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toastykittenThe library had a $5 bag sale. This is like giving me keys to the candy store!
The books:
Tuff, a Novel - Paul Beatty
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries-What Am I Doing in the Pits? - Erma Bombeck
Life After God - Douglas Coupland
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen (Ok, normally I don't read Oprah books, but I want to see what the big deal is about. Also, I think he was stupid for dissing Oprah.)
Shampoo Planet - Douglas Coupland
Legacies, A Chinese Mosaic - Bette Bao Lord
Aurora: Beyond Equality (Amazing Tales of the Ultimate Sexual Revolution) - Edited by Vonda N. McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson (Looks like feminist science fiction short stories.)
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Vox: A Novel - Nicholson Baker (I think I was supposed to read this for one of my English classes and then I totally forgot about it. I think it is about phone sex.)
Alarms & Diversions - James Thurber
N.P. - Banana Yoshimoto
The Great American Bathroom Book II (I thought this was going to be one of those random trivia ones. Instead, it's summaries of classic novels and works, in which they include Ramona the Pest. I really should look closer.)
The Urban Muse: Stories on the American City - Edited by Ilan Stavans (Stories by Paul Auster, James Baldwin, John Cheever, Zora Neale Hurston, etc.)
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis ("The second book in a celebrated space trilogy which begins in Out of the Silent Planet and is concluded in That Hideous Strength." I couldn't find the others.)
The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber
A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin
The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. LeGuin
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin
Whisper of Death - Christopher Pike (I loved this book in fifth grade.)
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (I've never read this before.)
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan (Even though I consider myself feminist, I've never read any of the actual literature. So I figured I should start.)
Women and Child Care in China: A Firsthand Report - Ruth Sidel (This one I got because it was too bizarre. The back reads, "This firsthand report on the radically changing attitudes toward women and child rearing in today's China has dramatic implications for our own society...The book that resulted from their visit focuses on the amazingly rapid liberation of Chinese women from the "bitter past," when prostitution and venereal disease were rampant, marriages were made at an early age, and wives were virtually enslaved to their mothers-in-law. Now, Mrs. Sidel reporst, Chinese women are encouraged to take an active part in the life of the nation-and to help them do so, vast programs are providing birth-control information, pre-natal assistance, maternity leaves, and child care facilities." This book was first published in 1972. It reads like total fantasy to me right now.)
ManifestA: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future - Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (One of those pop-culture feminist books. I just felt like it.)
25 books. Awesome.
The books:
Tuff, a Novel - Paul Beatty
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries-What Am I Doing in the Pits? - Erma Bombeck
Life After God - Douglas Coupland
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen (Ok, normally I don't read Oprah books, but I want to see what the big deal is about. Also, I think he was stupid for dissing Oprah.)
Shampoo Planet - Douglas Coupland
Legacies, A Chinese Mosaic - Bette Bao Lord
Aurora: Beyond Equality (Amazing Tales of the Ultimate Sexual Revolution) - Edited by Vonda N. McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson (Looks like feminist science fiction short stories.)
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Vox: A Novel - Nicholson Baker (I think I was supposed to read this for one of my English classes and then I totally forgot about it. I think it is about phone sex.)
Alarms & Diversions - James Thurber
N.P. - Banana Yoshimoto
The Great American Bathroom Book II (I thought this was going to be one of those random trivia ones. Instead, it's summaries of classic novels and works, in which they include Ramona the Pest. I really should look closer.)
The Urban Muse: Stories on the American City - Edited by Ilan Stavans (Stories by Paul Auster, James Baldwin, John Cheever, Zora Neale Hurston, etc.)
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis ("The second book in a celebrated space trilogy which begins in Out of the Silent Planet and is concluded in That Hideous Strength." I couldn't find the others.)
The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber
A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin
The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. LeGuin
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin
Whisper of Death - Christopher Pike (I loved this book in fifth grade.)
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (I've never read this before.)
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan (Even though I consider myself feminist, I've never read any of the actual literature. So I figured I should start.)
Women and Child Care in China: A Firsthand Report - Ruth Sidel (This one I got because it was too bizarre. The back reads, "This firsthand report on the radically changing attitudes toward women and child rearing in today's China has dramatic implications for our own society...The book that resulted from their visit focuses on the amazingly rapid liberation of Chinese women from the "bitter past," when prostitution and venereal disease were rampant, marriages were made at an early age, and wives were virtually enslaved to their mothers-in-law. Now, Mrs. Sidel reporst, Chinese women are encouraged to take an active part in the life of the nation-and to help them do so, vast programs are providing birth-control information, pre-natal assistance, maternity leaves, and child care facilities." This book was first published in 1972. It reads like total fantasy to me right now.)
ManifestA: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future - Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (One of those pop-culture feminist books. I just felt like it.)
25 books. Awesome.
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