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Currents: 14 y.o. girls, memories, satanic kitties

8/16/2014

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writing: 
A story about a 14-year-old girl and her experience with identity, fitting in, self-actualization, and self-mutilation. She has a very vivid imagination that flummoxes the adults in her life. She’s a sensitive soul, a witty banterer, and a lover of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Meet Lizzie:
My favorite thing about being in the hospital is that I get to wear pajamas all day. My second favorite thing is that they can’t quite figure out what’s wrong with me. I’m much more mysterious in here than I ever was in my former, clothes-wearing, high-school-student life. Back there, in the Hell-Mouth, cool kids ignoring un-cool kids is de rigueur. I was unfortunately even less cool than un-cool. I got lucky if someone called me a “witch,” the more subversive and slightly more compelling version of “weird-o.” It was nice to be marked as un-invisible every now and then. 

reading: 
The Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr. 

These stories are delightful and sad and human. I saw him read a few years ago at the Tin House Writer’s Workshop in Portland, Oregon. His words are luminous. This particular collection has a lot to do memory (as the title suggests). Are our memories what make us human? Are they more? Are they less?

Here is the NY Times review of this lovely book.


coveting: 
Picture
Eeeeeeep!

Thanks to the awesome website WayGother for elucidating  me to the existence of these adorable prints by Jessicka Addams. 
1 Comment
Mommy
8/21/2014 02:09:13 pm

Okay...you got me! I read the reviews of The Memory Wall and I had this premonition that I have already read this book! Damnit! My memory betrayed me again! Because now I am going to have to read Mr. Doerr's book to see if my memory is correct! I recently found out that in Texas when you purchase a vehicle that is 1955, you don't need to have registration or seat belts for it because it is considered to be an "antique"! So, I guess you know what that means...I am officially an antique...if my memory serves me correct!? I love you forever. That will never fade away. pinky promise. Mommy.

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