tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464201653179922615.post4145076893698782137..comments2023-06-16T07:21:59.344-04:00Comments on Jacqui's Room: Light in August: the Jacqui's Room NotesJacquihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08277260387578439327noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464201653179922615.post-9263562824411638512008-08-27T13:18:00.000-04:002008-08-27T13:18:00.000-04:00Kristi, I have never read Gulliver's Travels and y...Kristi, I have never read Gulliver's Travels and you make me want to.<BR/><BR/>I went on a weeks long road trip camping and hiking through the southwest one summer. We made our way through Death Valley and then on a whim, decided to hit Vegas, which I had never seen. Wow. Culture shock. It made my eyes hurt. I just kept saying, "Where is all this water coming from???"Jacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277260387578439327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464201653179922615.post-86243754798465398742008-08-27T10:30:00.000-04:002008-08-27T10:30:00.000-04:00So glad to hear you're making great progress on yo...So glad to hear you're making great progress on your novel - congrats!<BR/><BR/>My book for the week was Gulliver's Travels. I really enjoyed it. The book did a great job of showing how strange and not very wise other customs appear to us when we first see them in another land, but eventually after living there for awhile, we adopt those customs or at least get used them, and feel culture shock about our own homeland when we return to it. <BR/><BR/>I experienced that double culture shock in spending a summer in some poorer areas of China. Obviously I had culture shock when I arrived there, but I was a bit surprised by the culture shock when I returned to the U.S. We spent our first night back at Venice Beach in LA, and the vulgarity and amount of waste I saw was simply shocking after being where I was. Of course, I felt like hugging the stoplights in LA because drivers actually obey them - they don't in China. One thing that took a long time to get over was being repulsed by bakeries. In China if something looked like chocolate in a bakery that I was passing, it wasn't, it was actually nasty red bean paste. It gave me an involuntary twitch whenever I saw a bakery.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, back to Gulliver's Travels - very fun book!Kristi Valianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05997984098630895653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464201653179922615.post-48935932566813646632008-08-25T18:50:00.000-04:002008-08-25T18:50:00.000-04:00I've always struggled with Faulkner because of his...I've always struggled with Faulkner because of his stream of consciousness. It's funny, though. On the one hand, we say "Don't spell it all out as if you're afraid readers won't get it." On the other hand, you don't spell things out in your work and your crit partners say, "I don't get it." Maybe it's the difference between classic lit, which you're supposed to study and the onus is on you to understand, and recreational reading, which we want to be 100% comprehended at a glance. I do know that as a jr. high English student, I would have appreciated any further clues to the "deep meaning" and symbolism we were supposed to be digging out of our assigned texts.Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10006966091789130047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464201653179922615.post-80021808637723706492008-08-25T14:58:00.000-04:002008-08-25T14:58:00.000-04:00Yay for that last scene in your book!! That's got...Yay for that last scene in your book!! That's got to be feeling great, congrats!!! :)Tabithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420910182752981979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464201653179922615.post-32901732767474886772008-08-25T14:52:00.000-04:002008-08-25T14:52:00.000-04:00Amber, I do have one, giant, vastly helpful super ...Amber, I do have one, giant, vastly helpful super power:<BR/><BR/>day care<BR/><BR/><BR/>But I do most of my reading at night, so, no, I do not sleep nearly enough! And you should see my kitchen!Jacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277260387578439327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464201653179922615.post-58630060249443114642008-08-25T14:45:00.000-04:002008-08-25T14:45:00.000-04:00You absolutely amaze me. Do you sleep, or do you h...You absolutely amaze me. Do you sleep, or do you have superhuman powers? Do your kids nap most of the day? Do you have a housekeeper like in the Brady Bunch?<BR/><BR/>I'm just proud of myself for getting the kitchen cleaned and having the foresight to use the slow cooker for tonight's dinner so that the kitchen will STAY clean for a few more hours.Amber Loughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12374291005610549082noreply@blogger.com