You people rule the school. I cannot believe all the great book suggestions you made for the boy. Even though we could choose only one for this particular assignment, oy!, the reading list we have started! He is mighty excited, to say the least.
We went to Barnes and Noble last night, and he chose “The Misfits” for today — and we got him a copy of “The Outsiders”, as well, just for good measure. Goddamn, life is good when you’re 12, and you already know you want to be a writer, and you love love love to read — oh, and your mother has Taco Bell on speed dial. All, hail the mexi melt!
So, thank you to everyone who made suggestions and recommendations; they have all, every one, been duly noted and logged. And now, for your next literary assignment…I need book recs for the 15 year old girl. She is currently reading “The Crucible” for school and “The Lovely Bones” for pleasure — and we are in the process of lining up a reading list for her, as well. What books might an also very bright, culturally sophisticated, belly laughing, somewhat eccentric 15 year old baby goat girl like to read? Dig deep and hit us with your best shot.
Thanks!
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Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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