of it. I'd really say go read it for yourself before you read my spoilers because what I'm saying will probably get into your brain in a way that will make your reading of it less fun. So, come back once you've read it, and we'll discuss. (view spoiler)[It was a little troubling to me that it seemed in the end like the girls mostly settled down, had two and a half kids, and then drove them to soccer practice. (I know only one really did the soccer thing, but I feel like that idea was there for a lot of them.) It was just a little anti-climactic. But, Adina and Taylor actually really made me sad. I am reading this book Motherless Daughters – because that is what I am – and it is a devastatingly poignant book for me. Those two girls are the motherless daughters in the book (Taylor from physical abandonment, and Adina from emotional abandonment), and it made me really sad that they were still so lost at the end of the book. I know there is a sort of power in the way they are lost, with Taylor as the jungle queen, and Adina refusing to sell her soul for emotional affirmation from men. Still, though, they made me sad. They were that stigma of the motherless daughter, the thing we can't talk about because it is too devastating. What if all of our mothers left us? It doesn't seem fair to me to think of those girls as being unable to emotionally connect with other people in a sane and mutually giving way. And Shanti and Nicole felt a little funny to me in that way, too. The book goes into how marginalizing the token ethnic friend thing is, but just because you're recognizing it doesn't mean you're not doing it yourself. It was just slightly uncomfortable. I mean, those girls were lovely, and I really like them, but I felt like, rather than be the sassy ethnic friend, they were only a reaction to the sassy ethnic friend. They didn't have much more dimension than that. Jennifer and Petra were a little better than that, I thought. They both had more humanity and specificity, even thought they were so purposely put in the book so that there would be one of each. I'm okay with that, though. Again, I liked the girls. (hide spoiler)] It's tough because there were a lot of characters in this book. It was difficult to give them all humanity and depth, I'm sure, and so some worked out better than others. There were a couple of points where, if I had put the book down for a little while, I would come back to it and forget who Miss New Mexico or Ohio were. There was a lot going on. Still, though, it was really fun and funny, and tear-jerky at a couple of points for me. It will definitely not be a five-star book for everyone, but I had a beautiful day out in the hammock reading it, so it is giving a halo to the experience. Also, as I guessed from the moment I first saw its cover, I am the intended audience for this book.["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]> ...more | Notes are private!
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I found this story positively delightful. It is true, what you hear, that it is very put-down-able, but that is something I appreciate about it. And i
I found this story positively delightful. It is true, what you hear, that it is very put-down-able, but that is something I appreciate about it. And it definitely picks up steam about halfway through. It is about a very sensible girl, who uses her good sense to clean up a family. I think it's a lot like Polyanna (I've only seen the Hayley Mills movie, but I imagine the book has to be pretty similar), but creepy instead of saccharine. It has this P.G. Wodehouse feel of calm irony in the face of disaster, but, then, also, a masculine hostility and danger that Ms. Flora Poste coolly navigates. I'm usually pretty good with dialect and colloquialisms, but I have to admit those held me up every once in a while here. There is also some . . . magical realism? Or really literal, punny, slap-stick? Or something that caught me off guard every once in a while. But, I thought Ms. Poste's bitchiness was pretty entertaining and respectable. She's sort of a lady Henry Higgins. I have this neighbor who is a real busybody. Cartoonish, almost. She's everywhere, taking pictures of your outdoor maintenance, stopping people from smoking on the HOA property, expressing concern about pipes and roofs and things like that. It's very off putting, in the same way I imagine management by Flora Poste would be off putting. But, there is also something truly entertaining about it. It's interesting to watch someone manage other people's lives. (As long as you can get out of management yourself, or as long as it works out conveniently to you.) And there is this great quote at the end of the book that I think is hilarious, "Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about." Ha! I don't identify with that at all, or think it's really true, but it's delightfully organized to think so. I also think that I benefited (finally!) from my lack of suspense. When people come to me and tell me that they have something they shouldn't tell me, I think, Holy heck, I hope they don't tell me. I think I remember the story that made me like this, and, trust me, you don't want to know it. I saw something nasty in the woodshed. The whole Cold Comfort Farm gang is running around the whole time dropping hints of scandals that Ms. Poste might want to know, and I felt totally fine knowing or not knowing what those were. The main point was watching our lady be sensible and efficient and ironically detached. This worked out well for me because (view spoiler)[you basically never find out what any of the scandals are or have any of the mysteries resolved (hide spoiler)]. That was pretty hilarious to me. I enjoyed it. I also appreciated how (view spoiler)[everyone found their calling or true love (hide spoiler)] because of Ms. Poste's solicitude. The whole story had this unlikely combination of irony, frank sensuality, slap-stick, creepiness, and Hollywood. I can see how it could get too built up, but I enjoyed just about every minute of it.["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]> ...more | Notes are private!
