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Originally posted by Cowpernia
Kiwi, that link just takes me to a page when I can sign up to the NY Times stuff.

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot about that. I will paste the abstract here (which is all I've read yet anyway--talk about making snap judgments)

2. Also Reviewed This Week: "Four Spirits" by Sena Jeter
Naslund
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In her "historical novel centered around the Birmingham,
Ala., church bombing that killed four black girls in 1963,"
Sena Jeter Naslund "has done something unusually fine --
she's written a drifting, collective portrait of a city in
distress," says Will Blythe, a contributing editor at Men's
Journal.

"By cutting back and forth from one character to another, she
achieves ... a panoramic and even mysterious view of the way
diverse citizens immersed in their daily struggles affect one
another." "Naslund interweaves historical figures from the
local civil rights struggle with a varied array of fictional
characters," including "a local white college graduate" who
is "perhaps the most central among the novel's generous array
of sensibilities and an apparent stand-in for the author,"
writes Blythe.

"Naslund shows the quotidian inside every epochal moment,"
says Blythe, "the gradual way that history unfolds in a
thousand little encounters off the main stage." "Naslund
consistently displays a fine feel for the nearly inaudible
drama of the psyche, for the quiet ebb and flow of moral life
in the backwaters. It's as if Virginia Woolf went down to
Birmingham to cover the civil rights struggle for The
Bloomsbury Times," says Blythe.

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Isn't that crappy?
Kiwi

Orson Bean

2 fingers held up backwards means "I'll have 2 hotdogs/beers/popcorns/snocones" Haven't you ever been to a ball game?

And yes, hudda can be firm and hot, but it can also be soft and squooshy. Or old and dried up.

(Sorry, kids)

This HERE is an example of people proving something is true as they deny it. It's like those people who write letters to the editor saying their opinion is right while saying such nutty things that you know they're never right. This one is about librarians who want people to realize how relaxed and friendly they are while protesting a little librarian doll because it stereotypes them.

I wonder what time it is in Paris.

"Amazing push-button shushing action" - I LOVE IT! I want one.

At the tone it will be precisely 10.58 a.m. in gay Pareee. Just the same time as it is here. How come I don't have a café au lait and a croissant in my hot little hands?

If the bags could all agree and afford a meeting in Paris,i propose we make a plan to meet there in Autumn of 2008------------approximately our Ten Year Anniversary.---it's not far off ,so start saving.We will stay for a week and nothing short of the best will do.We will also have an overnight trip to Provence.

oh no,Perfect '04 is coming up!!!!----We did so WELL in Perfect '99!!!!

I am absolutely up for a week in Paris. As long as there is hudda and wine (I'm guessing these are not the same things, but are also not mutually exclusive). I understand that as the newest member of the entourage I might have to carry someone else's bags, but hey, I'll burn off those extra croissant calories.

What was Perfect 99? I think I gained 20 pounds that year. See, I WAS in the wrong group!


Chose-and-Swelled

I'm up for Perfect '04. I am fatter than I was for Perfect '99. In fact, I was a 14-16 at in the spring, now it seems I'm a 16-18. I'm wearing the 16's but they hurt. Bad. My adorable blue eyes are crushed under all the chubbiness of my eyes. My kitchen is a mess, my living room has stacks of mail, my dr table has stacks of mail, my foyer table has stacks of mail. Why do they send me all of this stuff? My point is that I may not be as perfect as I want to be. I think people treat me differently when I am chubby like this.

I am going to wrap up some crack laced hudda for all of you. I love you that much.

Paris in 2008 sounds good. If we're going to do that we Must lose weight. Let's not talk about it, though, OK? Except Cherry, she's very inspiring. And Wabby, because she actually loses as opposed to talking about it.

It is big house projects day today. We are repainting the outside of the windows. They should be replaced, but I like them.
DD is doing great. She is a maniac about her physical therapy and eats properly. Where did these kids get this discipline? It sure wasn't from me.
Orson Bean was the celebrity spokesman for Wilhelm Reich's Orgonics. He was also on game shows...what else did he do? Did he say my quote? Oh Kiwi, you're so smart.

Must go...feeling lazy in comparison to high energy husband. Remember years ago when DH sold business and said he'd only work part of the year? and would travel and spend time with us for the rest? ha ha
bye

I will bring the hudda to Paris if the rest of you will be realistic and pad your savings TO BRING MEEEE!!!!!!!!!! Herbie won't be paying for this one.

i can't take the hudda any longer------someone tell choose-cow about the cowpies-----------------i was thinking of losing weight this autumn---can any of you recommend any forums i can post on for inspiration----i have been with you for five years and i am having the same problem as Loharsie-----bigger than ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPECIAL TO LOHUDDA'S DAUGHTER---------wAY to go lushette on showing your mamma up with your mature outlook on health and fitness!!!!!! come on back and talk to us=-=-===i think you may be the inspiration we need!!!!

After this, don't you think Choose has figured it out?

Choosie Shoe-Bells choose Jif. No I haven't figured out...but if it's a cowpie, ok, I know what that is. I don't mind having a little mystery in my life.

How come it's only me and hub here, plus assorted and sundry pets (no cows) and I can't keep up? My counters produce their own paper stacks now.

Hey Cow-burn-ya...that Action Figure Librarian is for me. I just had to run down there because for the second time in a month the terrorist called (that's the automated "you have one book overdue" message from the library here, hub named it that), and I had already taken the book back. So I took my sweaty ticked off self down there, parked, raged inside, up the stairs to non-fiction, found the *#()&#RR$%( book, took it back downstairs. The One and Only Nice Librarian was on duty, but I know it was Old Prune Face who checked my books in last time, she has it in for me.

So, I need one of those dolls, I assume they come with straight pins, voodoo style?

Readerhell

looks like they took the eating disorder diet message away!!----someone must have reported it!!!