The popular Unbuttoned Yet Tucked In monthly series, reviewing romance novels chosen by the cover alone.
The Food Series, an irregular series of cookbook reviews from a decided non-cooker.
The Presidential Series, an irregular series following my quest to read biographies of all the American presidents in order of their presidencies.
The forthcoming Travel Guide series, comparative reviews of guide books for specific locations.
2009 Books
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Washington Park and/or Daisy Miller by Henry James Emily Dickinson Poetry The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka something by D.H. Lawrence Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Jonathan Strange and Dr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke
75 Books Every Woman Should Read from Jezebel Magazine
The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton White Teeth, Zadie Smith The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion Excellent Women, Barbara Pym The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri Beloved, Toni Morrison Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert Like Life, Lorrie Moore Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O'Connor The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Fear of Flying, Erica Jong Earthly Paradise, Colette Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt Property, Valerie Martin Middlemarch, George Eliot Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir Runaway, Alice Munro The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill The Liars' Club, Mary Karr I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison The Secret History, Donna Tartt The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker The Group, Mary McCarthy Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck Fun Home, Alison Bechdel Three Junes, Julia Glass Vindication on the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft Sophie's Choice, William Styron Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin The Red Tent, Anita Diamant The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn My Antonia, Willa Cather Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West Spending, Mary Gordon The Lover, Marguerite Duras The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen Nightwood, Djuna Barnes Three Lives, Gertrude Stein Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith Possession, A.S. Byatt
I had to spend some time last night watching MJ videos too. I remember us kids trying to do the moonwalk on the playground. Mind you, this was also at the height of moonBOOTS. Frightening.
Man, I think I spent the entire evening watching his greatest videos, and I think I landed on "Smooth Criminal" as my favorite. The deliberate, slow dance moves, that lean intensity throughout...It's so easy to forget how genious he was back when he was on and not yet so disturbed.
I missed the moonboots. But MJ himself wears a pair of SEQUINNED moonboots in "Rock With Me."
You have to wonder which came first, the idea for the video or the song.
What a dancer. But I did lose a lot of interest in watching him dance when the masturbation became such a big part of it. It was so distracting from the artistry.
Jessica, I don't think I'd seen this one since about 1983 before finding it on YouTube. It's a strange pick for certain, but it is my favorite MJ video. I love how the dance in this one is just slow and deliberate, just genius. Heloise, I know what you mean with the crotch grabbing - it doesn't seem like that happened so much in the Thriller years (although someone can correct me if I'm wrong.) He does have liquid hips, though, and as a dancer wannabe, he's just so amazing to watch.
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I gotcher plotline right here!
(sorry.)
I had to spend some time last night watching MJ videos too. I remember us kids trying to do the moonwalk on the playground. Mind you, this was also at the height of moonBOOTS. Frightening.
Man, I think I spent the entire evening watching his greatest videos, and I think I landed on "Smooth Criminal" as my favorite. The deliberate, slow dance moves, that lean intensity throughout...It's so easy to forget how genious he was back when he was on and not yet so disturbed.
I missed the moonboots. But MJ himself wears a pair of SEQUINNED moonboots in "Rock With Me."
Sequined moonboots. Where can I get me some?
Sheer genius! I have not seen this in ages...wow! I'm pretty sure I will attempt one of his dance moves sometime today..hee hee!
You have to wonder which came first, the idea for the video or the song.
What a dancer. But I did lose a lot of interest in watching him dance when the masturbation became such a big part of it. It was so distracting from the artistry.
Jessica, I don't think I'd seen this one since about 1983 before finding it on YouTube. It's a strange pick for certain, but it is my favorite MJ video. I love how the dance in this one is just slow and deliberate, just genius. Heloise, I know what you mean with the crotch grabbing - it doesn't seem like that happened so much in the Thriller years (although someone can correct me if I'm wrong.) He does have liquid hips, though, and as a dancer wannabe, he's just so amazing to watch.
Daphne...Goodwill?
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