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When you want to take a story that someone else has told and make it your own, do it like this. If you want to write a story, recognize your own magic
When you want to take a story that someone else has told and make it your own, do it like this. If you want to write a story, recognize your own magic, your own style, and add it to the story you want to steal. If you want to write a story, do what Laini Taylor did, and absorb the story, wait until it has seeped into the interstitial places of your writing, and give it back to your reader. Make it beautiful and true. And the only way you can do that is by figuring out what to you is beauty and truth. So many writers try to figure out what made something beautiful to someone else. They try to say, what made the Trojan war beautiful to Homer? What made Harry Potter beautiful to J.K. Rowling? And they try to imitate that. They don't say, "What makes this story beautiful to me?" Well, Laini Taylor told us what makes these stories beautiful to her. So, I'm a little expansive tonight. I'm a little drunk. I'm not usually one of those drunks who goes around telling everyone she loves them. In fact, I've been told I can recite a pretty good story while drunk, even if I don't remember it a few months later. I usually don't remember who I told stories to anyway, drunk or not drunk, no offense. Anyway, I just want to give this book a hug and tell it I love it. I love you, book. Like, in the full, Wayne's World sense of the word. I love you, book. Damn, every time I write "book," I spell it "bood." Sorry. I love this book in a drunk, college-high-school kind of way. I love this book like, "Wait a second, what have we all be doing, standing around fighting over whether vampires are sparkly or not?" So, it turns out there are people out there writing real love stories and fairy tales. There are people reading great writing like Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, getting inspired by them, and then writing these wonderful tributes to them. I think, when anyone writes anything great, their ultimate hope has to be in some kind of legacy. They have to hope that their great writing will inspire something beautiful in the future, some kind of strength and inspiration. I think it is a tribute to the traditions that Rossetti, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism created that Taylor could create something as beautiful as this book. And then, hopefully her writings will inspire someone else, and the stories of goblins, hell, and eternal life will continue. It is like how Shakespeare reminded us that 13-year-olds falling in love doesn't always end for the best. And, look, that story has continued in tradition because of him. Hopefully we will all, likewise, remember not to eat goblin fruit because of Taylor, not to doubt our own curses or our own mortality. I had intended to talk about how some authors are natural with language, and how some authors know how to integrate a magical, traditional feeling with really modern writing. I don't really feel like talking about that now that I am writing this. Maybe I will have more to say about that in the morning. Anyway, it's not like Taylor tried to add a bunch of 'ye's to her writing, or like she tried to end everything with "e" like, unfortunately, some authors do, to give a sense of ye olde timmes. Taylor shows everything beautifully, and in doing so she shows how "modern times" are not removed from tradition and magick(e). I like how this book is not about kisses, is not about love. When I first picked it up I thought it would be an emo version of Gossip Girl, but it is not that. It is about evil kisses, lips shutting in silence, and kisses that are sense memory. I like how this book is about loyalty and strength. I like how it is about curses. This book is beautiful, and in true, drunken or non-drunken spirit, I love it. ...more | Notes are private!
