nightspore
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Posted: Feb. 06 2011, 19:50 |
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| Quote (bee @ Feb. 06 2011, 17:18) | have just finished Alice Walker's The Color Purple, very moving story set in the Deep South of the States and very, very spiritual too, characters finding a meaning to their lives ...it's also an interesting study on influences in relationships & love of fellow man/woman ~ though the film was very inferior or perhaps disappointing
...also a short story called The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman which tells the story of a woman's descent into madness. It is so sad and so cleverly written, I think. Really worth seeking out if you are even slightly interested. It Looks at attitudes to mental health and perhaps the oppression of women. ( I'm not a feminist particularly, hope i am not giving that impression! I'm not an 'anything' really, I think I see everyone as equal )
Have just started a book called Underground London, by Stephen Smith which is very interesting, not just about 'The Underground Railway' but also buried waterways & bunkers built during the war, tunnels and all kinds of things no one gives a thought to above ground. I love things that are hidden from view. And the history. |
That's an odd coincidence. As I was telling you offline, one of the texts we studied in the feminist unit I did at undergraduate level was "The Yellow Wallpaper". But another was The Color Purple. If you want to complete the "colours" trilogy, we also looked at DM Thomas's The White Hotel.
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, a couple of days ago I finished the first section (they're four in total) of the book pictured below, which is a very nice, very graphical book with lots and lots of photos and pics, about the Sherman brothers and their work for Walt Disney - and beyond.
