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mrsronweasley) wrote2003-09-26 04:38 pm
mrsronweasley) wrote2003-09-26 04:38 pm
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I have to put this line up.
From "Edinburgh" by Alexander Chee
There's a hole in me the size of you, from where you came through.
From "Edinburgh" by Alexander Chee
There's a hole in me the size of you, from where you came through.
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::: sighs, feeling a bit dipsy this evening :::
Have no way of telling you, but the wonderful Dr Who is being brought back in 2005 by your friend and mine (sort of) (not really, strictly speaking) QAF-creator Russell T. Davies. Funny the way things link up...
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I got the line wrong first. 'Whole' instead of 'hole'. Oops. But isn't it gorgeous? It really just gets you.
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Love and 2 Pounds a week,
Jo
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You do. But hey, you've got 'Maurice'. All I'm sayin'.
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What you really have to read is "The Year of Ice" by Brian Malloy. I finished it a few months ago and every time I think back on it I like it even more. It has become my favourite novel about a gay boy. I just love it and therefore everyone should read it.
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Also there was also something his writer (?) friend, the one he worked for briefly, said about Winter; something about how the increased oxygen in the air allows one to think clearly. I just loved that bit of description because it's really true yet I had never heard anyone else describe it that was before. It seemed to summarize the entire feeling the book had for me which at the time seemed to be about finding some sort of tranquility within oneself inspite of the things people do to each other and to themselves.
Also I liked the phase when he is in love with his room mate and somehow winds up in a relationship with that other man who was so angry all the time.
"Edinburgh" was strange for me because, although I was really impressed with parts of it, overall I didn't think it was a great novel. It was beautiful and lyrical but it wasn't really coheasive. It felt fragmented and the parts I enjoyed most all could have been poetry instead. Which is interesting because I read somewhere Mr. Chee was a poet prior to this book.
Maybe I'll have time to reread it. I'm interested to know what it's like the second time around.
Do let me know if/when you ever do get around to reading "the Year of Ice". It's different from "Edinburgh" in that nothing really traumatic happens to the characters. In hindsight I think that
I'm definitely talking to much.
Oh, there is this part where the main character is thinking about two men being together and he speculates that homosexual relationships are more meaningful then het. because when a man and a woman get together everybody approves of it but when two men are together no one wants to see it yet they stand together anyway and that makes their relationship extra special.
It was much more eloquent in the book but you get the gist of the sentiment. It struck me as really beautiful and it pretty much sums up why I was drawn to slash in the first place.
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Monkey Beach was like watching a mental breakdown from the inside. It's one of the creepiest things I've ever read mostly because Robinson makes it so utterly convincing.
It's such a brilliant book.
You also Canadian?
So to speak. I was born in Canada but followed the literary scene from the UK. I moved back to the east coast in January.
Are you at UBC or UVic? What do you think of the west coast? I've never been but am very curious. I almost went to Emily Carr. I flipped a coin and wound up on the east coast instead.
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