She's a rebel, she's a saint (original) (raw)

Please comment if you'd like me to friend you. If you don't comment and we haven't talked about friending each other elsewhere, I will almost certainly not friend you back. It's just common courtesy to introduce yourself.

If your life is better because:
- you get paid overtime
- you get paid days off
- you have insurance
- you make at least minimum wage
- you don't have to worry about your children having jobs
- you will get medical care if you are hurt at work
- you only work 5 days a week
- you have recourse if you are treated unfairly on the job
- you work in an environment with safety standards

THANK THE UNIONS

Seriously, people. Without unions, without the workers who fought and even died for our rights, we would live in a VERY different world. Even people who are not in unions benefit from the battles that they have fought, and continue to fight, for all of us.

Just did a fairly large cut. Mostly people who didn't seem very interested in my life and people who rarely update or have abandoned their journals. I have no hard feelings against anyone I cut and hope we can interact in the future in shared communities.

If you don't want to be cut, send me a private message. Otherwise, I wish the best for you in the new year.

We have no internet at home right now and probably won't until Saturday. So if I don't respond to posts/do my modly duties in a timely fashion, that's why.

Adult Lit/Non-fiction
1. The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
2. How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table by Russ Parsons
3. Election by Tom Perrotta
4. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund
5. The Women of Magdalene by Rosemary Poole Carter
6. Women and Money by Suze Orman
7. Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic by Robert Lanham
8. Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
9. A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins by Penny Colman
10. Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
11. Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer
12. Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley
13. Desert Children by Waris Dirie
14. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
15. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
16. Sex with Kings: five hundred years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge by Eleanor Herman
17. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges
18. Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day by Lisa Taggart
19. Bonk: the curious coupling of science and sex by Mary Roach
20. You're So Money: Live Rich, Even When You're Not by Farnoosh Torabi
21. Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh
22. [Me of Little Faith](Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture) by Lewis Black
23. The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes and why by Amanda Ripley
24. Final Salute: a story of unfinished lives by Jim Sheeler
25. Little girls in pretty boxes: the making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters by Joan Ryan
26. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
27. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
28. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
29. Logan's Run by William Nolan
30. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
31. Sex With the Queen: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
32. The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
33. He's a Stud, She's a Slut by Jessica Valenti
34. Grave Matters: A journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial by Mark Harris
35. The Republican Playbook by Andy Borowitz
36. Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank
37. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
38. Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet
39. The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own by Nina Garcia
40. I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan Squire
41. Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton
42. The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history by Molly Caldwell Crosby
43. Marriage, a history : from obedience to intimacy or how love conquered marriage by Stephanie Coontz
44. The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
45. Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden
46. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
47. Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

Children's Lit/YA
1. Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
2. Chu Ju's House by Gloria Whelan
3. The Royal Diaries: Mary, Queen of Scots by Kathryn Lasky
4. The Royal Diaries: Kaiulani by Ellen Emerson White
5. A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary Of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917 by Kathryn Lasky
6. Royal Diaries: Eleanor : Crown Jewel of Aquítaíne by Kristiana Gregory
7. All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
8. A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
9. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
10. Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
11. Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853 by Barry Denenberg
12. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Love by Meg Cabot
13. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
14. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot
15. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Training by Meg Cabot
16. The Princess Diaries: The Princess Present by Meg Cabot
17. The Princess Diaries: Party Princess by Meg Cabot
18. The Princess Diaries: Sweet Sixteen Princess by Meg Cabot
19. The Princess Diaries: Valentine Princess by Meg Cabot
20. The Princess Diaries: Princess on the Brink by Meg Cabot
21. The Princess Diaries: Princess Mia by Meg Cabot
22. All American Girl: Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
23. The Princess Diaries: The Princess Project by Meg Cabot

2007 list
2006 list

This shirt is lies, all lies.

Happy third anniversary, Dereke. I love you.

(And this is my personal fuck you to all the people who were so mean-spirited and nasty to us. We're much better off without you.)

