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I sure hope my interview for a library position went well cause LIBRARY. BEING PAID TO HELP A LIBRARY DO ITS WONDERFUL WORK. I don't care if it's minimum wage, I want it ; ;

Time to hyperdrive through the rest of this into over and done and onto something else already.

Now it seemed the village no longer existed, but perhaps the hunter was still roaming through the woods.

Pride and phobia, it's a quagmire. If there were no dirt, there would be no reason for pride. If we had no pride, we'd just walk around with our feet in the mud. One requires the other. That's what a human being such as myself needs to survive.

Gonna test drive this four books at one time business with my first UCLA library book of 2015.

Ugggh. Atwood, look. I'm a shipper. Give me a narrative with at least two well developed characters and two hundred pages later (at most) you'll find me happily shipping away. Now, do you know what happens when at least two of the male characters are superbly formed and all the women are just, y'know. Shrubbery? Not the heterosexual agenda advertised on this book's back cover, I can tell you that much.

My university has five copies of The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China and none of them are checked out. DON'T WORRY YOU LOVELY LONELY BOOKS. I'LL APPRECIATE YOU.

I don't have to wait till classes start to check out university library bookssssss ahhhhhh happy daaaaaaays :D

This certainly went from noir to sprawling social indictment à la Les Mis right quick. I'm not even sure it was noir in the first place. What do you call a murder mystery where all the leading roles are played by women and the psychology spans multiple countries and continents? Crime and Punishment comes to mind, but that's too small.

If someone hasn't created a real version of the Blood and Roses game, I may need to.

Classes for which I can add books on Goodreads are the best classes.

Why should a person who loved me think he should be entitled to control my body? If love was that restricting, I was happy to live without it.

It's weird being in a place you never thought you'd be able to return to.

Time to start up that Ye Olde What Does The University Library Have That My Library Doesn't again *___*

C'moooon, Atwood. One hit and two strikes makes an author a dull choice. Show me you're more than a brand name people like to throw around.

Saraswati Bai Rajwade (b. 1913, Kannada) - " Saraswati Bai Rajwade passed her school-leaving examination when she was twenty-five, ten years after her first writings had appeared in print...Her first story, "Nanna Anjana"...appeared in 1929. Since then she has written seventy short stories and several more articles and reviews, as well as poems and plays."

Shyamala Devi (1910-1943, Kannada) - "The public career of this short story writer, journalist, activist in the All India Women's Conference, member of the Dharwar Municipal Council, and secretary of a children's association lasted barely a decade...The "Mother and Child" section...was designed for the discussion of the social and political rights of women and their aspirations to progress."

Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1987, Malayalam) - "The story we have translated was written in 1938 and is based on a historical figure, Kuriyedathu Tatri (1885-?), whose name has become in Namboodiri society a symbol for the anger of the wronged woman...All the documents relating to the trial have been destroyed by her husband's family."

Ashapurna Debi (b. 1909, Bengali) - "Ashapurna Debi is perhaps the most prolific and popular of contemporary writers in Bengali. In a writing career that now spans a half century—her first story was published in 1936, though she had been writing since she was thirteen—she has published 150 novels and a large number of short stories and poems, many of which have been collected into books."

Kamla Chaudhry (b. 1908, Hindi) - "Throughout the 1930s and 1940s while she was actively involved in nationalist politics, Kamla Chaudhry was writing with a distinctive feminist edge on a range of themes....From 1947 to 1952, she served on the committee that drew up the Constitution of India and, in the late seventies, was elected a member of the Lok Sabha."

Kuntala Kumari Sabat (1908-1938, Oriya) - "Many people regard Kuntala Kumari, the first modern woman poet in Oriya, as Oriya's first feminist writer...She wrote several novels; best known among them are Kalibohu...Naa Tundi...and Parasmani...She was chairperson of the All India Women's Conference in 1931.

Mahadevi Varma (1907-1987, Hindi) - "Poet, painter, feminist, nationalist, and philosopher, Mahadevi Varma was easily one of the most distinguished and influential figures in modern India. She is best known in literary circles as one of the Big Four in the Chhayavad movement in Hindi poetry and as a writer of brilliant, chiseled prose sketches and essays."

Darisi Annapurnamma (1907-1931, Telegu) - "Even as a child she showed interest in philosophy and mastered Telegu, English, and Sanskrit....She was one of the representatives from Andhra at the 1929 All India Women's Conference, and one of the few women who participated in the famous Salt Satyagraha led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930."

Geeta Sane (b. 1907, Marathi) - "This significant but relatively unknown feminist writer...focuses on the contradictions that arose for women in the first decades of this century as they reached out for the new education and the promises it made...Her sense of how feminist issues are related to other social and political questions of the time sets her work apart.

Children do not get to choose their mothers.

Coming across author profiles you're gunning to spruce up and finding out they were already spruced up by you:

"I have no memory of this place."

We know perfectly well that it is this security of theirs that makes us cry out at night.

The only difference between the "difficulty" of Bloomsbury and the graffiti of today lies in their respective levels of revolution and spite.

"The most horrid thing about you," continued Mrs. Copperfield, "is that you're just as grouchy now that you know your bill will be paid as you were before. You were mean and worried then and you're mean and worried now. The expression on your face hasn't changed one bit. It's a dangerous man who reacts more or less the same way to good news or bad news."

You know you've recovered from your cold when you wake up and your immediate first thought is not of a sore throat or cough but panic about Life and Everything. Gotta love the human condition.