reading wednesday
Mar. 4th, 2020 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelightsLookee here comes the prodigal son
Fetch him a tall glass of water
But there's none in the cup cause he drank it all up
Left for the prodigal daughter
Oh
Cotton-eyed Joe
--Michelle Shocked
• What are you reading?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, for classics book group. When I read this as a teen, I completely missed the misogyny! I could see that Nurse Ratched was evil, but I thought that was just her. I think I didn't really identify with women, then; there were men and women and kids, and I was a kid. And civilization was determined to suppress everything, in kids, that prevented them from conforming to the appropriate model citizen: foolishness, willfulness, the failure to see things the way everyone else sees them, anger, despair, all sexual feeling outside the bonds of wedlock. But Kesey thinks that it is women who want to stamp all that out, in men. McMurphy gets crucified for fighting too much and fucking too much, but in real life, girls get punished much more harshly for much smaller acts of anger or sexual desire than boys. How did Kesey not know that?
Also I am listening to My Own Devices - True Stories from the Road, by Dessa.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption, by Susan Devan Harness, for Tawanda book group.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Blackfish City, by Sam Miller, for SF book group.
• What are you watching?
At Eternity's Gate, which is beautiful and strange, though not as beautiful and strange as Vincent Van Gogh.
Fetch him a tall glass of water
But there's none in the cup cause he drank it all up
Left for the prodigal daughter
Oh
Cotton-eyed Joe
--Michelle Shocked
• What are you reading?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, for classics book group. When I read this as a teen, I completely missed the misogyny! I could see that Nurse Ratched was evil, but I thought that was just her. I think I didn't really identify with women, then; there were men and women and kids, and I was a kid. And civilization was determined to suppress everything, in kids, that prevented them from conforming to the appropriate model citizen: foolishness, willfulness, the failure to see things the way everyone else sees them, anger, despair, all sexual feeling outside the bonds of wedlock. But Kesey thinks that it is women who want to stamp all that out, in men. McMurphy gets crucified for fighting too much and fucking too much, but in real life, girls get punished much more harshly for much smaller acts of anger or sexual desire than boys. How did Kesey not know that?
Also I am listening to My Own Devices - True Stories from the Road, by Dessa.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption, by Susan Devan Harness, for Tawanda book group.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Blackfish City, by Sam Miller, for SF book group.
• What are you watching?
At Eternity's Gate, which is beautiful and strange, though not as beautiful and strange as Vincent Van Gogh.