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Only What Is : fiction and other writings from a blog
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Eighty-nine glimpses of life imagined, experienced, felt, cherished, and above all, clearly seen. Here are stories of people yearning for companionship, parables of the unwittingly enlightened and the unknowingly benighted, landscapes of desolate beauty, moments of everyday tenderness and of sudden comic recognition, transcending the line between fiction and nonfiction.
Date Added: May 2, 2006 Hits: 441 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0
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The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez
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Lost and lonely when she moves in with her stepfather's family in Philadelphia, Raisin Rodriguez, 13, talks on her blog to her two best friends back in Berkeley, California. Her daily, sometimes hourly, narrative is frank, needy, hilarious, intimate, and crude. On one level it's the usual diary about the new kid trying to fit in with the cool group. But Raisin, who admits she's way beyond Judy Blume, also writes about examining her intimate body parts, comparing what she sees with the wrinkled "face of Mervis the librarian." There's also the teacher who looks as if he has "pubic hair coming out of his ears." When she forgets to log out at school, someone prints her blog for all to read. Blogs tend to be ephemeral, but what will last here is the close-up of peer cruelty, personal intimacy, and public embarrassment. Raisin can't help wondering if the word embarrassment comes from the root words bare and ass.
Date Added: May 2, 2006 Hits: 505 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0
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The Germaine Truth
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A novel-in-progress about a small town on the edge of the Central Oregon desert. Part murder mystery, part portrait of rural America, part utopian dream, The Germaine Truth is not just a novel, but a whole fictional town, complete with newspaper, chamber of commerce, historical society, radio station, and several organizations. It's a total experience.
Date Added: Mar 23, 2007 Hits: 92 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0
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