One to anger, one to inspire

Feb 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM
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One of my Vox neighbors posted tonight about how Kenneth Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund "filed legal briefs defending the constitutionality of Prop 8 and attempting to forcibly divorce 18,000 same-sex couples that were married in California last year". It's going before the state Supreme Court next week. Can I dislike Kenneth Starr anymore than I already did? Signs point to yes. If you care at all about civil rights, go here: http://www.couragecampaign.org/Divorce and sign the electronic petition before March 2. Can you imagine legally marrying and then half a year later not being married simply because a group decided they didn't think you should be?

On a completely unrelated note, I'm going to focus on a person that I do think is brilliant. I've become a diehard Jhumpa Lahiri fan. Seriously, all of her books have been amazing, but her latest is particularly so:

Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Jhumpa Lahiri

Read it.

Back to your regularly-scheduled programming.

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That Prop 8 thing is the biggest bunch of crap I've ever seen. DeWitte and I both put links on our Facebook..at the risk of having all of DeWitte's family "unfriend" us..but then, would that be a bad thing? I'm thinking maybe it wouldn't.

good lord. the people who voted for prop. 8 got what they wanted. can't they leave those already married couples alone? this is seriously a form of harassment.

Thanks for posting the link. :)

I really liked The Namesake. Her other books are short stories, right? I've heard Unaccustomed Earth is totally brilliant.

No problem - the link needs to be circulated :)

Yes, the other two are collections of short stories. Though in Unaccustomed Earth she connected the last three stories so they are in a way one longer story, just not in typical narrative format.

Thanks for putting that link up, I hadn't heard about the "forcible divorce" --- how am I not surprised? Infuriated -- yes. Surprised -- no.

Hope you're feeling well these days! :D

I've heard so many wonderful things about Jhumpa Lahiri...thanks for reminding me that I need to start reading her! Does her genre involve magic realism or fantasy, or am I confusing her with someone else?

Janette replied to Farfaraway’s comment:
Mar 25, 2009
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Her writing doesn't delve into fantasy, so it's probably someone else you're thinking of, but I do think you would still like her. "Unaccustomed Earth" was my favorite so far.