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Women Writers

I have to admit that I thought I was well read. Really well read. Then I tried this out. Turns out I need to get caught up on my reading.

Instructions: Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you have wanted/might like to read. Place question marks by any titles/authors you've never heard of?? Put an asterisk if you've read something else by the same author.

Alcott, Louisa May–Little Women
Allende, Isabel–The House of Spirits
Angelou, Maya–I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
*Atwood, Margaret–Cat's Eye
Austen, Jane–Emma
?Bambara, Toni Cade–Salt Eaters
?Barnes, Djuna–Nightwoodde
Beauvoir, Simone–The Second Sex
Blume, Judy–Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
Burnett, Frances–The Secret Garden (this is only my favorite book in the entire world...)
Bronte, Charlotte–Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily–Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S.–The Good Earth
Byatt, A.S.–Possession
Cather, Willa–My Antonia
Chopin, Kate–The Awakening
Christie, Agatha–Murder on the Orient Express
Cisneros, Sandra–The House on Mango Street
Clinton, Hillary Rodham–Living History
?Cooper, Anna Julia–A Voice From the South
?Danticat, Edwidge–Breath, Eyes, Memory
?Davis, Angela–Women, Culture, and Politics?
?Desai, Anita–Clear Light of Day
*Dickinson, Emily–Collected Poems
Duncan, Lois–I Know What You Did Last Summer
DuMaurier, Daphne–Rebecca
Eliot, George–Middlemarch
?Emecheta, Buchi–Second Class Citizen
?Erdrich, Louise–Tracks
Esquivel, Laura–Like Water for Chocolate
Flagg, Fannie–Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Friedan, Betty–The Feminine Mystique
Frank, Anne–Diary of a Young Girl
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins–The Yellow Wallpaper
?Gordimer, Nadine–July's People
Grafton, Sue–S is for Silence
?Hamilton, Edith–Mythology
Highsmith, Patricia–The Talented Mr. Ripley
hooks, bell–Bone Black
Hurston, Zora Neale–Dust Tracks on the Road
Jacobs, Harriet–Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jackson, Helen Hunt–Ramona
Jackson, Shirley–The Haunting of Hill House
Jong, Erica–Fear of Flying
Keene, Carolyn–The Nancy Drew Mysteries (any of them)
Kidd, Sue Monk–The Secret Life of Bees (This is on my shelf)
Kincaid, Jamaica–Lucy
Kingsolver, Barbara–The Poisonwood Bible
Kingston, Maxine Hong–The Woman Warrior
?Larsen, Nella–Passing
L'Engle, Madeleine–A Wrinkle in Time
*Le Guin, Ursula K.–The Left Hand of Darkness
Lee, Harper–To Kill a Mockingbird
*Lessing, Doris–The Golden Notebook
?Lively, Penelope–Moon Tiger
Lorde, Audre–The Cancer Journals
Martin, Ann M.–The Babysitters Club Series (any of them)
?McCullers, Carson–The Member of the Wedding
McMillan, Terry–Disappearing Acts
Markandaya, Kamala–Nectar in a Sieve (On my shelf)
?Marshall, Paule–Brown Girl, Brownstones
Mitchell, Margaret–Gone with the Wind (I tried to read, got bored...)
Montgomery, Lucy–Anne of Green Gables
?Morgan, Joan–When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
Morrison, Toni–Song of Solomon
?Murasaki, Lady Shikibu–The Tale of Genji
Munro, Alice–Lives of Girls and Women
Murdoch, Iris–Severed Head
*Naylor, Gloria–Mama Day
Niffenegger, Audrey–The Time Traveller's Wife
*Oates, Joyce Carol–We Were the Mulvaneys
O'Connor, Flannery–A Good Man is Hard to Find
Piercy, Marge–Woman on the Edge of Time
Picoult, Jodi–My Sister's Keeper (Been reading it for a while...)
Plath, Sylvia–The Bell Jar
Porter, Katharine Anne–Ship of Fools
Proulx, E. Annie–The Shipping News
Rand, Ayn–The Fountainhead
Ray, Rachel–365: No Repeats (Heck, no, that girl's annoying)
?Rhys, Jean–Wide Sargasso Sea
?Robinson, Marilynne–Housekeeping
?Rocha, Sharon–For Lac
Sebold, Alice–The Lovely Bones
Shelley, Mary–Frankenstein
Smith, Betty–A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Zadie–White Teeth
Spark, Muriel–The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spyri, Johanna–Heidi
Strout, Elizabeth–Amy and Isabelle
*Steel, Danielle–The House
Tan, Amy–The Joy Luck Club
?Tannen, Deborah–You're Wearing That
?Ulrich, Laurel–A Midwife's Tale
?Urquhart, Jane–Away
Walker, Alice–The Temple of My Familiar
Welty, Eudora–One Writer's Beginnings
Wharton, Edith–Age of Innocence
Wilder, Laura Ingalls–Little House in the Big Woods
Wollstonecraft, Mary–A Vindication of the Rights of Women
*Woolf, Virginia–A Room of One's Own
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You're actually not much of a Hipster. Congratulations! You may have Hipster style, but you're healthy, you eat right, you have a decent job you enjoy, your finances are stable, you plan on buying a house (if you don't already own one) and settling down before you're 35, you have friends you like, your friends like you, and you can honestly say you're pretty damn happy. Perhaps you should adopt a Hipster and draw them into your perfect lair . . .

