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August 10, 2003
Entry: "Vacation Over"

My first day back at work went well. Mr. Sarazin's visit went well. :) And both are over. Now is the time to start another book...

I was so impressed by Jeanette Winterson that I think I'm going to jump right into Sexing the Cherry. It's not only that Art and Lies was so good... it had a layer that was full of philosophy and extrordinary ideas, and then a basic story that in the end was pretty... basic. I'm really wondering if she can weave what she's able to do with ideas together with a more compelling punchline of a story.

Or maybe I'm missing entirely what the characters represented in Art and Lies. I read it entirely too fast... which is always what happens when I like something too much... But it was so elegant and sounded so beautiful... I couldn't stop. I read somewhere on her website that she reads her writing out loud as part of her process... and I believe it. And it's the nature of her poetry that makes her ideas, timing, setting, and characters come together so well. Otherwise it would be a big mess. A dense unappealing nightmare actually. But as it is, I love it.