5 comments about The Truth Comes Out.

1. Nancy claims to have been called by God to be a link between Christians and homosexuals. She pictures a sad little groups of homosexuals on one side of the Grand Canyon and the everyone else (very large group) on the other side yelling taunts. She sees herself as bravely stepping out into the chasm between the two groups. She does not even acknowledge the millions of Christians who would rather socialize and attend church with openly gay couples than with those on her side of the canyon.
   
   Yes she lost a husband to AIDS and she lost a son in a car crash. So maybe we don't want to judge her too harshly. That does not mean that we allow her to get away with claiming as she does in this book that "scientists" have determined homosexuality is caused by parental neglect and abuse. (Are these the same "scientists" who have determined that Noah brought baby dinosaurs on his ark, because the bigger dinosaurs would not fit?) Why is it that she wants to believe that there is absolutely no biological component to homosexuality? Because she wants to believe that homosexuality is a sin. For her God does not hardwire sin into his creation, so she wants homosexuality to be caused by persons who sinned not part of God's creation.
   
   Also, it is clear to me in this book that she has not been properly trained in psychotherapy. She actually tells a woman to wait for her gay husband to come home, because she knew someone else whose husband returned after a long wait. She is called Dr. Heche on the 700 Club Web site. Her doctorate is in pastoral counseling.
   
   Well, many on the Christian right like to hear what she has to say and pay her good money to say it. How nice to be called by God to make money.



2. Nancy Heche is a very needy woman, as self-described in her book. In her isolated little evangelical "Come to Jesus" world she knows nothing of organizations such as PFLAG [Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays]. PFLAG is a national organization with local chapters and has been around since the 1970s with a significant membership. I know, for instance, that PFLAG has numerous chapters in Nancy's own Greater Chicago area.
   
   Nancy's book takes a particular evangelical view of gays and lesbians. It is clear that she knows little of the contemporary scholarship about sexual orientation. Sexual orientation was removed as a dysfunctional category by psychologists during the 1970s. You wouldn't know that from her book. Progressive evangelials such as Hope College professor and psychologist David Meyers support marriage equality for same-sex couples and he offers a much more informed and helpful book about gays and lesbians in his volume titled What God Has Joined Together.
   
   Nancy's book cover quotes come from reparative therapy organizations such as Exodus. These sorts of James Dobson efforts are shameful and not effective. Nancy even describes on page 37 of her book how having a "bum" for a father can create a classic model to turn the son into a homosexual. Nancy is obviously stuck in some pre-1950s world.
   
   Her views and book are all the sadder as she claims to be a therapist.



3. This is the most honest book by a Christian I have ever read. I love it. I love the bold, obvious pain that comes across in the prose. I love the story of someone who has suffered more than I --- and lived to tell about it, and I love her anger - because who wouldn't be angry. This book is going to help a lot of families and I, for one, am grateful it was written. Out of Nancy Heche's pain, comes gain - in comfort of others.



4. Doctor Nancy Heche, is a great Christian lady. She is all about the love and respect for any creature on this earth. Her book is well written and is exactly what people need to read who struggle with anything. I read this book because i was challenged by the author herself, and i was so very happy with the results.
   The people who say this is all about her and her problems. Certain issues that were not brought up in her book like the "abuse on her daughter Anne or her father's abuse on Anne", only Anne, that parent, and God know waht happened if anything. It was noy include in my opinion because maybe it didnt happen and i know if it was true it was not added because she was writting a book about her change of heart.
   
   FYI, everyone is entitled to writing their testimony anway they want. Nanct has every right to share however much or little as she wants about her life story. She is a great lady who brought a book in my opinion about if you have hope,love, prayer, braveness, and courage God will take you in the right direction.
   
   I love this book and encourage anyone to read.
   Remember it is about how her heart changes through her life's up's and downs



5. I do not know Nancy or Anne Heche or anyone in their families. I do know many wonderful people who are homosexual and sadly I've heard a lot of fundamentalist Christians spew a lot of hate towards those in the gay lifestyle when discussing this issue. This book goes a long way towards encouraging people to act with love and respect regardless of your differences and that can be beneficial in many areas of society, not simply those with different views on homosexuality. I found it to be well written, and her voice to be soft and gentle. This could be a model for many.

5 comments about Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be.

