http://www.girldetective.net/?p=4801 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Thu, 14 May 2026 06:26:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=4801&cpage=1#comment-30634 sm Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:40:09 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=4801#comment-30634 beloved was the first book that utterly confused me, yet i read it so it must have been assigned to me (highschool english? a university women's lit course?) by the time i realize that the baby was haunting the house, i was too far in to start over. (plus i'd never re-started a book - books were easy companions that entertained me. they didn't challenge me yet, or change me...) there was a movie adaptation that i saw years later, and it made me take the book down from the shelf to reread the beginning... well, i kept on reading and by the time i looked up it was 3am, and i wasn't tired in the least - i was THAT taken by it. beloved was the first book that utterly confused me, yet i read it so it must have been assigned to me (highschool english? a university women’s lit course?) by the time i realize that the baby was haunting the house, i was too far in to start over. (plus i’d never re-started a book - books were easy companions that entertained me. they didn’t challenge me yet, or change me…)
there was a movie adaptation that i saw years later, and it made me take the book down from the shelf to reread the beginning… well, i kept on reading and by the time i looked up it was 3am, and i wasn’t tired in the least - i was THAT taken by it.

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