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[cleolinda]

Quick clarification on the Virginia story: I read the whole spiel at Daily Kos, and apparently what they're trying to do is target women who abandon babies in dumpsters. The problem is that the PROPOSED LAW does not target them. It's like saying that if anyone, anywhere, dies for any reason (heart attack? well-documented terminal illness? old age?), it's got to be reported to the homicide squad. If they want to target baby-dumping, they need to DO THAT, rather than force every single woman who ever miscarries at any stage of gestation, anywhere, to account for herself. You know, with words like "abandoning" and "receptacles not intended for babies, such as dumpsters, or the occasional birdbath."

Also, I just got back from class, and the professor raffled off her "desk copies" of our texts by having us choose a number between 1 and 100. Guess who won a brand new copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin? WHEE.

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[girlalmighty]

I promise not to report you to the NAACP. ;) Anyway, I don't yet know what we're required to read from that class aside from Steinbeck and Dickinson and Twain. I like Twain well enough and I love Emily Dickinson, and I suppose I may as well give Steinbeck a chance. It's the Faulkner I'm not looking forward to. We read The Sound and the Fury for AP English senior year. Oh. My. Goodness. I liked the characters; I wanted to know what happened to the characters; I had no idea what was going on period. Stream-of-consciousness is all well and good, but . . . that hurt my brain.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

Ok- Steinbeck has a great deal of love in my heart; The first "adult" books I was assigned in the 6th grade were the Red Pony and The Pearl-I highly reccomend them BOTH. Also enjoyed Of Mice and Men it is the only work that I've ever seen make my father cry, but I loathe The Grapes of Wrath for the sheer fact that it is so verbose.

Also read The Sound and the Fury for AP-had the same feelings. I consider myself well read, but I JUST NOW started reading Catch-22 for the first time and I swear I have never taken this long to read a book... 6 days thus far and I'm only half way through. The craziness-she hurts my brain.

[elbales]

Ever tried The Light and the Dark? I was so lost. :P (Or--even better--Sons and Lovers!)

I don't remember a damned thing about either book.