1. This book is sooo cute! I've never been pregnant,but now I know what to expect if it ever happens. I like how the other was so frank and honest. She didn't claim to have a perfect pregnancy-she still had work,friends, and the fiance to deal with. I let a co-worker who is in her first trimester borrow it, and she loved it.



2. Eeek gads, I am so sick of these chick lit "heroines" all being a slight variation of the same woman. They all have loads of time to meet all of their fabulous friends for girl talk over red wine, all being fabulously dressed and fabulously "hip." Oh, but before you think they are just your typical modern gal, they all have these little "quirks" that make them so absolutely adorable to the opposite sex. Gag me.
   
   The only difference with THIS heroine is, she gets knocked up. She drunkenly begs her fiance to.....stay inside, and bang!--she's with child. So, we're supposed to think that accidentally getting preggers at the age of 30, while drunk, and then oh-so-cutely being all "quirky" about how un-motherly she is, makes her this hip gal that we're supposed to regard as cool....and "quirky." Uh huh.
   
   I will wait for the day when a woman actually writes about a heroine who's responsible, truly quirky, and not just pretending to be "quirky", and does more with her life than hang out at uber-cool bars drinking red wine with her couture-dressed friends, obsessing about why this guy doesn't like her or about how she needs to stay fitting into those size 2's. How's THAT for quirkiness??



3. I bought this book after reading the first couple of pages thinking "oh, a good story about how a child changes someone's life for the positive". Whatever!! I am trying to conceive and I was looking for a feel good funny book about being pregnant--this is not it. This woman is so selfish and I cannot stand it. Throughout the whole book it was all about vanity instead of the joy of welcoming a new life into the world. If you are that kind of person, then this is your book. It is not a good book for those of us who view pregnancy and parenting as a gift and a privelage.



4. I thought this would be a funny book to get my wife as we discussed kids. It just depressed her and she couldn't even finish it.



5. This book is SO funny - I am 7 mos. pregnant with child #2 and was looking for a humorous novel to read. The people that gave this book poor reviews obviously did not read the back cover - it gives you a good idea what the book is about & makes it very clear that this is not a "what to expect when you're expecting" type novel. I would pair it up with the Jenny McCarthy books but fictional. Def. a good laugh in store when reading this....especially if you already have children & can relate to some of this! :) Enjoy!

5 comments about Confessions Of an Art Addict.

1. Peggy was a trip. She also apparently had no editor, or so it seems, which adds to the air of entitlement and oblique charm that permeates this book. Her accounts are interesting historically, though PG's slant on history is sometimes its own beast. This is a quick read and some of her observations will make you laugh out loud ("I was worried about my virginity--I was twenty-three and I found it burdensome..."), while others are chilling, especially the question of which Jews she deemed worthy of her efforts to help them get to the States. This may be more entertaining than informative, but it's both.



2. Here's the story of a woman that knew them all, felt the earth move under her feet with many of them, and bought their art for pretty much nothing. She recognized them when they were starting, and this makes her a Princess. This book is her equivalent to Gore Vidal's "Palimpsest" and Lillian Hellman's "Pentimento". This is one of those books that almost transports you to a long gone era, and makes you wish you could have been there to see it all.



3. Undoubtedly, Miss Guggenheim led a colourful and interesting life. She had either great artistic insight and intigrity or a bratish desire to boost of her wealth.
   I didn't reach a conclusion having read this book, but then maybe she was doing a bit of both and wanted to keep us guessing? I found the book enormously entertaining and informative if a little disrespectful of it's subject.
   One cannot help but to consider that this disrespect and the virtual anonymous space she occupies in history, might be very different had she been Peter and not Peggy.
   A great read for modern art lovers, a fairly good one for anyone else.
   Though it cannot be helped nor altered, it is a book very heavy on characters, plot, and at times, weighty information; which can be very offputting and confusing.



4. Guggenheim doesn't seem to gilt her "Confessions" in velvet (or gold); she comes across as an honest soul wanting to relate her experiences--an influences--in the art world. Some of the things mentioned are her childhood, her marriages, Max Ernst, Brancusi, Kandinsky, Pollock, and Motherwell (to name but a few). Worth a read... and another read.



