tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post7961909396454233336..comments2024-02-28T05:22:16.853-05:00Comments on I Won't Fear Love: Baren Bitches Book Brigade: Never Let Me GoJuliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745262857388007041noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-73729949144080177432009-03-17T09:28:00.000-04:002009-03-17T09:28:00.000-04:00I read this book a few years ago, and had a simila...I read this book a few years ago, and had a similar reaction. I wanted it to make more sense, and it just doesn't. The big reveal conversation at the end of the book felt particularly Scooby Doo-ish.<BR/><BR/>Thinking back on it, though, I wonder if some of the inconsistencies and vagaries weren't intentional. Maybe the author was trying to evoke this sense of frustration. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure the book is meant to be taken literally, but more metaphorically. What made me want to rip out my hair was that all the clones *knew* their time was limited, and they still were jerks to each other. They still wasted time on personality conflicts, rather than taking advantage of the freedom they were granted between their time as student and their time as donors/carers.<BR/><BR/>But that's true for all of us in some sense, which I think is maybe what the author was trying to get at.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-46503705637130209762009-03-11T22:51:00.000-04:002009-03-11T22:51:00.000-04:00Okay, now you've blown my mind too much and I don'...Okay, now you've blown my mind too much and I don't even know where to begin (the lack of newspaper reporting, how they become infertile, etc). I think I will comment on the idea of all these parallel worlds standing next to one another. I feel like I definitely move in different drops of liquid. These sometimes flow together like attending BlogHer and having people I communicate with online suddenly step into my face-to-face world. But also, the infertility sphere and the parenting sphere and the Jewish sphere, et al. I was holding Tertia's book and my friend started to talk to me about it and I realized how what I take for granted in this world in terms of knowing, my other spheres don't know. And therefore, I feel like there are these parallel structures in everyone's life and those are mirrored somewhat in the structure of the book.Lollipop Goldsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01020874415819057995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-83608065086129260972009-03-11T03:55:00.000-04:002009-03-11T03:55:00.000-04:00I really enjoyed your infertility/donor parallel."...I really enjoyed your infertility/donor parallel.<BR/><BR/>"Who is Kathy speaking to?" I imagined that she was speaking to her carer. She keeps saying, "I don't know how it was where you grew up..." in a way that you wouldn't to someone who grew up in a family. Earlier in the book, before I knew about the donor aspect, I thought she must be speaking to someone else who attended boarding school.Baby Smiling In Back Seathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06483533946303787478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-52913515220627821362009-03-10T11:06:00.000-04:002009-03-10T11:06:00.000-04:00Wow, Julia. I did pick up on the way that "cl...Wow, Julia. I did pick up on the way that "cliques" dominate the book (Hailsham students vs non, donors vs carers, clones vs "normal" people, etc.), but your comments about parallel worlds, & then extending that to the fertile/infertile communities, takes it to a whole different level. <BR/><BR/>The book sure did raise more questions than it answered, didn't it?loribethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09272814565916935113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214358853640360621.post-65093463851159227352009-03-09T23:39:00.000-04:002009-03-09T23:39:00.000-04:00this line really struck me "It is interesting that...this line really struck me "It is interesting that when looking for deferrals, clones only think in terms of the authorities of their world" It reminds me of what children do though, they go to the safe people in their lives. Although the guardians are basically harvesting organs, they are still all the characters know. I did wonder why they didn't find a police man and ask him for help. some of those things bothered me as well.Melis.sahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383636143112620937noreply@blogger.com