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1. OMG, Avatar is so good. I can hardly stand it. So, after we watched the episode where ( ruminating on Azula + misc thoughts )

2.

The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth Century British Working Class Literature by Martha Vicinus

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This was really interesting. I've read the classic Victorian novels written by middle-class writers about the working class (Dickens, Gaskell, Disraeli, etc.), but I've not read literature written by the working class. This consists of a discussion of mostly poetry and song with a handful of novels. Very informative about Chartism and the music hall in particular.

FYI: There is a typographical error repeated throughout the book; in just about every paragraph, there are words smushed together that should have spaces between them and don't.



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3. Fiona has started testing for the gifted program. We went for the first round this morning. The teacher is testing a small group at a time for like an hour over a period of days so they can be socially distanced. Fi wore her little mask my mom made her. *my heart* This is the first time she's gone anywhere since March 15. Part of me is worried that she won't do as well as she would have if they had tested during the school year, but it is what it is.

4. Some poems I liked that I encountered in Women of the Beat Generation:

Helen Adam "Last Words of Her Lover"
Hettie Jones "Welcome to Our Crowd" and "Sonnet"
ruth weiss "For Madeline Gleeson" (reminds me of Atwood's "You Fit Into Me," which is quite possibly the best poem of ever)