5. I became curious about Peggy Guggenheim, when last year, I visited her former home - Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. Now a beautiful and exciting museum, made up of a great collection of paintings and sculptures.
   I was very impressed by the famous artists I found there - Dali, Picasso, Max Ernst, Brancusi are just a few names. So I thought that such a woman must have had an interesting life.
   
   But I have to say that the autobigraphy she wrote has no literary value whatsoever. Instead, it is a very honest, uninhibited story of a life dedicated to collecting pieces of art and their authors. Her motto was "buy one paiting per day" and she got much of the fame for her many affairs with artists. However, the efforts she made to promote XXth century art, by organizing exhibitions and art galleries can only be laudable.
   
   A definite non conformist, she decided to quit college and left for Europe, where most of the American literary "nomads" of the time were going. Bohemian life style suited her perfectly. The vivid literary and artistic life in London and Paris, made her fall in love with these places.
   
   I can only say "chapeau" to such a woman who was neither an artist, nor a critic, but loved art and artists, and who spent all her fortune to create what is today the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century.
   
   The story flows nicely and I also got the chance to find out a lot of interesting details about famous artists. The book can only be a pleasant and light reading on an intercontinental flight or on your coming soon vacation.

5 comments about My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook).

1. This is a serious and personal literary study of Dickinson's work by a scholar and fellow poet who appreciates both the art and the attitude of one of her American literary forebears.

   Howe points out how Dickinson's poetry has been overlooked in light of her character and biography. It seems that in the 19th century, it was remarkable for a woman to be a poet at all, let alone write original, rebellious, and quite modern poetry. Hence, the work itself, though enjoyed by schoolchildren all over America, has been little understood.

   Delving into Dickinson's reading lists, her notes and letters, and analyzing a few poems, Howe explores the workings of an intricate mind. She uncovers connections between Dickinson and the Brownings, the Brontes, and James Fenimore Cooper, and she shows how seemingly submissive, soft spoken poetic lines are actually rebellious and even at times angry. What Howe does not do is confuse the image of "The Belle of Amhearst" with the vital workings of the mind of this remarkable woman.

   This book is an enjoyable read filled with Howe's admiration for her artistic predecessor and written in straightforward language, not literary jargon--a tribute from one poet to another. For anyone who enjoys Emily Dickinson's poetry, it is not to be missed.




2. I was tempted to give it a lower score, but that wouldn't be due to its merits; it wouldn't be fair. See, this book is pretty much average. There are dozens of books on Dickinson that are more insightful, balanced, and intelligent--but wherever you meet the adepts of certain poetry schools, you hear things like "This is the best book on Dickinson ever." It's truly remarkable to hear this, since none of these people have ever actually read any other books on Dickinson; they're acolytes of the witless schools of poetry called L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e, which means they exalt their own. Be assured, anyone who gives high praise to this fiercely unexceptional book just doesn't know all the other Dickinson books that are so much more stimulating.



3. This book does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured in their conception of poetry. This is more personal than a biography in that it is a writer's concern with Dickinson's place in history and what she was trying to do with her poetry. Howe does a wonderful job of trying to get into the poems through playing with language. It's a place to meet Dickinson at as she was a lover of games and words.



4. This book is not for the faint of intellect. It is a challenging book for most readers, I believe. Ms. Howe takes you on a poetic journey well worth taking.



5. I have been pretty much obsessed with Emily Dickinson since 1980, and have enjoyed reading many treatments of her life and her poems, while enduring many other books about her. She is quite a mystery, and shall always remain so, becoming the kind of woman and poet that each generation seems to need. I did not like this author's prose style, which seemed to me to have many sentence fragments and many abrupt transitions which did not seem logical. However, it does contain one of the best meditations on Emily's literary and theological influences, including the preacher Jonathan Edwards, and the Brownings, and the Brontes, and Shakespeare. For that reason, it is worth reading if you care about the Belle of Amherst at all. I found myself drawn to her poetry from high school on, but over the decades, becoming much more fascinated with her life choices and experiences. We will never know for sure how many poems are autobiographical, how many actually describe her take on the experiences of her small but intense social circle, and how many are pure fiction. What an impact she has made on the literary world, by living the life of a fairly affluent New England spinster who did not get out much. That is endlessly fascinating to me. Unfortunately it is not the thrust of this volume. My recommendation is to start with Richard Sewell's huge biography of Emily from the 1970's. It covers the life AND the poetry in a reasonable and accessible manner. Some think Emily a secular nun, some think her a deeply closeted lesbian and/or incest victim, some feel she had many love affairs but was discrete about them. Some think her insane, some believe her to be the sanest of us all. Some find her an early feminist, and others see her as an oppressed woman. This book is one fellow female poet's appreciation of Emily's talents and circumstances. Wait another year and another scholar will present a different view. Emily left us 1,776 poems, give or take a few hidden in the text of letters, and someday there will be 1,776 books about her.

