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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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§ ita § - Sep 18, 2012 6:54:05 pm PDT #19739 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I did a massive amount of reading this week.I hope I can maintain a shred of that momentum. Finished Development Hell, Mindy Kaling's book, and The Bluest Eye. And dug properly into guards! Guards! My biggest disappointment is with Mindy. I wanted to find a new imaginary best girl friend ever out of this one. She is too stiff for me to lose my self in her words. Her naughtiness is not mine. And her judginess does not align with my judge and jury in the least.

Pfft. I still hope for the best for her show.

le nubian - Sep 18, 2012 6:58:59 pm PDT #19740 of 28344
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I stopped following her twitter feed because her rhythms were odd.

javachik - Sep 18, 2012 7:08:37 pm PDT #19741 of 28344
Our wings are not tired.

Have you guys listened to her WTF Podcast with Marc Maron? She's an interesting person.

Pix - Sep 18, 2012 7:31:05 pm PDT #19742 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.

People! Has anyone else read Daniel O'Malley's book The Rook? I'm not even halfway through and loving it. Such a great read!

Strix - Sep 18, 2012 9:54:35 pm PDT #19743 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

What did you think of The Bluest Eye, ita ! It was Morrison's first novel, and I loved teaching it. Spurred SUCH great conversations, papers and projects in my students. But I adore Beloved more and read it once a year. The LANGUAGE! So wonderful! It's such a dense, gripping, HARD book.

erikaj - Sep 19, 2012 5:07:19 am PDT #19744 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!

She's a little weird, but I liked her book(So girly, though, it's not like I related to most of it. Except being a comedy geek who hung out with her parents in high school.That was more like me than what most people say about high school. )Including, I suppose, Joss' "high school hell' thing.) The Bluest Eye is still the Toni Morrison book I like best. It's so much more simple and unvarnished than the things she's written since.

§ ita § - Sep 19, 2012 5:07:43 am PDT #19745 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There were times, Strix, where I felt an English teacher reading over my shoulder, and wanting me to compare and contrast uses of imagery, etc.

Sometimes I get mad at her because I don't think she needs to be that confusing, and she bounces around viewpoints from chapter to chapter here like nobody's business. I really like the story. I even like *most* of the ways she chose tot ell it. But a couple of them are to twee for me, and get in the way of the emotion and the social commentary.

Strix - Sep 19, 2012 9:07:44 am PDT #19746 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

ita ! oh, I get you...the imagery can be a little heavy-handed, but it was her first novel, so I cut her some slack. And my freshmen needed some obvious imagery, so...

Did I ever mention that at my last high school, 95% Black students, that I was NOT ALLOWED to teach Beloved to my SENIORS because it was too "sexual?" By a Black woman superintendent who had NEVER READ IT? Who thought Native Son was just PEACHY to teach to freshman (masturbation, rape, murder?)

Yeah, still fuming... No wonder I quit. I was...flabbergasted.

Pix - Sep 19, 2012 12:32:31 pm PDT #19747 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.

I love teaching Bluest Eye. I've taught four Morrison novels, but none teach as well as that one, IMO.

Strix - Sep 19, 2012 8:07:40 pm PDT #19748 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Beloved would have been a challenge to teach, I admit.I found it challenging in sections first go-round, and I read it as a junior in college. And I was coming off of thousands of books and was a rather sophisticated reader! But despite the complexity of sections, it was also very accessible in many parts.

Damn, where's my copy? (I can't read Beloved when it's summer; dunno why, it's just a thing.)

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