“Daniel attempted to lead me; I tried to lead him. We struggled. I pushed him on the shoulder; he pushed me back. I kicked him in the shin. Hunching, he grabbed my right hand in both of his and bit me hard.”
— Excerpt from Angela Nishimoto’s “Sex Education: A Tragicomedy, Part II” in ms aligned 3
Here’s your chance to listen to some of the contributors to Ms Aligned 3: Women Writing About Men!
Online reading February 25 for the Redwood City Library, 5:30 p.m. – 6:45.
Here are just a few of the lovely authors who will be reading:
Pat Matsueda (Series Editor) * Lillian Howan * Donna Lee Miele * Angela Nishimoto * Cassandra Lane * Jill McCabe Johnson * Rachel King * Ryan Nicole Granados * Grace Loh Prasad
Signs in front of the Historic Fox Theater, Redwood City
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Richmond, VA
Richard E. Lee, Richmond, VA
As self told one young man on Twitter: This is your moment. Better not waste it.
I won’t, he said.
(In his very next tweet he called Joe Biden an “Andrew Jackson Democrat” and she was so confused but didn’t have time to figure out what he meant so she blocked him)
This novel has a very engaging beginning. It was one of the last things self checked out of Redwood City Public Library, way back February (and she needs to return it soon, obv). Since Redwood City Library opened to curbside pick-up of books on hold, she got the notice that one of the books she requested, Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King, is ready for pick-up. YAY!
The Snakes is self’s first Sadie Jones.
One-sentence summary: Young husband and wife throw caution to the winds, quit their respective jobs (The wife loved her job, but the husband didn’t love his) and embark on a road trip.
Ch. 2 (p. 19)
The service station on the A26 from Calais was sunny and civilised. The day was mild. They sat outside and had a coffee, watching people playing on the manufactured grassy slopes. They’d bought a left-hand drive Peugeot in London, the week before they left. It had seventy thousand miles on the clock and a manual gearbox. Most of the car was blue but the bonnet, for no reason the seller would commit to, was matt black.
“It looks like shit,” Bea had whispered to Dan, out of earshot.
“It is shit, it’s nine-hundred quid.”
They’d left London the morning before their tenant, a PhD student from Korea, was due to move in.
Self checked out a collection of Elmore Leonard short stories from the Redwood City Public Library early this year. She hasn’t managed to get to it yet. COVID happened, and then self’s mind flew out the window.
This afternoon, while browsing through her stack of “To Read” books, she encountered the Elmore Leonard collection, and immediately turned to the title story.
Opening line:
They had dug coal together as young men and then lost touch over the years.
omg!
Justified!
Timothy Olyphand and Walton Goggins! Those two actors were born to play Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder. Did either of the two ever win an Emmy? Did the show itself ever win an Emmy? For the six years of its run, self doesn’t think she ever skipped an episode.
When stimulus checks arrived in mid-April, Americans let rip on a broad range of goods. — Leader, p. 7
LOL LOL LOL
America is not dead — as long as Americans can shop, there is hope.
During the first week of lockdown, self was very anxious. She worried about stuff like — writing instruments.
Self still writes in longhand, and she needs a special kind of pen. After days of fruitless searching in groceries and supermarkets, frustrated at not being able to find the exact pen she was in the habit of using, she finally found them on Amazon. Sold in packs of 10. They took a bit longer than she expected to arrive, but they did arrive. So that got rid of one of her primal anxieties.
And she makes herself use Door Dash to support local mom-and-pop restaurants (one of self’s favorites, a small Thai restaurant on Woodside Road, closed two weeks after the lockdown, and she was so bereft).
This week you can post anything that stimulates or delights your sense of touch. It can be thorns on a rose, a soft baby’s face or tree bark. — Cee Neuner
Self decided to take pictures for this post:
Her neighbor Claudio collects old pieces of wood and turns them into bird feeders. This is all about texture:
These furry slippers were a gift from Dearest Mum. Even though it’s not cold in self’s house, she wears these slippers every day:
Self loves joining these foto challenges. Since Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is SEEING, self took her camera to the backyard to check on how her flowers are doing:
Exciting: Her Winsome Rose is finally blooming!
More blooms are opening on her Fourth of July Rose:
Kanlaon 