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Oct. 10th, 2001 01:37 pmFinished -Rabbit Redux-. Strangely, I feel like it was a better book than -Rabbit, Run-, although I enjoyed the experience of reading -Rabbit, Run- much more than I enjoyed -Rabbit Redux-. I sure did like the last paragraph, however.
I didn't really have anything on hand to read next, so I borrowed a book from my roommate; -The Last Time I Wore a Dress- by Daphne Scholinski. It's a memoir about her experiences as a young woman being treated in various mental institutions for what was deemed "inappropriate" gender expression. She was severely depressed, had been physically and sexually abused, but the doctors were more concerned about the fact that she didn't wear makeup, and preferred ratty jeans and heavy metal t-shirts to more "appropriately feminine" clothes. It was an interesting book, and a very quick read. Not high literature, but valuable nonetheless. I found Scholinski to be a much more sympathetic narrator than the authors of other mental illness memoirs that I have read, such a -Girl, Interrupted-.
And now I've started -The Porcupines- by Julian Barnes. I read Barnes's -History of the Worlds in 10 1/2 Chapters- for a class a few years ago and really liked it, so I'm optimistic about this one. I've only read about five pages, however, so it's a little too soon to comment.
I didn't really have anything on hand to read next, so I borrowed a book from my roommate; -The Last Time I Wore a Dress- by Daphne Scholinski. It's a memoir about her experiences as a young woman being treated in various mental institutions for what was deemed "inappropriate" gender expression. She was severely depressed, had been physically and sexually abused, but the doctors were more concerned about the fact that she didn't wear makeup, and preferred ratty jeans and heavy metal t-shirts to more "appropriately feminine" clothes. It was an interesting book, and a very quick read. Not high literature, but valuable nonetheless. I found Scholinski to be a much more sympathetic narrator than the authors of other mental illness memoirs that I have read, such a -Girl, Interrupted-.
And now I've started -The Porcupines- by Julian Barnes. I read Barnes's -History of the Worlds in 10 1/2 Chapters- for a class a few years ago and really liked it, so I'm optimistic about this one. I've only read about five pages, however, so it's a little too soon to comment.
