What Real Alaskan Women Read
Ohh dear...
I still have not been able to put the book down, with an exception. I am about half way through the book and it has caused me to think sooo much. But I have to be brave and honest (snicker) and admit that I picked up Twilight as an evening-let-down-my-hair book and let-my-brain-relax and I could not put it down. Talk about book-candy. There is not a whole bunch of substance to the book (really none) but it has capitalized my time for reading.
As embarrassed as I am to admit it!
At any rate, I thought I should share some of my favorite parts for the Eat Love Prey Book. I am serious though when I say I have had to set it down to think some about it. I do identify with the character so much (I wonder if quite a few women do) and it has caused me to pause and consider her perspective on life. Even creepier the fact that "religion" continues to sneak back into my concept of being from so many different angles, no matter how many times I turn my head at it. What's up with that!!
Okay favorite parts so far: (I cannot wait till you all get to this part so I can hear your word):
the word in Talkeetna: CHILLAX
the word on Hum Property: UNKNOWN (quickly followed by DREAM)
my word: HOPE
Okay so now that I have said that, there is a parallel to this in the Twilight book. When you turn into a vampire (I know how can I even make a connection, Again I am flushed with embarrassment) your special characteristic of who you are comes out. Mine would be feeling everybody's feelings. From Gilbert, "Everything sad leaked through me and left damp traces behind." Enough Said.
Another section, as she is speaking with Giovanni, he has a phrase when having trouble saying what you want to say (I am so not verbal) "Say it like you eat it." I love this. To me this makes so much sense, and I can see this applicable in how I communicate with others. Eat to get energy, i.e. get to the point.
Finally, this is one of my favorite parts: "Virginia Wolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of the sword , she said, there lies convention, tradition and order, where "all is correct." But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course." " Though I would say that this follows for both men and woman, I can very much so understand this in terms of being a woman. I have often chosen to be on the shadowed side, and as such my life has always been Unknown. Very difficult to live by, but I do not think I could live any other way, in fact I run from it in fear.
As embarrassed as I am to admit it!
At any rate, I thought I should share some of my favorite parts for the Eat Love Prey Book. I am serious though when I say I have had to set it down to think some about it. I do identify with the character so much (I wonder if quite a few women do) and it has caused me to pause and consider her perspective on life. Even creepier the fact that "religion" continues to sneak back into my concept of being from so many different angles, no matter how many times I turn my head at it. What's up with that!!
Okay favorite parts so far: (I cannot wait till you all get to this part so I can hear your word):
the word in Talkeetna: CHILLAX
the word on Hum Property: UNKNOWN (quickly followed by DREAM)
my word: HOPE
Okay so now that I have said that, there is a parallel to this in the Twilight book. When you turn into a vampire (I know how can I even make a connection, Again I am flushed with embarrassment) your special characteristic of who you are comes out. Mine would be feeling everybody's feelings. From Gilbert, "Everything sad leaked through me and left damp traces behind." Enough Said.
Another section, as she is speaking with Giovanni, he has a phrase when having trouble saying what you want to say (I am so not verbal) "Say it like you eat it." I love this. To me this makes so much sense, and I can see this applicable in how I communicate with others. Eat to get energy, i.e. get to the point.
Finally, this is one of my favorite parts: "Virginia Wolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of the sword , she said, there lies convention, tradition and order, where "all is correct." But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course." " Though I would say that this follows for both men and woman, I can very much so understand this in terms of being a woman. I have often chosen to be on the shadowed side, and as such my life has always been Unknown. Very difficult to live by, but I do not think I could live any other way, in fact I run from it in fear.
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