4 comments about Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.).

1. Magoffin was a name familiar to the Mexicans who had trading relations with Susan's husband for years before he married her and took her with him from the states on an expedition to Chihuahua, Mexico. She kept a diary from which she drew her information for the only book I know written by a woman, young and pregnant, whose fate it was to die in her 26th year, at home. Accounts from her perspective at such a crucial time in relations between the United States and Mexico, in a venacular peculiarly her own, make her work one of considerable importance to the serious student of the time. Revealing also are individual encounters with men, some from her own country, and her opinion of Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, commander of the U.S. Army of the West stationed in Sante Fe. Susan was a young lady of class the exercise of which makes the reader proud, and whose elegance charmed all who came to know her.



2. 
   Many journals of travelers along the Santa Fe (and Oregon and California) Trail have been published, but Susan Magoffin's ranks among the best of them. Susan Magoffin was born of a wealthy family in Kentucky and had recently married the successful Santa Fe trader Samuel Magoffin. They had spent six months on a honeymoon trip to New York and Philadelphia (about which Susan also kept a journal, though to my knowledge it has not been published), and now, two months after their return to Independence, Missouri, she was to accompany her husband on a caravan transporting goods along the Santa Fe Trail to northern Mexico. She was 18 years old.
   
   Magoffin is as charming as any 18 year old could be, and it's a joy for the reader to share her sense of adventure. She is obviously having the time of her life, despite the inconveniences of broken wagon bows and stormy weather. We also get a view of what life was like for typical travelers on the trail. There is also intrigue to a degree: Samuel's older brother James was on a mission for President Polk preceding Stephen Kearny's troops during the initial stages of the Mexican War, and news about James enters the journal at certain points, including once where he was robbed by the Apaches but somehow escaped with his life. After the trading caravan reached Santa Fe, the Magoffins contined on into Mexico, spending time at Chihuahua. The journal ends on September 8, 1847, and does not include her contracting yellow fever at Matamoras where she also gave birth to a son (he died a few days later). The couple then sailed across the Gulf of Mexico to the Mississippi River and to Susan's family in Kentucky. (Susan would live only another eight years, dying of childbirth at age 27.)
   
   It's a wonderful first-hand account. My only complaint is that I wish editor Stella Drumm had identified locations (camping sites, geographic sites, etc.) mentioned by Magoffin in the journal. Other than that, it's a chronicle that can be read often and always seem fresh and exciting. A must-read record of an important and lively adventure.



3. I am an author. I am writing a novel based on my grandmother's life. I'm using this book as a guide to writing her story. She was born in 1863 in Clinton, Iowa and traveled west. The route she took is not know but this book gives a vivid account of the trail and its tribulations and high points.



4. It is with some awe in my own breast that I write a review for this remarkable little book, which is a "Historical Diary" and therefore of importance to those who would study history from the human element rather than strictly through footnotes. I offer a quote taken from her that struck me as one of the most unique I have heard uttered - flowing from the mind through the pen and on to posterity from of one of the Pioneers; the raw honesty springing from the personal epic she never designed for others other than family to ever see:
   
   "There is such Independence, so much free, uncontaminated air, which impregnates the mind, the feelings, nay, every thought, with purity. I breathe free without that oppression and uneasiness felt in the gossiping circles felt in the settled home."
   
