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First time reading Mishima and I'm hooked. There is truly some lovely and lyrical writing in this book.

It's truly embarrassing that I've gone this long without reading any Anais Nin...

I've highlighted so many lines in this that I know I'm going to have to get a physical copy sometime soon. Homegirl is serving truth in every line.

"She looked at her watch, more often, and that it was always earlier than she had thought it would be. When she was young, it had always been later."

"The other Elizabeth Taylor" is one of my prose queens. She never wastes a word. Seeing if this one lives up to/surpasses 'Angel'.

"I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this."

If someone could trim the fat of some of this and concoct a script, this would make an excellent TV series...a woman pugilist from the wrong side of the tracks befriends the shut-in wife of a scheming, gambling scoundrel who has bisexuals for guy friends? Yeah, I'd binge watch.

I'm in an odd place w/ this, I'm captivated by the writing, and due to that, I can't look away, even though I'm...disturbed.

Isn't that a great cover? What's inside is even better.

Brisk n' brittle '70s French noir...2016 is def. the year where I have surprised myself with my reading choices.

Had no idea that Lois Duncan died this year, so I'm reading this in tribute.

Feels like a cousin to 'Foxfire', just that this time some '70s (radical) feminism is on the menu.

Difficult 2 read. I see why Prince disliked music journalists, we are an 'over-reaching' bunch, lol. I do appreciate the chapters about Prince's beginnings, there was new info 4 me there.

But how dare he calls "I Would Die 4 U" the weakest track on 'Purple Rain'...that's my favorite!

Enjoying this collection so far. Love Langston's humor and the way he twists the knife for the finale.

Have liked every story so far, esp. "Slave On The Block", "Home", and "The Blues I'm Playing". Good sign.

Not even done yet, but I'm blown away. I think this is the best love story I've ever read...

"Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fighting. Or I thought, but I am happy. And he loves me. I am safe."

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"I simply wondered about the dead because these days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine."

Had to read some more Baldwin.

"I will see Giovanni again, as he was that night, so vivid, so winning, all of the light of that gloomy tunnel trapped around his head"

1992 is no different from 2016...

I'm so nerdy over all the symbolism and writing in this...

"His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat"

"His strange, heavy, almost waxen face was not lined by experience, rather experience seemed to have washed it perfectly smooth, like a stone on a beach whose fissures had been eroded by successive tides" ["The Bloody Chamber"]

"To cut anyone out of the psyche is to maim the personality; to suppress any part of the personality is to maim the soul"

The essays about the reactions to 'The Color Purple' are some riveting reading. Walker shuts down the critics so beautifully.