Bookworm Mania

[miss_yt]

Finished David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day and Anita Diamant's The Red Tent since I started the former about noon on Sunday. I haven't been reading for pleasure lately as much as I used to, and I was quite happy to get two books in, although I really should have been working.

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[pinesandmaples]

See?
This is what a good entry about a book would be.
Boy, I'm nosy. I don't really care that someone read a book...I care more about what that book did to them. Since The Red Tent was the book that got me into free-flow and seriously made me so amazinly happy about my period, I'm always interested in seeing who else it pushes into alternative stuffs.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

One odd thing that came to mind when I read this book was something one of my anthro professors said. She was talking about female seclusion during menstruation in Native American cultures. I thought the whole idea was barbaric and cruel, but she said that the secluded women probably welcomed the time off and the chance to socialize.

Of course, we don't get time off for having a time of the month, and in my case at least the whole affair is painful, messy and inconvenient. There's no fun to be had from it.

Of course, there are no men saying that my mentrual blood will blight the crops, cause death curses or make them impotent either, so I don't really have reason to complain.