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Books Bought This Month Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists (Los Mejores Narradores Jovenes en Espanol) Bad Roommate Zine edited by Nicole J. Georges Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole J. Georges The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Books Borrowed This Month Children’s Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory by Ian Wojcik-Andrews Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship by Sarah Banet-Weiser The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock Comedy by Andrew Stott Live More, Want Less by Mary Carlomagno Ten by Gretchen McNeil The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Purity by Jackson Pearce The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti Continue reading →
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Mar · 31
Since I’m still plugging away at Fifty Fifty Me (if all 12 months of the year were like my last three, I might actually be in danger of not fulfilling the reading requirement – that’s not a problem because I have already read a gazillion things this year, but regardless, I still feel like a failure), I watched a documentary on Netflix the other day. It’s called Busting Out , and it’s about boobs, which is one of my favorite topics EVAR. I have tons of thoughts on the topic, based in gender and sex roles, in my self esteem issues as a teenager (it is damaging to weigh about 100 pounds as a teen and hear a dummy Victoria’s Secret employee say that if their bras don’t work for you – since, you know, they’re required to size you incorrectly – you should go to Lane Bryant), and in my general sociological interest of the world. So I was so excited to watch something that purported to be about all these things.
While you can tell very easily that it’s incredibly low budget, the movie’s not horrible. It’s also short – barely an hour – so if you want to view it and consider using it in a classroom or Girl Scout troop or something, it’s probably a great candidate. It’s one of those personal journey documentaries that also deals with some history and interviews, which was a little disappointing, because I was expecting a bit more focus on history/sociology/anthropology/etc. There was a little of everything, under the general umbrella of exploring why Americans think boobs are so fascinating and yet so gross and yet in other parts of the world, they’re not sexualized at all. Continue reading →
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Tagged body image , boobs , documentaries , fiftyfiftyme , gender , movies , sociology
Nov · 27
It’s been awhile since I wrote about the FiftyFiftyMe challenge, but I’m still working at it. I’m just not doing the best job, which is crazy, because clearly I could be. I recently started watching the entire series of The X-Files , and given that I’m done with season four, I could clearly have been watching movies this entire time. If I count every title, no matter the length or whether it was for school or not, I’ve read about 100 books this year already, so I’m already “done” with the 50 books part of the challenge (but will obviously continue to read more and more). Movies, though, I find really difficult to watch.
It’s not even that I don’t like them. I love movies, and I have a huge list of films that I’d really like to see. Many aren’t in theatres yet, so that’s a problem, as is the fact that I really can’t afford to go to the movie theatre 50 times a year. But even the movies that I could get on Netflix or DVD are a problem. I’ve returned at least five DVDs to the library unseen this year, just because no matter how excited I am about them, and no matter how much free time I have, I just can’t bring myself to watch them. Continue reading →
Tagged fiftyfiftyme , movies , nothing , reading , television
Jul · 29
Until Twitter, Goodreads was probably the social networking website I adapted to (and thus made indispensible to my life) most quickly. My senior year of high school, my friend sent me an invite, and within maybe six months, I was updating obsessively and in great detail. Now, GoodReads is my best friend and my favorite social site. Though I hate being so attached to an Internet thing, I do credit it with making me feel a lot of obligation and guilt if I am not reading consistently and with critical thought and reflection, and that can only be good for my brain.
That said, like I said in my post for 50/50 Me , things on the Internet have the tendency to make me want to know something about everything, and the subjects I am interested in reading about grow at a much faster rate than I read—and that’s saying something, because I have trained myself to read, with understanding and engagement, rather quickly. (Practice makes perfect, right?) So my to-read list grows very quickly, and I have a difficult time deleting books from it, for a variety of reasons.
1. If I added it to my to-read list, something made me want to read it, and usually my memory works in such a way that seeing the title or cover will trigger a conversation with a teacher who recommended the author or an article I read that was inspired by a collection of poems, or whatever. I think I owe it to my memory to at least keep it on the list, in the hopes that someday I might get to it. Continue reading →
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Apr · 09
Books Bought This Month The New American Haggadah by Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer
Books Borrowed This Month The House of Djinn by Suzanne Fisher Staples Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah Continue reading →
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