Comments on: Ruin, Rebirth, and Red Roses: A Highly Unofficial Review of We Take Me Apart by Molly Gaudry http://ambernoellesparks.com/2009/12/17/ruin-rebirth-and-red-roses-a-highly-unofficial-review-of-we-take-me-apart-by-molly-gaudry/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:38:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MoGa http://ambernoellesparks.com/2009/12/17/ruin-rebirth-and-red-roses-a-highly-unofficial-review-of-we-take-me-apart-by-molly-gaudry/#comment-18 MoGa Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:59:36 +0000 http://ambernoellesparks.com/?p=223#comment-18 "You" is meant to be read as a woman, but the beauty of staying away from personal pronouns is that "you" may be read as male. The real point is it shouldn't matter. Love is love; heartbreak, heartbreak. So, either way, I'm just glad it's being read at all. Thank you, again, for the wonderful and thoughtful review. “You” is meant to be read as a woman, but the beauty of staying away from personal pronouns is that “you” may be read as male. The real point is it shouldn’t matter. Love is love; heartbreak, heartbreak. So, either way, I’m just glad it’s being read at all. Thank you, again, for the wonderful and thoughtful review.

]]> By: anoelle http://ambernoellesparks.com/2009/12/17/ruin-rebirth-and-red-roses-a-highly-unofficial-review-of-we-take-me-apart-by-molly-gaudry/#comment-17 anoelle Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:31:35 +0000 http://ambernoellesparks.com/?p=223#comment-17 Molly, don't worry--I miss writing papers for my literature classes and actually love this kind of thing. I just hope I conveyed enough how much I loved the book. It's exactly my kind of thing: tasty, edible language, fairy tales, wonder and awe, and I just enjoyed the hell out of it. You know, I thought "you" might be she, but then I overthought it and assumed you might have been taking an opposite approach with the Princess and Pea story and the typical fairy tale heroine: playing up the man as more fragile, needy, emotive, etc. Was "you" meant to be a woman? Sort of the three sisters, the moon, the Fates, etc? I wondered, but went with my gut instinct. Which was probably only my gut instinct as a hetero. :) Anyway, thank you for writing this. I've already passed it on to a friend who will enjoy it as much as I did. Molly, don’t worry–I miss writing papers for my literature classes and actually love this kind of thing. I just hope I conveyed enough how much I loved the book. It’s exactly my kind of thing: tasty, edible language, fairy tales, wonder and awe, and I just enjoyed the hell out of it.

You know, I thought “you” might be she, but then I overthought it and assumed you might have been taking an opposite approach with the Princess and Pea story and the typical fairy tale heroine: playing up the man as more fragile, needy, emotive, etc. Was “you” meant to be a woman? Sort of the three sisters, the moon, the Fates, etc? I wondered, but went with my gut instinct. Which was probably only my gut instinct as a hetero. :)

Anyway, thank you for writing this. I’ve already passed it on to a friend who will enjoy it as much as I did.

]]> By: MoGa http://ambernoellesparks.com/2009/12/17/ruin-rebirth-and-red-roses-a-highly-unofficial-review-of-we-take-me-apart-by-molly-gaudry/#comment-16 MoGa Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:44:21 +0000 http://ambernoellesparks.com/?p=223#comment-16 Thank you for taking the time to write this, which, I imagine, must have involved much thought and effort on your part. I am touched and honored (and find it interesting that you interpreted "you" as male, which, who knows, after all, may be). Thank you, again, for the time you took to read and write this. I am grateful. Thank you for taking the time to write this, which, I imagine, must have involved much thought and effort on your part. I am touched and honored (and find it interesting that you interpreted “you” as male, which, who knows, after all, may be). Thank you, again, for the time you took to read and write this. I am grateful.

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