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This was a slow burn, explosion, and slow burn again. As you can see from the book summary, it tells the story of the Homestead Strike against Carnegi
This was a slow burn, explosion, and slow burn again. As you can see from the book summary, it tells the story of the Homestead Strike against Carnegie Steel and the apocalypse that followed. My high school American history teacher did his master's thesis on the depression of 1893, so we all heard about it every once in a while, and I was not surprised about the bleak conditions in this story. At the same time, it really explored the cracks and details of the nightmare of life after the Industrial Revolution had dug its roots into the backs of the poor of the world. I am not a girl who loves historical fiction, to be honest, and some of the dialogue, like with any historical fiction, threw me off in this one. I'm going to get out my historical fiction critique early, and then tell you later why I did really like the story. In here, for example, Thomas had a lot of "Golly gee, Mom! Do I hafta?" type of dialogue – a Leave it to Beaver or Brady Bunch sort of feeling – that I questioned as to its accuracy to the period. The only thing I can think of to compare it to is Dickens, and I feel like his urchins always speak very properly, like small adults, or they do not speak at all. It was my impression that was the norm for children in the late part of the nineteenth century, but I could easily be wrong. And, honestly, I don't even really care, but I just wonder about it while I'm reading. Part of the point is that I don't just let myself go with this genre, but I'm constantly wondering about accuracy. If something obviously plays fast and loose with accuracy, I'm fine, and I can let it go, but if it aims for accuracy, I get all distracted. Still on the dialogue, in this book, and this is true for any historical fiction I have ever read, there was a lot of information to get across about the time period, and often people did it in dialogue. I always wonder about this because it assumes on some level that the characters within the story are as ignorant of the time period, or some aspect of the time period, as I am. For example, I feel like there is often something like, "That reminds me about how in France this year the most successful crop was the turnip, they made a lot of revenue from imports of spices, and there was an internal political struggle about whether men should wear leggings." And, I'm always sitting here, whispering to other characters, "Weren't we talking about what to have for dinner? Does this guy sound as douchey to you as he does to me?" But, no one in historical fiction thinks that guy is douchey. They're all like, "Oh, that was very informative! I was not aware of that." So I am alone in my distraction. And I get why that happens and that it seems like often part of the point of historical fiction, and what people like about it. You either have a character pass on info through dialogue, or you have a long exposition on the history from the narrator. I can see moving it to dialogue because otherwise it's more similar to reading historical non-fiction. It's just my own personal hang up and preference for reading history in the form of non-fiction, I think. So, that is my general struggle with historical fiction, and this was no exception, but this was still a lovely story. I thought the way the battle played out, where really it was the poor on both sides of the battle being manipulated by the rich, was really, really beautiful. And, oh man, I love Eirwen and Gwyn's family a lot. And their relationship was really vivid. They totally crushed me. Also, (view spoiler)[I thought it was so sweet how Emlyn and Sarah's relationship developed. I liked that it didn't totally rely on unspoken sexual tension throughout, but that it developed more naturally, and when they liked each other, they just did. Really pretty (hide spoiler)]. Particularly once this story got to the battle, I was so there with it. It was great. Ugh, and OMG, Carrie made me so mad! This was one of those experiences for me where there was a certain part, maybe between 20-30% and 50% on my Kindle, where I felt like a lot of the fat could be trimmed, especially from Emlyn's angst about the ministry – like, we get it kid: you don't want to be a preacher. Solution: just don't preach, but you don't have to yell at everybody about it! Flashbacks of the fifth Harry Potter book. But, then, at the end, I kind of wondered if most of that wasn't useful. It ultimately seemed like it made the slow, crushing burn at the end more valuable. In retrospect, I think I like the angst. Favorite parts: the horses, the battle (particularly the discussion about wealth and defense of property), and Emlyn's dreams. I was going to talk for a little while about how the second half of this book is such a beautiful illustration of why calculation of wealth needs to be based on more than just money, but also things like health, environment, and education. I guess I'll just leave it at that, though. This is why calculation of wealth needs to change. Particularly if you don't have my distractions about historical fiction, this is a really great read. I totally cried, and I am maybe a medium-frequency crier. ___________________ This book was provided to me by the publisher. Ceridwen's mom wrote it, and both Ceridwen and her mom are rad ladies. I tried to keep my head on my shoulders while I wrote this, but, you know, I imagine I am probably both too harsh and not harsh enough because of my personal affection for these folks. SIGH! So, I'm sorry for my unreliability all around!["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]> ...more | Notes are private!
