Anyone into Juve stuff?
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Just read a GREAT Juve book! "The naked mole-rat letters." It reminded me about some things about empathy and "going outside oneself" that I've forgotten.
It's also about lying and the "tangled web we weave," secrets, family, grieving, and opening up to "outsiders." Perhaps it's mostly about opening ones heart up to relationships.
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It's frickin' beautiful!
dotd, <3 ! Your smiley there matches your avatar. I didn't get through "Island of Blue Dolphins" yet. I still intend to though. Sometime.
It's also about lying and the "tangled web we weave," secrets, family, grieving, and opening up to "outsiders." Perhaps it's mostly about opening ones heart up to relationships.
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Spoiler
Girl who's lost her mom years ago (Frankie) shares a family e-mail account with her dad. Her dad starts dating a zookeeper lady on a business trip, and Frankie sees an e-mail from the lady. Frankie flips out... and tries to hijack the relationship with forged e-mails. The lady responds to her in honest, caring and clever ways. At the same time, Frankie is very freaked out because of something out of her control, and she starts lying and getting into trouble at school.
dotd, <3 ! Your smiley there matches your avatar. I didn't get through "Island of Blue Dolphins" yet. I still intend to though. Sometime.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"