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    Bonjour

    in Introductions

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    , oui I have read Mists of Avalon, much it frightened me, but it captured the true pagan activities that do not touch my heart. And Arthur's sister to me was perhaps quite mad and savage non? But her life was full of sorrows.

    And so much treachery. But the title is perfect oui. I was worn out at the end and cried much.:lol:

     

    Oh yes, it is an intense book. I shed quite a few tears myself.

    Hi all

    in Introductions

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    Again, I thank you all for your very kind welcome and thanks Liz for linking me :-)

     

    Gil

     

    You're very welcome, Gil. :lol: I knew you'd like it here...and I got to know the beautiful story of your three weddings! :D

    Liz's 2009 Reading Lists

    in Past Book Logs

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    I just finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Here's my review:

     

     

    The Virgin Suicides is a beautiful book - poignant, depressing, gut-wrenching, beautiful. Jeffrey Eugenides, by using the unusual first person plural for narration, makes us feel as though we are one of the narrators who watched the Lisbon girls, who tried to understand them but never could, who mourned their suicides into adulthood, still wishing there could have been a connection between us and the Lisbon girls, that somehow we may have been able to stop the girls from killing themselves.

     

    For anyone looking for a moral to this story, for a lesson learned by the suicides of the Lisbon sisters, there is none. The Virgin Suicides is not a morality tale. It's about a tragic, bittersweet period in several teenagers lives. Why did the Lisbon sisters commit suicide? Was it their stifling mother and her religious fanaticism? Was it the times, the mid '70s suburbia fa

    Bonjour

    in Introductions

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    Have you read The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Genevieve? It's the Arthurian legend sen through the eyes of the women. It's one of my favorite books.

    To rhyme or not to rhyme...?

    in Poetry, Plays & Short Stories

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    Good question, Guilia. Hmmm...I like either one, although my favorite poems are all rhyming ones. When it comes to poems that don't rhyme, they have to be very well written and thought out. I think there's a bigger temptation for poets who don't rhyme to get carried away with the idea of "stream of conciousness" writing, which often turns affected in the hands of an untalented poet.

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