Pre-numbered label used for registration.

Release planned for Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at Fellow BookCrosser in Postal release, Postal Release Controlled Releases.

Sending to Antof9 for the Belize project. Thanks for your help :)!

Came by mail from RlyLv2Rd's Divorce is not an option thread. :)

Thanks! I'll be happily releasing these all over (not sure if I'll read first or not) town.

I finally read this one! I was "stuck" in the bedroom one night when my husband had friends over, so when I finished reading the book I was in, I rummaged around in the nightstand until I found this :)

I checked the copyright date on this one, because I felt like it had a very late 70s feel. I'm probably right; it was published in 1983. On the one hand, that made it feel rather cliched to me, but on the other hand, when viewed from an "it was an era" perspective, it was also rather interesting.

I felt sorry for Dawn the vast majority of the book, but at the same time I wanted to tell her, "ASK THE QUESTIONS!" I felt as if she would just man up and ask Vera (or anyone else) the questions that a normal inquisitive person would ask, she would be in a much better place. Of course, that's probably the point of the book.

Without spoiling, the whole vomit thing was ... fascinating (?) once the dots were connected.

This part was really well written and still true today. It makes me think that's partially why this book isn't totally irrelevant because of being so dated -- this writing is still "valid":

"... all the pleasures of my childhood came from this woman I've been avoiding like the plague."

"What kind of plague do you think you're avoiding?"

"Oh, God, I don't know ... the plague of women! It's not a conspiracey, it's a plague. I enjoy women more than I ever did but I'll tell you something, if that's what being a woman is, you can have it!"

"If what's what being a woman is?"

"Being sick and messed up! Being operated on! I know I've been through this before but ... Men don't get sick. Vera was never -- All right, Vera isn't a man, but she's like a man. And look at my mother and father. When someone's sick it's a woman. At least men don't talk about what they have, and it's nothing to do with being a man. They hurt themselves at work or they break a leg or they have a heart attack. Something connected to being human.

That might not make sense to anyone who hasn't read the book, but I really found it interesting.

One odd connection? This book reminded me somewhat of Man Walks into a Room. Not in a plagiarism way, but in a this character doesn't know much about themselves and doesn't seem to want to find out sort of way. It's an odd connection, but maybe others will see it too.

Thanks for sharing this one with me, RlyLv2Rd! I'm trying to decide what to do with it next. To bad I don't go to a counselor -- it's a perfect release for a shrink's office! LOL