![]() ![]() That is the most inflammatory passage in The Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman, and author Shahrazad Ali wishes the reporter didn’t want to talk about it, not right off the bat. When she crosses this line and becomes viciously insulting it is time for the Blackman to soundly slap her in the mouth. However, if she ignores the authority and superiority of the Blackman, there is a penalty. This does not mean that she needs, or wants, to be battered or beaten to a bloody pulp. Her unbridled tongue is a main reason she cannot get along with the Blackman. ![]() Because it is from that hole, in the lower part of her face, that all her rebellion culminates into words. ![]() …There is never an excuse for ever hitting a Blackwoman anywhere but in the mouth. ![]()
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![]() I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneself on all those scores. ![]() ![]() Portrait of Joan Didion by Mary Lloyd Estrin, 1977Īfter citing a seemingly arbitrary vignette she had found scribbled in an old notebook, Didion asks: Though the essay was originally written nearly half a century ago, the insights at its heart apply to much of our modern record-keeping, from blogging to Twitter to Instagram. From Joan Didion’s 1968 anthology Slouching Towards Bethlehem ( public library) - the same volume that gave us her timeless meditation on self-respect - comes a wonderful essay titled “On Keeping a Notebook,” in which Didion considers precisely that. ![]() As a lover - and keeper - of diaries and notebooks, I find myself returning again and again to the question of what compels us - what propels us - to record our impressions of the present moment in all their fragile subjectivity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this case, Bel goes to play in the snowy garden of her grandmother’s retirement complex and meets a white cat named Snow who belongs to Charlotte, the daughter of the family who owned this manor house 150 years ago. ![]() For a time it’s unclear whether she’s dreaming or really experiencing the history, but at the end there’s some physical token that proves she has been time travelling. ![]() (3.5) My second from Holly Webb, and while I enjoyed it a lot, if not quite as much as Frost, I probably don’t need to read any more by her now because these two were so similar as to reveal a clear formula: a young girl of about nine years old who plays alone (because she’s an only child or left out of her siblings’ games) goes for an outdoor adventure and meets a cute animal who leads her back into the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's illustrated comics and picture books, including for Marvel Comics and Star Wars. 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