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NormaDesmond
05/16/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Okay, I totally thought this was a DIFFERENT book that I stole off my parents' shelves, I'm terribly with remembering names. Which brings me to the point - at some point in high school I read a book from this same era, but at one point it ends up centering on four post-collegiate women living together in the same house. I remember it was a good book, but here is the part that really stuck in my head - at one point one of the women is using a vibrator, but one of the old school plug into the wall kinds, and she electrocutes herself. But I can't remember what book it is! Can someone tell me?! This clearly affected me as a kid, and I would looooove to know what author I had to thank for inflicting this terror upon me. I wonder if it was Judy Blume...
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midwesternmom
05/16/09

@NormaDesmond: That did happen in this book, to Laverne, while Ginny was living on the commune. It is how she met her future husband the fireman.
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whynotshesaid
05/16/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
I totally just PaperbackSwapped this shit. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
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Tart of Darkness
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Her book "Bedrock" is pretty good, too. NY liberal, open-hearted mostly married woman wants to escape the rat race and buys falling down house in small town. The guys next door skin things for a living. The beautiful hill behind her house, obscured by snow when she bought it, turns out to be the previous owner's trash heap.

Very funny and sly. And, yes, there's a lesbian commune out in the woods!
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emilyanne
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
and one final point - it has a chapter called Blue Balls in Bibleland, how can you not love that...
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emilyanne
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Oh and also Lizzie, I too loved Rona Jaffe, particularly Class Reunion - maybe these books got more play in the UK - i don't know but I read both Kinflicks and Class Reunion at the same time when I was 14.
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emilyanne
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
oh wow this book totally transfixed me at 14 years old. It was also so American and odd to me, growing up in England. I loved it. I still reread it sometimes and it still makes me laugh.
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jenvegas
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
I have read this book so many times the cover wore off. I am super excited to know that someone else, somewhere has read it too!!
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midwesternmom
05/15/09

@jenvegas: Did you read Original Sins? I still love to read it, concentrating on a different narrator each time.
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jrhys
05/17/09

@jenvegas: My mom had this, right next to her paperback copy of "How to Develop your ESP Powers" but I never got into it. Now I MUST read it.... AND ----LIZZY! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO "DRY HUSTLE"!!!!
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squirrelcop
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Great to have you back, Lizzie! I will try to find a copy of this as I can't believe I missed it.

Your mention of her character playing football reminded me of a ridiculously named series of books I read in middle school or so by R.R. Knudson: Zanbanger, Zanballer and Zanboomer [www.amazon.com]

I thought an Afterschool Special-type movie had been made of Zanballer (the football one), but apparently it is some other random movie I had on the fringes of my memory starring Helen Hunt as a renegade girl football player: [www.imdb.com] .

Whew, thanks for letting me clear out SOME of my brain detritus.
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midwesternmom
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
I used to make my boyfriends read this book so they could understand just how stifling small town high school could be. Alther hit all the dating rituals dead on.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Wasn't that Sixteen Candles? The flower wreath and Jake Ryan? Yeah?
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
05/15/09

@..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: Sorry to nitpick but that is in my top five. AWESOME. Plus Jake Ryan was sooooo hottttt.
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rocknrollunicorn
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Gonna have to read this since I loved books like Wifey and The Women's Room. Did you read any Norma Klein? That's like Shelf Pleasuring meets Fine Lines. Loved her stuff.
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girl.of.your.dreams
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Ooh, this sounds fantastic. I'll have to check it out.

And The Women's Room is one of my favorite books. You can find 50 cent copies at most used bookstores - I try to give it to as many people as possible. It's epic.
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rocknrollunicorn
05/15/09

@girl.of.your.dreams: I need to re-read that one. Luckily I got a used copy for a couple bucks online; can't find the first one I had.
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Leela Is an Amazon
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Lizzie, the Molly Ringwald movie you're thinking of is Sixteen Candles, not Pretty in Pink. They all kind of blur together into one big John Hughes mush after a few decades.
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sequined
05/15/09

@Leela Is an Amazon: They don't blur together when Jake Ryan is and always has been the only man you could ever love.

Not that that's, uh, true for me. Or anything. Such as.
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J.D.Regent
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Aw man I gotta get it for my mother in law. She owns everything Marge Piercy has ever written.
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FashionShowAtLunch
05/15/09

In reply to Kinflicks: Coming To Rest
Wifey! That was my first, um.... yeah.
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