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Yay!!! This was just what I wanted. This was like a cone of shaved ice on a hot day by the pool listening to a mix of one hit wonders. Yay!! I feel li
Yay!!! This was just what I wanted. This was like a cone of shaved ice on a hot day by the pool listening to a mix of one hit wonders. Yay!! I feel like I didn't realize it, but one of my goals for vacation was to stay up till three in the morning with a fun adventure, and this was just the thing. 3 a.m. read: check! There is such a deluge of young, energetic girl writers, writing women who struggle with their stoicism and strength and have supportive, emotional male counterparts, and I absolutely love it. It is like we hit this stride of girls saying, "Hey, sure, I could write a book and tell you how I see the world and what I want from it. Why not?!" And then publishers are publishing them! Wahoo! And, I know you are as little shocked by this as I am, but it turns out that girls do not always see ourselves as emotionally irrational, sensitive weaklings and men as muscly douchebags. And I really like the simple, somewhat symbolic way it looks at the complexity of emotional control and physical violence. I could not be more pleased. Goodbye stupid, boring old propaganda, and hello new, fun counter-propaganda! Huh, now that I've read a couple of other reviews of this, I have to say that I'm surprised by people's criticisms. It seems like many people have taken issue with the fact that Katsa doesn't like dresses and see that as some kind of condemnation of girls who do like dresses. I have to disagree. I love seeing awesome girls like Buffy and Elle Woods, and the girls in Snooki's book, who love shopping and pink and are also smart and capable. But, I don't think it is condemning of girls to show a girl who does not love shopping. While I have to say that Katsa's take on marriage is almost word for word how I see marriage, I don't really feel like Katsa, or any female protagonist, needs to be the definitive image of what all women should be. Some women think marriage sounds awesome, and others don't, and I don't feel like Katsa being wary of marriage because of her resistance to control is a judgment on any of the women in this book or in real life who are in favor of marriage. It kind of weirds me out to see the big reaction to that. I think it weirds me out because I do not care for shopping and marriage sounds awful to me, but most of my friends love shopping and/or are married, and I don't like to think me having a different opinion somehow undermines them. Anyway, I love seeing stories where girls are fun and strong and love shopping and marriage, and stories where they don't, because girls are not all the same about those things. It kind of bums me out to see this book criticized for ideas I feel represent my thoughts and preferences. On the down side, this story is admittedly somewhat derivative, but not in the creepy way that Cassandra Clare is derivative, mostly in a fun way. There is a definite X-Men feel to me about the premise of the story, I kept accidentally reading the heroine's name as Katniss, the trip over the mountains seemed so Aliens, and the ending is Jane Eyre. But, what awesome stories to borrow from!! Such a great mix. Also, this book knocks the Bechdel test out of the park. Out of the park! Katsa's interactions with all of the women were so beautiful and humble and natural. I loved them. I had a little bit of Bechdel concern early on because of Helda, but ultimately I think she is a great character, too. It feels natural for me for Katsa to face a lot of pressure to get married and have babies, even from really wonderful friends, because let's face it, you do. And including the character of Helda gave Katsa such a graceful opportunity to define her own life instead of listening to even someone she loved. Yay!! When I was in seventh grade, I would read books with a couple of friends of mine and say, "It was sooooooo romaaaaaaantic!" And then we would laugh for like fifteen minutes, the way you do in seventh grade. I can't really explain it now, but we thought it was hilarious to say that. Or, I did at least. Anyway, this book definitely would have made it on my soooooo romaaaaantic train, but it still presented a really healthy model, in my evaluation, of loyalty and love without control and ownership. Definite swoon. Plus, a guy with tattoos: how can I resist? Also, I loooooooved that Raffin was Katsa's sassy gay friend! Because girl needed one, and he was so great at it! And he totally was her sassy gay friend; don't tell me otherwise. But, what a subtle, wonderful way to show a loving, sweet gay couple without sort of exploiting them for PC points. I think, anyway. I mean, I know the book didn't dive fully into what it would mean for Raffin to have to get married, and it would have been great to be more explicit about it, but I still think it showed them really sweetly. While I have to say that I love Blood Red Road more than this, and I think this is somewhat comparable to that, I did still love this. I just think the writing in BRR is brilliant and Saba's voice is so unique. This was more straightforward, and probably an easier read for people who struggled with the dialect in BRR. But, mostly, YAY for all of the messages about women and girls defending ourselves and not bowing to control and emotional manipulation! So smart. I think this book could be to a seventh-grade girl audience what Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is to an adult male audience in terms of messages about confronting hatred of women. And I say again, YAAAAAY!!!! _________________________ I received a free copy of this book from the library. In return I promised to pay my late fees. ...more | Notes are private!