We're moving today. It's raining, which we need, but it could have come at a more convenient time. I'm not sure when we'll have internet at our new apartment (sometime this week, probably). I'll be back to work Tuesday, so that's probably the next time I'll be online. If you need to get it touch with me via phone, my number is in the FO entry linked in my userinfo. I finally have a texting plan, so if you text me, I can reply now. :)

Since this is a public entry - if something disastrous has happened in one of the communities I moderate, please email the other mods and I'm sure they'll take care of it.

1. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now by Lynn Peril
2. Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton
3. Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut by Emily White
4. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
5. The Walmart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman
6. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
7. Shady Ladies: Nineteen Surprising and Rebellious American Women by Suzann Ledbetter
8. Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America by Rickie Solinger
9. Misogyny by Jack Holland
10. To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
11. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare in the United States by Rickie Solinger
12. In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation by Andrew Goliszek
13. Much Ado about English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language by Richard Watson Todd
14. I am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility by Trisha Meili
15. What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics And "Bias" in Higher Education by Michael Berube
16. Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley
17. Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want by MP Dunleavey
18. Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block
19. ... and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man by Connie Schultz
20. Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Lives edited by Lori Leibovich
21. Secret Lives Of The First Ladies: What Your Teachers Never Told You About The Women of The White House by Cormac O'Brien
22. The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
23. One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding by Rebecca Mead
24. Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside by Bridget Kinsella
25. The History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom
26. Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
27. God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America by Hanna Rosin
28. The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
29. After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
30. The Book that Changed my Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them edited by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen
31. The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton
32. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
33. A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton
34. The Snake has all the Lines by Jean Kerr
35. The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
36. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
37. Hiroshima by John Hersey
38. Not Just a Pretty Face by Stacy Malkan
39. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
40. The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta

2006 list
101 books list

54. Read 101 books.

STATUS: ongoing (EDITED 7/31/07)

1. A History of the Wife
2. Geisha, A Life
3. High Fidelity
4. Leap of Faith
5. 100 People Who are Screwing up America
6. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
7. Princess Sultana's Circle
8. Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A low culture manifesto
9. Bee Season
10. The W Effect: Bush's War on Women
11. Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
12. The Encyclopedia of Mistresses: An Under the Covers Look at the 'Other Women' of History's Most Influential Men
13. Guilty Pleasures
14. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
15. Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
16. The Laughing Corpse
17. Circus of the Damned
18. The Lunatic Cafe
19. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
20. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
21. Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
22. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
23. The Da Vinci Code
24. The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
25. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves : Women in Classical Antiquity
26. Bloody Bones
27. The Killers Among us
28. Guinea Pig Scientists
29. PostSecret : extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives
30. A Kiss of Shadows
31. A Caress of Twilight
32. Seduced by Moonlight
33. The Giver
34. The Killing Dance
35. Burnt Offerings
36. Blue Moon
37. Gathering Blue
38. Messenger
39. How The Pro-choice Movement Saved America: freedom, politics, and the war on sex
40. Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century
41. A Stroke of Midnight
42. Obsidian Butterfly
43. Narcissus in Chains
44. Cerulean Sins
45. Nickel and Dimed
46. Incubus Dreams
47. Micah
48. Danse Macabre
49. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
50. Lucky: A Memoir
51. A Mighty Heart
52. The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception
53. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
54. Tabloid Love
55. Shopaholic and Sister
56. The Abortionist's Daughter
57. Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
58. Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America by Dan Savage
59. Shopgirl by Steve Martin
60. Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
61. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque
62. The Washingtonienne by Jessica Cutler
63. Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
64. Ice Cream: The Delicious History by Marilyn Powell
65. Theology of the Body for Beginners by Christopher West
66. Brainless: the lies and lunacy of Ann Coulter by Joe Maguire
67. Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons by Lynn Peril
68. Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg
69. When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Laden by Bill Maher
70. On a Pale Horse
71. The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat
72. Beauty's Punishment
73. Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
74. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now by Lynn Peril
75. Mistral's Kiss
76. Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut
77. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
78. The Walmart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy
79. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
80. Shady Ladies: Nineteen Surprising and Rebellious American Women
81. Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America
82. Misogyny
83. To the Scaffold The Life of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
84. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare in the United States
85. In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation
86. Much Ado about English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language
87. I am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility
88. What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics And "Bias" in Higher Education
89. Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-raphaelites
90. Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want
91. Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
92. ... and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man