Comments on: My Sister’s Continent by Gina Frangello http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Sun, 17 May 2026 08:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: carolyn http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524&cpage=1#comment-6711 carolyn Thu, 25 May 2006 12:35:45 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524#comment-6711 i liked the guitarist. but i hated aris. i think the sadomasochistic michael was my favorite charater. :) i liked the guitarist. but i hated aris. i think the sadomasochistic michael was my favorite charater. :)

]]> By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524&cpage=1#comment-6693 girldetective Wed, 24 May 2006 20:37:09 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524#comment-6693 I think my two favorite characters, aside from Kendra, might have been Kirby's fiance Aris and Kendra's f-buddy Guitarist. Both of them were so completely wrecked by the women that they were simulataneously comic and pathetic. I had to look up the Freud/Dora details later. The story adheres to it suprisingly tightly, but I think it might have gone a bit too far, because the best reason I can see for keeping that awkward framing of the re-written case study, and ending with the hatred of the shrink, is because of the Freud case, not because of Frangello's story. If she'd trusted the power of her own narrative more, I think it could have been an even stronger book. I think my two favorite characters, aside from Kendra, might have been Kirby’s fiance Aris and Kendra’s f-buddy Guitarist. Both of them were so completely wrecked by the women that they were simulataneously comic and pathetic.

I had to look up the Freud/Dora details later. The story adheres to it suprisingly tightly, but I think it might have gone a bit too far, because the best reason I can see for keeping that awkward framing of the re-written case study, and ending with the hatred of the shrink, is because of the Freud case, not because of Frangello’s story. If she’d trusted the power of her own narrative more, I think it could have been an even stronger book.

]]> By: carolyn http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524&cpage=1#comment-6691 carolyn Wed, 24 May 2006 15:38:52 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524#comment-6691 oh and p.s. I "get" the retelling of Freud thing, i see that it's there, but it seemed pretty irrelevant to me. didn't seem to define the story in anyway - feel like that could have been left off the blurb and wouldn't have made a difference in my reading of it. oh and p.s. I “get” the retelling of Freud thing, i see that it’s there, but it seemed pretty irrelevant to me. didn’t seem to define the story in anyway - feel like that could have been left off the blurb and wouldn’t have made a difference in my reading of it.

]]> By: carolyn http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524&cpage=1#comment-6690 carolyn Wed, 24 May 2006 15:37:31 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=524#comment-6690 i cared less about Kirby as well. i think because she is so reactive. i cared less about Kirby as well. i think because she is so reactive.

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