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Hurray, it's Friday!
1. Valentine's cards have been sent out! We can send mail to Australia and New Zealand again, so *all* my international peeps are getting cards, too. <3
2. I got a sweet Valentine's Day card from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
amejisuto. :) Thank you, friend.
3. I've been reading some stuff.
The Yonder Side of Sass and Texas by Joanna Beth Tweedy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. The sense of place is masterfully evoked here, and the use of language--the rural patois--is absolutely wonderful. The characters are real and interesting, and the way everyone's lives intersect in this small town rings true to me. What also rings true is the way that home is both utterly oppressive and calls undeniably to Sass and Texas.
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The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I'm deeply shocked to discover that I don't so much like Sexton's poetry as a whole as I adore one volume of her poetry: Transformations. Transformations (in which she transforms the beloved Grimms fairytales, most notably, and arguably most successfully, Cinderella) is one of my absolute favorite collections of poems. The rest of it, not so much. I like isolated poems here and there ("Hutch," "Her Kind," and others), but on the whole, I don't care for much of the rest of her poetry. Which totally surprises me because I've spent the last few decades thinking of Sexton as one of my favorite poets, and turns out I only really like a single collection and could do without the rest of it. I'm not exactly sure how that happened. I must have read through this once when I received it as a teen and then only reread the poems from Transformations and the handful of others that get anthologized and that colored my memory of her poetry at large.
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4. I think Anne Sexton invented the fanfic trope Hanahaki Disease in her poem "The Love Plant."
5. Bless Feefers's heart. She had her jaw alignment stuff put in yesterday, and she started the concurrent invisalign treatment. It is A Lot going on in my baby girl's tiny little mouth. But she is handling it very well, and I am very proud of her. She is exceedingly brave, and already getting the hang of this new routine. *smishes her*
2. I got a sweet Valentine's Day card from
amejisuto. :) Thank you, friend.3. I've been reading some stuff.
The Yonder Side of Sass and Texas by Joanna Beth TweedyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. The sense of place is masterfully evoked here, and the use of language--the rural patois--is absolutely wonderful. The characters are real and interesting, and the way everyone's lives intersect in this small town rings true to me. What also rings true is the way that home is both utterly oppressive and calls undeniably to Sass and Texas.
View all my reviews
The Complete Poems by Anne SextonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I'm deeply shocked to discover that I don't so much like Sexton's poetry as a whole as I adore one volume of her poetry: Transformations. Transformations (in which she transforms the beloved Grimms fairytales, most notably, and arguably most successfully, Cinderella) is one of my absolute favorite collections of poems. The rest of it, not so much. I like isolated poems here and there ("Hutch," "Her Kind," and others), but on the whole, I don't care for much of the rest of her poetry. Which totally surprises me because I've spent the last few decades thinking of Sexton as one of my favorite poets, and turns out I only really like a single collection and could do without the rest of it. I'm not exactly sure how that happened. I must have read through this once when I received it as a teen and then only reread the poems from Transformations and the handful of others that get anthologized and that colored my memory of her poetry at large.
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4. I think Anne Sexton invented the fanfic trope Hanahaki Disease in her poem "The Love Plant."
5. Bless Feefers's heart. She had her jaw alignment stuff put in yesterday, and she started the concurrent invisalign treatment. It is A Lot going on in my baby girl's tiny little mouth. But she is handling it very well, and I am very proud of her. She is exceedingly brave, and already getting the hang of this new routine. *smishes her*
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Was there a ban on mail to Australia and New Zealand....?
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Yes, there was! It was very annoying. But it appears to be lifted for letters at least; not sure about packages.
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I sent an Xmas card to my friend in Australia and there were no issues, they didn't say anything about a ban......
Huh.
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"The U.S. Postal Service has TEMPORARILY suspended First Class Package International Service (as of September 3, 2021) and Priority Mail International (as of September 17, 2021)"
I think because i just sent a regular letter, not a package and not priority, that's why.
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