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I think an alternative title for this book could have been something like Women and Love or What Women Mean When They Talk About Love. Something like
I think an alternative title for this book could have been something like Women and Love or What Women Mean When They Talk About Love. Something like that. It was so beautiful in this delicate, fine-art way, and I was so surprised at this book's beauty, that I feel totally inadequate in trying to describe my reaction to it. It is that type of beauty I feel when I think about the improbability of our bodies being alive or of Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel or of microscopic images of snowflakes. There is no way the universe could conspire so delicately for those things to work in such a way that their beauty is not so improbable as to be obscenely contrived, but somehow it does work. It is beautiful. And now that I've compared this book to the Sistine Chapel, there is no way anyone could go into it liking it. It's like that time this douchey guy told me that Bright Eyes is the new Bob Dylan. I mean, Bright Eyes is not great anyway – talk about being in love with your own mysterious allure – but, compared to Bob Dylan, Mr. Eyes is just embarrassing. So, here I am ruining this book for you like that. At the same time, after reading this, I understood a lot more why someone would write a book like Olive Kitteridge, using multiple, somewhat unrelated, perspectives strung together by a common theme. While that one just seemed ridiculous, this one soared for me, and I can see how, as an author, you could want to aim for this kind of delicacy in weaving together stories. I listened to this on audio, and it was like hearing someone describe every way a woman's love can be beautiful and painful, harsh and delicate. Some books will make me cry, but this book brought me to tears, which is the same thing but more elegant because of this story's elegance. The reader's voice was lovely, and the only fault with listening to this on audio was that there was so much I wanted to hear and follow that I know I missed a lot. I usually choose audio books based on the idea that it won't matter if I space out during the book (because I space out a lot while I'm walking to work and listening to them), so I normally choose a book that I've read before or something I don't think I'll love that much. I was surprised at how much I loved this one and how much I felt I missed by listening to the audio. It is not a difficult book, but it definitely contains subtlety and passages that I would probably have read over again if I were reading it on the page. This is not a very exciting review, I think, because it doesn't contain an exciting story. I have the most wonderful job in the world right now, at which the most amazing things happen, but I can't talk about it on the internet. And, no, my job is not Fight Club. If I could, I would tell you about how this has probably been the best year of my life so far, and about all of its beauty and fullness, and about how pain is as much a part of the beauty as comfort or wonder are. And I would tell you about the women I have seen and the ways they are with the love in their lives. But, instead, I will just be vague, and say that this book resonated with me both in the year I have had and in the life I have had. It talked about the right things and in the right way. And, of course, it was about a book, which I imagine is the universal symbol of love. ...more | Notes are private!
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I have an EV-trained Lv. 100 Altaria up for trade
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Make your porch welcoming with beautiful hanging baskets
Hanging baskets are some of the easiest and prettiest ways to do your gardening at home. The plants are self-contained and don't have to be planted or nurtured from seedlings. Hanging planters also add color and beauty up high, in places that might not naturally feature beautiful flowers, ferns and vines. Plus, hanging gardens are an easy solution for people with small yards, balconies or concrete patios who still want a beautiful garden despite limitations on space.
When you choose your hanging plants, you will need to select them based on your space dimensions and color scheme. If you have a small space, that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't have a large hanging planter, but it may mean that you will have to have fewer baskets so that all of your plants can fit. Make sure that you and your guests will still be able to walk underneath or between any hanging planters so that no one has to walk around with dirt in his or her hair. Once you have decided on plant sizing and spacing, then determine what type of plants you would like to hang. Hardy plants do best in limited growth space, so greens such as ferns are a great starter plant for your hanging garden. Flowers can be selected based on color, aromatic appeal or what types of wildlife may be drawn to your porch. You can specifically select flowers that attract butterflies, hummingbirds and yes, even bees.
Caring for your hanging plants should be relatively easy. Since these plants are hardy, you should be able to care for them with regular watering and maybe a little plant food. Be sure to check the stake for care instructions. Some potted plants may come with nutrient-enriched soil that doesn't require extra fertilizer or plant food. Regularly check for dead leaves, shoots or flower heads so that you can clear out the old growth to make way for the new.
At the end of the season, bring your plants inside to protect them from the elements, or clean out the pots to make way for next year's hanging plants. As always, keep an eye on weather reports to make sure that your plants are protected from inclement weather. Since many hanging plants are more exposed than garden plants, they may need to be moved to a safe place, which should be easy if you keep a step ladder nearby.
Fertilizer, step ladders, hanging hooks and potted plants can all be found at Sears, your one-stop shop for all of your gardening needs. A hanging basket display will be a piece of cake when you opt for quality brands at affordable prices. Come in to select from a great variety of floral and plants to choose the right hanging baskets for your outdoor living space.


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There are two schools of thought when it comes to handling achievements in MMOs. The first is to keep it mostly private, the second is to herald it to the world entire. Private achievements are great ways to pat the player on the back while keeping him or her modest. Not everyone likes achievement spam, anyway.
Yet I've come to prefer games that do broadcast achievements guild-wide. Why? Because not all of us are so attention-seeking that we constantly write about what we're doing... but if the game's doing that for us, oh well. It's not me being egotistical, it's the game's doing. But if you happen to notice what I'm doing? So much the better.
I genuinely like seeing what my guildies are up to as well. It feels like we do come together for the typical "grats" after an achievement notice, or even the rare "holy crap, that's awesome!" for significant milestones. Of course, sometimes these games can get silly with the number of trivial achievements, so it can hurt the legitimacy of the real ones.
What do you think? Do you like having achievements broadcast guild-wide, or would you prefer it kept quiet (or even turned off)?
Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!
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