Just popping in to say it was excellent. Everyone was so nice and liked the stories. They had great questions, too. I wanted to read to them all afternoon, shoot, all weekend.
But here’s the thing I love about Nashville. I was reading for old Jewish people and I am neither. Still, when I walked in the room, there were two people I knew! Half a million people in this city and there’s always someone to say “Oh! Hi! How are you?” to, no matter where you go, even if you’re a hermit like me.
This made me love you a little bit:
Its working title is The Tiger’s Wife’s Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Freedom. It’s a love story about wizards set in a war-torn Eastern European city beset by vampires and zombies. It takes place in the near future. The main character won’t go the f*%k to sleep but when he does invariably dreams of heaven. That’s all I’ll say about it.
But I still think that either David Pepin is a lying murderer or you don’t know shit about women.
(I will say this, as an aside about Mr. Peanut, for as much as I hated the book, a year later I still can’t stop thinking about it. We should all write something so memorable.)
I’m running short on time this morning, but I wanted to say that the thing that struck me about this is how familiar it seems–from the whole “he got me drunk” to the “he cheated on me” to the “we were going to get married.”
I know it’s kind of bullshit of me, but I don’t want to talk about the truthfulness of this particular claim. Instead, I want to say that I believe Palin is telling this story how she’s telling it because it fits a specific narrative–how you have to be on-guard at all times or the wrong boy will ruin you and you’ll be stuck with him. This is abstinence-only how it actually plays out (not the cute “the only safe sex is no sex” bullshit people seem to think). And this is a world-view I know like the back of my hand.
I don’t know if she realizes she’s accusing him of raping her. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out over the coming weeks, since the statute of limitations on rape in Alaska hasn’t expired yet. I do know, quite clearly, she is accusing him of ruining her and forcing her to be stuck with him, when he’s a jerk.
I think there will be a lot of girls and young women who follow this story because the “he ruined me and I got stuck with him” part resonates.
I reckon they will be surprised to learn that there’s another way of looking at what happened–that it’s a crime and that a lot of people are grossed out by the thought of a girl’s family encouraging her to stick with her rapist.
That’s going to be eye-opening for some girls.
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