E. M. Keller > Recent Status Updates

"Town and prairie were lost in the wild storm, which was neither Earth nor sky. Nothing but fierce winds and a blank whiteness. A lamp could shine out through the blackest darkness and a shout could be heard a long way, but no light and no cry could reach through a storm that had wild voices and an unnatural light of its own." (122)

Me after it's been cold for about 2 weeks: "This must be how Laura Ingalls Wilder felt in The Long Winter. I should reread that"

Okay but who thought it would be a good idea to put smiling women on the cover 😣

Ok well I'm devastated

Natalie would have had such a great Tumblr blog in 2013

If I'm being fr I am not reading this anymore lol it is low key boring, but it was my Grandma's favorite book so I'll read it some day

So far this is very different than Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Like some of these sentences are just doing TOO MUCH girl.

"For both advocates and critics, unshaven armpits and legs served as a symbolic reminder of women's labor—in this case, the repetitive, expensive, and often invisible labor of maintaining hair-free flesh. The question whether such efforts were a trivial nuisance...or the very embodiment of women's oppression...would shape discussions of women's bodily choices for decades to come [after the 1970s]" (118-119).

"Even as fashion and custom allowed some women unprecedented freedom of movement, new forms of self-regulation and constraint were coming into being. In a remarkably short time...'body hair became disgusting' to middle-class American women, its removal a way 'to separate oneself from cruder people, lower class, and immigrant'" (79.)

Hooked so far but we'll see how much of Emilie's "quirky" personality I'll be able to handle

Fingers crossed I finish this in time for bookclub this Sunday 🤞

I remember watching this movie a lot as a child and being so scared every time!!! We need more gothic children's literature lol

Lol it's giving Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big

Not the Beethoven cameo 💀

Okay but why is Henry's backstory so incredibly lame compared to Addie's??? Lol

The audio book is 👌🔥living up to the hype thus far

Ok this is more like a textbook and I think I'm going to just buy my own copy of this and read it when I have time....which is not now lol

"Reciprocity helps resolve the moral tension of taking a life by giving in return something of value that sustains the ones who sustain us. One of our responsibilities as human people is to find ways to enter into reciprocity with the more-than-human world."

Girl really couldn't write a book without a character whose a writer, could she?

It would be so epic and chill if an estranged family member from PEI would whisk me away for the summer, buy a house with me on a gulf, and let me make jams, and bake pies, and decorate the spare room, and garden all day 🙏🙏 #manifest

Yes, I'm just as surprised as anyone I haven't read this yet, especially since I've owned a copy since 2022!