For Rouenna
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Journal Entry 2 by Megami at Megami's Unit for a Meetup in Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Friday, January 27, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (1/27/2006 UTC) at Megami's Unit for a Meetup in Darwin, Northern Territory Australia
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Given to AmberC
Given to AmberC
picked off Megami's shelf at the meet-up.
FOR ROUENNA starts comfortably enough, with the narrator, a novelist, receiving a letter from a woman she barely remembers from childhood. This woman, the Rouenna of the title, pressures the narrator to visit her Brooklyn apartment so they can talk, though the narrator fears the intimacy of a face to face meeting. Eventually, though, they meet, becoming friends despite their differences. Their friendship has barely taken root when Rouenna commits suicide in her mother's house in New Jersey. As the narrator tries to come to terms with the loss, she finds herself writing about Rouenna - her difficult childhood in the projects of Staten Island, and, most compellingly, of her time in war-torn Vietnam as a military nurse. The story becomes a powerful, unsettling eulogy not only for Rouenna, but for the innocence America lost during those turbulent times.
The story draws you in slowly, into the lives of Rouenna and the unnamed narrator. I don't know that enjoyed is quite the right word, but I am glad I read this book.
The story draws you in slowly, into the lives of Rouenna and the unnamed narrator. I don't know that enjoyed is quite the right word, but I am glad I read this book.
Released 15 yrs ago (2/10/2009 UTC) at Darwin, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Chosen from the OZ VBB. Enjoy!
Chosen from the OZ VBB. Enjoy!
Thanks! It looks good.
I enjoyed this. It was disjointed and odd, but I like it like that. The characters were all brought to life gradually and the stories of the conflict and of life in the Project were heartbreaking.
Journal Entry 8 by RockDg9 at West Creek Reserve, Alderley Street in Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on Thursday, July 8, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (7/8/2010 UTC) at West Creek Reserve, Alderley Street in Toowoomba, Queensland Australia
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Left on a park bench. 27.