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Flowers (watercolor)

Tree

Study in space

Shell

Balance

"No nice girl"

Hand

Mermaid

Schneewitchen (Snow White)

Rapunzel

Die Gaensemagd (The Goose-Girl): Collage for a fairy tale class

Fantastiques

Bull Market

Bridget 2

Bridget

Self-portrait

Because someone asked me so nicely....

Yoga Sutras

A woman's worth.

Apparently, I am worth $6.92.

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How much are you worth? (After you get your barcode, click on "Scan." Let me know. :)

Fair Isle, fairer than thee!

About a year and half ago, I took a class to learn how to knit fair isle. I stopped knitting this. I picked this up a couple days ago, and picked it up again, and it's looking gooooood. I think it's great. And in the process of showing this off to my brother, he commissioned me to make him a Slytherin scarf. He'll pay me for it! So he's my first scarf customer! Wow!

Red Bracelet

These are images from a bracelet I made for a friend. I have not yet seen said friend yet. But since she's a car girl...cars...and car parts are integral to her bracelet. Also, you can click on the images to see them in a larger size. I just made them smaller so you could see them all without having to scroll down forever.

Sanity

Well, my soul-searching is doing me some good...a break, a breather from things, and have been thinking about my own future. Like what I want to do. I've come to realize over the past three years that i'm both right and left-brained, and I need to nurture both sides of me. Especially since I have been more anxious lately, and it's really my right brain that calms me down, as I'm one of those overly-analytical types. So I did crack last week and was all like, I need to study art. This is what I go through every time I crack. It's not so much the art, per se, or seeing peopel who've studied art and are workign at neat jobs, but it's more about peace of mind. It's also about pushing my artistic abilities to new heights and limits, and to see what i can do. I mean, I've regretted not taking more art, not focusing on my artistry. And I think that's part of the knitting and sewing, and the anxiety and hurt. It's a sense of belonging to a community where I feel like I fit in, and I think I fit in best with creative souls. And the people I hung out with last week--they were happy. And I was like, I want to be sure I'm doing what makes me happy. Even if I do end up working in my field, but work on design and jewelry on the side, and that makes me happy, so be it. If the jewelry thing becomes a career, so be it. I just have to nurture both parts.

So my plan: take a few art classes this fall on Saturdays if I can. Take more next year, too. Perhaps find a part-time job after graduation, and take some art courses, figure out what I want, because I don't want to regret having not taken a chance.

Red purses are hot!

One of my friends requested a red purse. So I made one. I've also made a pink one, but I forgot to take a picture of it before I gave it away. Oh, well. Maybe one day, if I see my friend toting it around, i can get a pic of it with her as the model.

It's in the mail now, on its way to Pennsylvania. I just hope my friend likes it!

But here's the red purse. Next up: this fall-ish color, kind of rosy pink, and a blue one.

Clapoitis

This is from Knitty.com, the stole I've been working on pretty much all summer long. It's coming along, coming along! I just want to finish the damn thing so I can wear it!

It's supposed to be something like 22 inches by 55 inches. This is something I should have read BEFORE I got half way through the project.

Make-It, Take-It

I think I'm skipping SnB tonight. Too much on my mind at the moment. But in the meantime, here are some photos.

The first is a short-row scarf, which I am knitting up, using left-over Lion's Brand wool-ease, since i'm just trying to get rid of that cheap yarn. It actually looks cool with that yarn, to tell the truth!

Need I knit myself a Hogwarts scarf?

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

Personally, I always thought I was more of a Ron Weasley. Big chicken. Sometimes overlooked. Kinda lost sometimes, and really not always so special. But really, it's the big chicken thing, when it comes to spiders, but for me, I guess it would be really big dogs and maybe snakes or something. Ugh. Anyway. Think I'm like Albus Dumbledore? What do you think, people?

scarf thingy.

Okay, first things first. I'm working on a short row scarf (picture coming soon) and a scarf called Clapotis. Some of the other people at SnB are going to be selling some of their scarves and stuff, and I have a couple I could get rid of (knitted, not crazy about, never worn). But I'm all like...just how much do I CHARGE for a scarf? I have no experience in selling hand-made goods. Anyhow.

Reading "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" and loving it so far. I bought it 'cause I've been listening to the broadway music and realized that I really don't have much of a clue when it comes to the story...but so far...it's great. I love Elphaba. Don't like Glinda so much (so far).