This time I'm doing We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
Ooooh! Great book, and excellent for discussion. I read it on my honeymoon in New Orleans while JZ and I were sitting around drinking cocktails off our bedroom balcony.
Merricat is such an excellent protogoth.
Trudy, it's good to see you back, here.
Julia and Chris think Ellie is incredibly beautiful (which she is), but Ben doesn't talk like that about babies (they're all 'cute'). Everybody loves Matilda. I know I'm forgetting more babies. I pretty much show them everyone's babies. I should never list names. Noah and Grace are foremost in my mind because they get daily mentions from the kids.
The best part about the Buffista Baby Playgroup would be the other parents would be cool.
Oh, yeah.
Like the commercial, where the mothers sit around snacking while the babies snooze in their carriers ... only with more booze and corsets.
Shirley Jackson, in many ways, was an excellent protogoth. She's certainly a gothmother.
GC's booktalking a book about a girl who kills her family to girls in juvie!
How tall is Ms Matilda? Says she who ought to Get Cracking and Mail the Box Already.
How tall is Ms Matilda? Says she who ought to Get Cracking and Mail the Box Already.
Most of her growing has been filling out rather than up. So she's still fairly wee. I don't have an actual measurement, but her sitting up in the grocery cart is still a little surprising to onlookers because she appears to be about half her actual age.
Thanks, Cindy, its good to be back.
Gloom, its hard not to know. What you DO know is that, well, when she was in prison you visited her...
(which, whether an individual is into Jesus or not, is a fine thing for a human being to do. And it was good for her spirit -- not merely to be unforgotten, but for her life to be touched by you)
apropos of nothing whatsoever, scary slug sex.
I just got up. Ugh. Two days in a row of sleeping past noon. And today I missed a doctor's appointment. Must call and grovel, since I think my insurance won't pay for this if I don't show up, and I'm pretty sure they charge if you don't show up.
I'm a little mad at me right now.
Appropos of another nothing:
Two chatbots talk to each other
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