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[me_pirateship]

Looking forward to seeing you in 2 weeks! *hugs*

*LOL* Probably that's why I hadn't continued reading for... 10 months or so. *LOL* I must really stop looking up the endings of books. (Particularly bad with detective stories.) I had no idea Lawrence was betraying her until I got there, though. I thought he was just the same as Irena - bored, but comfortably bored. Too lazy to revive the relationship and too lazy to end it. Afraid of change.
Good. *LOL* I felt forced to identify with her and resented... probably that's what I didn't like about the book. That and the sugar-coated use of language... and the fact that the author failed to create any degree of erotic tension, although there are some passages that are clearly meant to be not funny but sexy... oh, well. The author seems to strongly identify with Irena, though.
Ramsey? He had abdominal muscles like a "school of fish"... come on, that IS irresistible... *ROFL* See what I mean?... *staring at the guppies*
Yeah, she probably wanted to BE like him, not to marry him. Full of himself, respected for what he does, even though it's "just" a sport she's not even interested in. Her job is "just" illustrating children's books and she feels constantly overlooked. She's bored with drawing, would love to have been to university, identifies with him who seems to be working-class and uneducated - oh, small wonder, he isn't even from a working clas family, it turns out as she meets his parents at his funeral... Lawrence, though, is intelligent and "taking care of her" (and she feels inferior). Oh, and the book ends in the conclusion that a woman should pick her partner accoring to whether she's ready to help him die... (provided she outlives him). A tiny bit negative. I thought it was meant to end in a conclusion about having a choice in life... *LOL* But the other conclusion was stronger...

[elle_icit]

Nooo...*LOL* How can you do that with detective stories?

Lawrence was bored but was willing to be seduced by his colleague. Yep...change....the enemy of most.:-)) I couldn't identify with her at all and found I wanted to shake her. No...it def wasn't a sexy book....but I did think it was very honest and perceptive about relationships. I also got the impression that there was a fair amount of auto biographical stuff....if not factual then feelings wise.

Erm....it takes a lot more than 'abdominal muscles' He had the intellect, empathy and sensitivity of a guppy I'd say. *LOL*

Erm...what? Help him die? I thought the book was about relationships, choices and self awareness....Irena not having much....mainly because she didn't allow herself any. It WAS pretty negative...and could have ended positively.....but didn't. Because she was so stupid and couldn't see beyond either/or. She couldn't see any possibilities and just went with what life gave her or sent her way. She was SO annoying.

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Yes, autobiographical, I also got that feeling. But in an identifying way... the author was not shedding light on things, but agrees with Irena. *LOL* The book would have been so good if it was de-masking people's behaviour. Most readers don't see Irena's problems, I guess, and the author doesn't point them out as she doesn't see them either. There is an afterword by the author in my copy... which shows that Irena's self-awareness is not the topic. Shriver fully identifies with Irena. She defends the book as being about a modern type of anti-feminist woman who is feminist nevertheless as she sticks to her opoinions and thus is very strong. *LOL* Moreover, she doesn't make any use of the concept she's developed and which could be so interesting. She doesn't explore the posibilities of "parallel universes" depending on choices at all... Irena didn't make use of her choices, the two stories were the same, esentially, because Irina was the same... and what does splitting Irena's world into two parallel-realities imply? What does it say about reality itself? Where does reality take place? Shriver accidentally touches very interesting philosophical topics without even realizing... and makes nothing of them. A bit dissapointing.

Off topic: I just realized I sent you quite a large number of mails on the 11th August *LOL*. You obviously didn't read the Alan-Rose-Theatre one. Did you get any of the others?

I copy one with non-personal content here... does this sound familiar? (You must remember the photo) If not... check your mails. :-)

Mail from 11th August:

*huggles*

Not sure about Robyn’s religion (some of his songs suggest he’s a Christian, some suggest he’s Jewish, and so does he when he uses Jewish terms, for example when he says that working with Andy Partridge was his musical "bar mitzvah".

By the way... he performs alternative outside-church weddings... Had I known... I wonder if S. is feeling like marrying me once more? *LOL*

The lay priest / rabbi here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayjuliettebarruel/2690499576/sizes/o/in/set-72157594258530105/

The bridegroom is, it seems, is Collin Maloy (the photo just says “Collin”, but I think that’s him). He’s a musician (“Decembrists”), Robyn’s HUGE fan and greatly influenced by him (oh, well, lets put it that way: He accidentally or deliberately does Robyn-impressions on stage... Robyn doesn’t seem to mind, though. *LOL*)

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Strong? Feminist? Is she for real?

The parallel universe angle could have been really interesting. Irena didn't have any choice! She didn't give herself any. How strong and feminist was that?

Hmmmm...reality seems to take place in Irena's subjective mind. A very small world....which is negative and self punishing with....NO choice. *LOL*

Yes...I think I received all your mails sweety...just been incredibly busy. Can't go to The Rose...no time. Btw...I was confused between the Rose and the Globe when I asked you if you'd been.

Yes...I'm thinking Jewish....but non practicing...perhaps never has done. *shrug* Is that significant for you?

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I fear she is...

*LOL*... as long as you haven't marked me "spam"... *LOL*... oh... you've done so.... *LOL* Ok... ok... I love you, nevertheless. *kick*... erm, I meant... *HUGS*. :-)

I think it is. Weirdly enough it is. (I was baptised Protestant (mum's doing) and brought up Jewish (by Dad, more heritage-wise than religion-wise), married a non-believing Catholic ex-altar-boy *LOL* (with a Jewish great-grandmother, a Protestant mother and a Catholic father). I'm a bit of a religion-drifter, but I'm kind of proud of being technically half-Jewish and spent a lot of time researching Jewish life in Franconia with my Dad (who's the archive keeper in his home-town). Yes, and the Jwewish quarter in Prague had the right "energy"... again, not religion-wise, but culture-wise. Moreover, I'm now moving to Fürth. (Mhm... the English entry doesn't even mention the importance of Jewish life in modern-day-Fürth. There's a big Passover parade in spring, for example.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BCrth

[elle_icit]

*LOL* Of course you will never be marked 'spam' *hopping on one leg* Hugs.

The Jewish quarter of Prague was fab....I could have lived there. But then I'm sure I've been Jewish in another life....or a few other lives. Looking forward to visiting Furth....looks nice.