POPSugar Reading Challenge: #12. A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read, the genre being non-fiction.
We did parts of The Vagina MonologuesPOPSugar Reading Challenge: #12. A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read, the genre being non-fiction.
We did parts of The Vagina Monologues as, well, for lack of a better word, plays for various events in college; this was my introduction to this...play. Of course, because performing the whole thing would be too time consuming, we only performed bits of it. I vividly remember In Memory of her Face; I wasn't in it, but I watched it, and what a passionate, heart-rending performance it was!
What makes The Vagina Monologues special is that it isn't fiction. It's true, it's real, and it's the opinions of living, breathing women. The anecdotes, the incidents, the stories - they're human too - warm, passionate, humorous, and of course, meaningful. I would want my daughters to read it; I think all women should read it. In fact, I think men should read it too, 'twould change their perception of what a vagina is, and that is much needed. ...more
Full disclosure: I never had plans of reading this; I found this "book" in the library quite by accident, and thought "why the hell not?". I say "bookFull disclosure: I never had plans of reading this; I found this "book" in the library quite by accident, and thought "why the hell not?". I say "book" because it is not a book per se, but the filming script for the movie. A movie which I absolutely adored. I am, by nature, a rather cynical person, so satirical, dark humour appeals to me deeply.
The director of the movie, Sam Mendes called it a 'kaleidoscopic journey through the American suburbia'. I'm not American, and I don't know how the quintessential American suburbia functions. What I do know, is that the script, and by extension, the movie, depicts dysfunctionality in a realistic and rather efficient manner. Before Walter White, there was Lester Burnham, a regular Joe going through a mid-life crisis. He's as average as it gets, as referenced by his beige cubicle which acts as an allegory to his life. His wife resents him, and his daughter hates him. "We used to be happy", he reminisces at one point, while looking at a photo of his family during happier days. His daughter, Jane is withdrawn, angsty, and insecure. Ashamed of her parents, especially her father. Carolyn, his wife, is ambitious, and somewhere down the line, let her ambition control other aspects of her life, turning into a bitter, self-loathing woman who constantly berates herself and slaps herself. There's the boy next door Ricky, who falls in love with Jane. Ricky lives with his controlling father and emotionally frail mother. Ricky, who sees beauty in everything, (view spoiler)[including the famous white plastic bag fluttering in the wind. (hide spoiler)]
I think in the end, that's what one gets from the movie; that there is beauty in everything. There is beauty in life, and in death. ...more
Alright, alright. Did I love this? Kinda, yes. Mostly because I felt this sense of nostalgia. Don't get me wrong, it was good, yes. But like I always Alright, alright. Did I love this? Kinda, yes. Mostly because I felt this sense of nostalgia. Don't get me wrong, it was good, yes. But like I always say, Harry Potter is this generation's Star Wars, and it will always, always be close to my heart. It took me back to a time when my biggest worry was not getting caught reading HP in school. The last book released when I was thirteen. Nine flipping years ago. So to the authors of this, I say thank you. Thank you for giving me (us?) a chance of reliving this. To JKR, I say, thank you for making my childhood magical, truly. Thank you, because I used to breathe Harry Potter as a child. Thank you, because Harry Potter made me a better person.
I did have my problems with this; it probably doesn't even deserve four stars, because the originals are always the greatest, but I'll let this one have it. It didn't have the kind of sass or love that we've come to know (and love) from JKR, but hey, it could've been worse, for all you know.
I'd love to watch the play, though. Sometime. ...more
"I almost think we are all of us ghosts, Pastor Manders. It is not only what we have inherited from our fI think this quote pretty much sums it up:
"I almost think we are all of us ghosts, Pastor Manders. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that "walks" in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light."
Because you see, Ghosts merely isn't about the ghosts of girlfriends' past inhabiting Mrs. Alving's residence, but more about the ghosts of her own past; the ghosts that affected her relationship with her son, and the ghosts that changed her views about the world. ...more
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