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[laureaa]

"I glimpsed the stupendous clear-cut shoulders of the Rockies from between paragraphs of Madame Bovary. Cloud shadows roved languidly across her huge rock throat, traced her fir flanks. Since those days, I do not look at hair on female flesh without thinking, Deciduous?"

Anne Carson, Plainwater

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[absurd_alice]

have you read madame bovary? if not do so now it is a wonderfully fabulous book.

[laureaa]

I have not read it....When I took French we watched a movie version of it, but that is it. There are so many things I need to read! There was one book you mentioned before you moved...something with monkeys in the title? Confused...

[absurd_alice]

hmm... monkeys are you sure thats what it was i'm looking at my books and i can't find anything with monkeys in the title. oh wait now i remember it was called sock monkey or something like that. its a wierd twisted book. i'm not sure if you would like it but it is kind of interesting. but i recently read middlesex, by jeffrey eugenides, who also wrote the wonderful virgin suicides. middlesex is about a hermaphrodite who was raised as a girl and no one not even the parents knew what she/he was, then when she/he was like 15 it was discovered. it is a kick ass book that was written beautifully you should definitely check that out.

[laureaa]

Dude, I read Middlesex last year. It is my favorite, favorite.
If you liked Middlesex, you should read The Time-Traveler's Wife. SO AMAZING.