   The writer is not polished; but her work was never intended to be published. What makes it so intriguing is that she managed to capture the moment, the time, complete with names, descriptions of the country and the peoples as she was thoughtfully living it, something most of us would either not think of doing, or be distracted in the monumental tasks of everyday work in such an environment. Which brings me to the crux of the matter in a hurry: this woman, though very young, was educated, had married a mature, much older man man who had a thriving, though fraught with danger Trade business established on the fringes of the frontiers. She was pampered throughout the journey; yet never seemed to take it for granted. As a result, she could write enthusiastically of events and gather wildflowers at will, almost as a scientific mode arising unintentioned from the moment; this free, unencumbered freedom from heavy responsibility obviously was one of the things that allowed her to devote her time, energy and full attention to matters of the day that were happening around her, while her servants did the mundane work. This alertness is felt throughout the book, even in the midst of the terror of Mexican and Indian attacks that came within miles of their supply train. I don't know how much of this she went back and wrote with a steadier hand, but it appears that she was in full self-control at all times, even during these times of high stress.
   
   Her devotion to her husband is genuine, and is felt in a way much different than many diaries I have read. It seems as though their union was one of love, companionship; yet comprised of a strong sense of individualism, another idea that was rare within that era of female domination. She describes the grass, the cold, sweet limestone water, the suffering of the animals when lack of feed and water arose - it made no difference - the wagons must travel on.
   
   In short, she wrote what is possibly one of the most accurate, historical accountings, unembellished of the Santa Fe Trail at that time simply because she didn't know she was doing it.
   
   If you love old Southwest history, American Frontier History of any kind, you will enjoy this book.

5 comments about Having Faith.

1. This book is excellent. Well written, entertaining, and exceedingly well-researched. If you read only one book before becoming pregnant, this is the ONE. It's also great for learning about the neonatal effects of environmental contaminants to which we are all exposed. It's a little scary, but honest, and you'll be wiser for having read it. I really cannot say enough good things about this book. Definitely a favorite, and definitely a MUST READ!



2. This book is one of the most informative books you will read about pregnancy and the early months of your baby's life and not with the information that you will find in your other books. Instead this book begins to unravel the mysteries of the womb and the world while captivating all of the magic. The author guides you through information that is sometimes scary, sometimes ecstatic and in a lesser writer's hands might be overwhelming, but instead is inspirational. Beautifully written--you won't be able to put it down!



3. I loved this story, both as a scientific narrative and a touching personal story. I'm thinking about pregnancy, and this book awakened me to many of the dangers of toxins in the environment I hadn't even contemplated before. I'm so glad that Steingraber told the full story of fish in the diets of pregnant women, for example: that a food with such healthy fats and potential for fetal brain development has instead been rendered toxic by not just mercury pollution, but POPs like DDT as well. And anyone who wants to breastfeed should be aware of how toxins are magnified not just over the course of fetal development, but within the content of mother's milk as well. Steingraber seeks to educate us not to make us take action indiviually, but collectively: healthy food and a healthy environment should be the right of every pregnant woman, mother, father and child. It should be ours for the taking, because we adults deserve the right to have children, and those children deserve the healthiest world possible, starting in the microcosm of the womb. As an adopted child, a pregnant woman, a nursing mother and a biologist, Steingraber tells every woman's story of conception and birth to inspire all humans with a vision of taking action to create a healthier world. It's a lovely telling that everyone - not just mothers-to-be - should read.



4. This book is FASCINATING. If you pick it up you won't put it down. Everyone should read this book, but especially those considering having children. (I do not recommend this book to pregnant women, it could be very upsetting)
   
   The book is beautifully written, personal, scientific, and life changing. I particularly appreciate the author's perspective that the onis to protect children from toxic chemicals that cause birth defects should be societal, not personal. It is insane that we have accepted that due to mercury pollution as a result of coal burning women and children should have to stop eating nutritious fish.



5. This book starts out as very scientific and a bit dull, but picks up and keeps you reading. I admire the author for doing so much detailed research and yet being very happy and optimistic towards her own childbearing. An inspirational and eye-opening book that I would recommend to all my friends, especially young women.

No comments about Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution.

3 comments about A Romantic Education.

1. I first read Patricia Hampl's I Could Tell You Stories when I took a 1st person essay writing class, and all of us in the class became instant fans. Her book provoked endless discussions about the reliability (or Unreliability) of memory and the role it plays in memoir writing. Hampl's A Romantic Education allows us to continue following her down her chosen path as she returns to Prague in search of her heritage during the gray pall of socialism. This edition of A Romantic Education is a reissue following the Velvet Revolution and is full of richly nuanced detail that we have come to expect from Hampl. It's an elegant piece of writing that allows us to taste and dabble in the trickling stream of history running beneath the surface of the everlasting riddle of personal memory.



