Posted in Reading on Jan 29th, 2010
I know there are women out there who love being pregnant. They find it a generative, fecund, creative, feminine, beautiful experience.
I am not one of those women.
In my humble opinion, pregnancy bites. Even an easy pregnancy like mine bites. The nausea, the heartburn, the nasty taste in your mouth, the chronic impaction, the [...]
Posted in Reading on Jul 14th, 2009
In my last post, I mentioned two literary novels that I’d read on my vacation and found…uninspiring. The second of these books was the better of the two, largely because it had an amazing ending.
That richly satisfying ending transfigured the whole rest of the book, which I’d found a bit of a slog while I [...]
Posted in Reading on Jul 10th, 2009
I read two novels on my vacation at Ross Lake that would be considered “literary.” I feel like an ignorant rube, an uncultured, unrefined, uneducated boor: I don’t really like literary novels. I find them, ahem, boring. Or at least, I found these two boring. If I hadn’t been stranded in the middle of nowhere [...]