We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
I just finished reading The Virgin Suicides, and it was beautiful. If you haven't read any of Jeffrey Eugenides, I highly recommend both this book and Middlesex, which I couldn't put down. What are you reading at the moment?
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how have you not read this book before?? i read it like 5 times in high school and watched the beautiful movie even more...speaking of kristen dunst/soffia coppola matchups I just watched Marie Antoinette for the first time last week (bought it at HMV in the $6.99 bin - score!)....that movie is 2 hours worth of jaw dropping eye candy....rococo interiors, colourful macaroons and pugs a pleanty make me yearn to live in the Louis XVI lifestyle
ReplyDeleteHave you read Middlesex? Go out and get it now!
ReplyDeleteI agree about Marie Antoinette - it's one of my favourites, and had an argument with the guy at blockbuster about its amazingness.