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Are You My Mother?

by Alison Bechdel

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Jude said: "I started reading this at Mac's Backs, also skipped around, and read it later after the Dotter humored my desire that it be a gift from her.

The reviews are intriguing- so much resistance and dismay at how different this is from the first volume of he...more "

Mar 22, 2013 09:41am · see review

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Jude rated a book 5 of 5 stars Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I started reading this at Mac's Backs, also skipped around, and read it later after the Dotter humored my desire that it be a gift from her. The reviews are intriguing- so much resistance and dismay at how different this is from the first volume of he...more
Mar 22, 2013 09:41am · see review
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Jude rated a book 5 of 5 stars Right Wing Women: The Politics Of Domesticated Females by Andrea Dworkin recommended to Jude by: Books of Athena Bookstore read in January, 1985	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
i am 64 - this book brought my mother's generation to me in compassionate and world-view-changing ways back when it first came out. Dworkin's respectful and insightful take on the innately sexual politics of conservative women has proved prescient an...more
Jan 10, 2013 08:57am · see review
Jude rated a book 5 of 5 stars October by Louise Glück recommended for: the grieving celebrants of life read in January, 2004	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
...the light of autumn: you will not be spared. In a way, this is where i went after Mary Oliver. Gluck is in the natural and physical world too. Her vision is brilliant, dark, fearless. Nature becomes not simply a lover humanity has betrayed, but a m...more
Nov 27, 2012 08:22am · see review
Jude rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Princess Bride by William Goldman read in January, 1977	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
given the stature of both the book and the film, i will add only personal notes: 1) i read this the year the paperback came out, sent in for the missing chapter and got it. 2) i quarreled with the casting of the Wesley in the film - his mouth irritated...more
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Jude rated a book 5 of 5 stars Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jude rated a book 5 of 5 stars Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel read in November, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jude made a comment on their review of Mickelsson's Ghosts "October Light has one of my favorite opening scenes of all time - and i don't remember much any more ;->"
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Jude made a comment on Paul's review of 100 Must-read Classic Novels "yeah - i read one PF and it must have been well-timed cause i fell in love. I dint ever follow through with more though - i think she's like Anita Bro...more "
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“Love is a myth.'
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.'
'What?'
'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

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“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational
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