PURPLE HIBISCUS

almost done with purple hibiscus. what a great title. this nigerian author utilizes many similes. many are unique and quite creative. lots on food and ordinary, everyday things used to liken/describe certain things, engendering staggering visual images. you'll get what i mean when you read it.

did make headway on the self-help book while on the ride to (friday eve).

on the ride fro, i'd picked up the novel at left bank books and it was a much shorter trip back. i'll be done with this one tonight.

update: 3/29/05
a bit about purple hibiscus...

it's so frightening how people can get it so wrong. it's so dangerous to be so misguided. the father character is deplorable, but there are many such fathers. there are many such people with unbelievably warped ways. can't even call them hypocrites because the horror of it is they just don't get it. i was having a conversation w/my boss today about something kind of related- about how some things happen in homes you wouldn't think they'd happen in, but when you find out about them, you're not all that surprised. unfortunately classic psychological phenomenon to rebel when coerced. to lash out when suppressed. sometimes i think i'm more scared for people who've always had everything go right in their lives (or think they have). it's like middle-aged men and the chicken pox.