Bringing it back

hey guys!

I will have time to read this summer--anybody want to do book club style?

or just give me suggestions of books to read?

-Mary

Ideas?

What's next on our reading list?

What men want

I've always wondered what it would be like to write a book from a woman's perspective. I honestly don't think I could do it without being extraordinarily self-conscious. Sara Gruen does a fine job of opposite-sex storytelling, but it's interesting to note what Sara puts into Jacob's head to make him a man. Most of Jacob's thoughts that are stereotypically masculine are his sexual thoughts. Even as an old man he longs for one last roll in the hay.... He notices the bosoms of his nurse and talks about getting a boner in the shower with a nurse there watching. Outside of this, I think Jacob is oddly feminine. He is very non-confrontational, especially when August lets him get bitten by the toothless lion, he storms away (which is how my mom and various ex-girlfriends would always handle confrontation). Also his initial relationship with Kinko is weirdly feminine, how he goes through his books to try and figure his roomie out. Just seemed like something a freshman girl would do when her roommate was out of the room... Maybe I'm confusing his youthful innocence with femininity, but what did ya'll think?

Oh yeah, and I picture August as being Billy Zane from Titanic.

Yay book club!