2. Elegant, meditative, and special, Patrica Hampl's memoir of growing up in St. Paul and visiting her ancestral home of Prague deservedly won her a Macarthur genius grant, and remains a classic of its genre. When it was published in the early 80s, the gorgeous Bohemian captial of Prague was sheltered from the American line of vision by the Iron Curtain, and much less familiar to American readers than it is today; Hampl's book details her trip in the 70s to that loveliest of cities to visit her family's origins and learn something about her place in the world. But the book is also a beautiful meditation on another exceptionally romantic, and often still neglected, city, Hampl's hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota. Stunningly situated on the high bluffs overlooking a chasmic portion of the Mississippi, the home of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Empire Builder James J. Hill, St. Paul has declined in cultural significance over the decades, overshadowed by its younger and more prosperous twin city across the river. But Hampl lovingly evokes what it was like to live in this atmospheric city of decaying Victorian mansions overlooking the downtown from the heights of Summit Avenue, both as a grandchild of Czech immigrants working as servants for the enmansed and as a young woman striking out as a student and a writer. It's an unusual, romantically-staurated memoir.



3. Being of eastern European descent, I found Hampl's book revealing and intriguing as it spoke of what my grandparents often alluded to when referring to "the old country."
   I felt myself travelling with her, trying to find out something, anything, about my roots.

4 comments about Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937.

1. As follower of Anais' Diaries (expurgated or not) and her novels I would like to express my admiration and my curiosity for her amazing literature and her rare personality, motivated again by "Fire". I believe that Anais was able to enjoy sex simultaneously with several men, each one of them however, playing an appropriate , no transferable, role: Hugh (husband),Joaquin Nin (father-lover),Eduardo Sanchez (cousin-brother), Henry Miller (friend-lover), Gonzalo More (lover-friend) and others. Occidental society usually attribute this promiscuous behavior only to men.As Anais shows, this may happen also among ladies, perhaps more often than accepted . Indeed, these "faults" may be heavily damned and punished by society when perpetrated by ladies. Probably Anais was the first woman , brave and courageous enough , to describe her own experiences and feelings about eroticism and sensuality written from a female point of view. Actually, looking at her inner mirror she describes herself with delicacy , ever avoiding disgusting pornography. I believe that Anais spent her life searching a Big One Love . As a result she found many "Love" and many Lovers . The sum of them never reached totality. Her Love was her fantasy and her invention, hence endless and inaccessible. On the other hand, in this and other books Anais masterly present unknown, almost domestic features and characteristic of the personality of several men and ladies who were outstanding representatives in art, literature, theatre, politics as Neruda, Alberti, Dali, Allendy, Rank, Gore and others.



2. Anais Nin was raised a devout Catholic and to earn her family's love she was expected to be demure, self-sacrificing, hard-working, and chaste. When her father abandoned the family she assumed, as children sometimes do, that he had left because she wasn't "good" enough. She played the role of "good girl" for twenty years in response. Then all hell broke loose.

   What I believe is different about FIRE is that it reveals Anais's explorations and experiementation with her inner "bad girl" in a way that she had only just begun in HENRY AND JUNE and INCEST. In it she is still married to Hugh and involved with Henry Miller, but in FIRE she has a relationship with the famous analyst Otto Rank that takes some treacherous twists and turns. Her writing is as wonderful as ever. For the Nin fan, this diary is yet another must-read.




3. "This is not a lie. I was starting to tell lies and struck a truth! Very often I tell lies that are deeply true."
   -Anais Nin, January 17, 1937

   Diary opening with a visit to New York accompanying Dr Otto Rank. Searches for release from Rank. Back to Paris, Henry, Hugh, and to find Gonzalo More. Desriptions of interior worlds built for Hugh, Gonzalo, and Henry. Beautiful. Houseboat on the Seine, "Nanankepichu", Villa Seurat, Louveciennes.




4. This book is not as compelling as "Incest", but it's still Anais: still burning, still feeling, still wholly human, with all flaws and wishy-washiness included. But again, I warn away people who may not be down with heavily sexual content. If you are, though...

No comments about The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2: 1920-1924.