books I have read so far this summer

My name is Branwyn. There is absolutely no reason for you to be here. I am nonetheless grateful that you are. It is my hope that this website will cause you to love me. Please do so.

Shakespeare's Kings John Julius Norwich Sexual Personae Camille Paglia The Book of J Harold Bloom The Turn of the Screw Henry James Lemony Snickett: The Unauthorized Autobiography Fortune's Daughter Alice Hoffman Glory In Death J.D. Robb Illumination Night Alice Hoffman Seduction In Death J.D. Robb Ender's Game Orson Soctt Card Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe A Moment's Liberty: The Abridged Diary of Virginia Woolf currently reading: Orlando Virginia Woolf as of 7 June 2002

quotes

"oh it was great. i had a breakdown. it was everything therapy should be." jenni giles

"And so we started to learn about their lives--coming to hold collective memories of times we hadn't experienced, we felt the imprisonment of being a girl. . .  they way it made your mind active and dream and how you ended up knowing what colors run together. We knew that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understand love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. We knew that they knew everything about us-- and that we couldn't fathom them at all..." THE VIRGIN SUICIDES

How to explain to this simple man, how to explain. There is something broken inside of me. I cannot dance, live, love as easily as others. Surely enough, if we traveled around the world I would break my lef somewhere. Because this inner break is invisible and unconvincing to others I would not rest until I had broken something for everyone to see, to understand. How to explain to this simple, I could not dance continuously with success, without breaking. I am the dancer who falls, always, into traps of depression, breaking my heart and my body at almost every turn, lising my tempo and my lightness, falling out of groups, out of grace, out of perfection. There is too often something wrong, something you cannot help me with... Anais Nin, CHILDREN OF THE ALBATROSS

Meet the Organization of Creative Writers

Actually, I'm only providing you with the wherewithal to look at them. You'll have to come to Western if you want to meet them. From left to right we have Yours Truly as 2001-2002 Treasurer, in a disarmingly relaxed pose, then Dr Brian Railsback, head of the English Department and our faculty advisor, Grand Exalted and now Exiled Poobah Tony Christopher, obviously enjoying his farewell party (he now belongs to Denver University), Kristy Henderson, resident sprite, and  James Hogan, Secretary and Republican.