![]() ![]() On top of that she has this sort of breathy thing going on that I found it really distracting. And I find her accent, irritating, because that’s definitely not how poor white Floridians - those who live in the small rural towns, not Miami or Orlando - speak. For those who don’t know Anna Paquin was raised in New Zealand. Rubyfruit Jungle is the first milestone novel in the extraordinary career of one of this countrys most distinctive writers. This might be due to the really lousy casting of Anna Paquin as the reader. Oranges are not the only fruit held up for me but not this. ![]() Re-reading this book about 30 years later I’m less impressed with it than I was the first time around. At the time I read this, I read oranges are not the only fruit, and some thing else which my brain all smashed together. There’s a bunch of books that I read at that time, and I seem to have mush them all together in my brain, because I genuinely believed that the story was different than this. I was directed towards reading this book during a period when I was questioning my sexuality. Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sister Jane novels-Outfoxed, Hotspur, Full Cry, The Hunt Ball, The Hounds and the Fury, The Tell-Tale Horse, and Hounded to Death-as well as the Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries and Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, and The Sand Castle, among many others. A classic in the genre of lesbian literatureīack when I was an undergraduate, I am now retired. ![]()
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