9.23.13
Celie is abused and raped by her Pa, who takes away her children after they're born. Eventually, Pa marries Celie off to a man who is just as abusive as Pa. Celie's new husband Celie is somewhat happy to marry Mr.__ because she can now remove her younger sister, Nettie, from Pa's household. However, after Nettie lives in Mr.__'s household for a time without encouraging his s**ual advances, Mr.__ kicks Nettie out. Though Nettie promises to write to her sister, Celie doesn't hear from her. Celie's life gets worse and worse, as she's now separated from the only person in the world whom she loves and who loves her back.Celie's life changes when Mr.__ brings his d**hly ill mistress home for Celie to nurse back to health. Mr.__'s mistress, Shug, is everything that Celie isn't: s**y, sa**y, and independent. Celie quickly falls in love with Shug, and Shug falls in love back. For the first time in Celie's life, she has a chance to enjoy s**, romance, and friendship
9.24.13
Celie learns that Pa has died. She also finds out that the house that Pa lived in actually has belonged to Celie and Nettie since their mother pa**ed away. So now Celie owns a home, which she prepares for Nettie's arrival. Now an independent woman, Celie remains close friends with Shug, although Shug is not faithful or constant in their romantic relationship. Celie also gains a new friend. After she left Mr.__, he became a changed man. He's reformed and is now a pretty decent guy. Although Celie isn't remotely romantically interested in him, they now enjoy each other's company.After several decades abroad in Africa, Nettie returns with Samuel, who is now her husband, and with Celie's two children. The sisters have a blissful reunion, and although they're now old women, we get the sense that they've just begun the best years of their lives
9.25.13
A starry-eyed would-be star discovers just how far the notion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" can go in this screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Chicago, originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. In the mid-'20s, Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) is a small-time chorus dancer married to a well-meaning dunderhead named Amos (John C. Reilly). Roxie is having an affair on the side with Fred Casley (Dominic West), a smooth talker who insists he can make her a star. However, Fred strings Roxie along a bit too far for his own good, and when she realizes that his promises are empty, she becomes enraged and murders Fred in cold blood. Roxie soon finds herself behind bars alongside Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a s**y vaudeville star who used to perform with her sister until Velma discovered that her sister had been sleeping with her husband
9.26.13
Leaves of Gra**
Poetry written over Walt Whitman's entire lifetime organized thematically into sections. Whitman revised and added to the book throughout his life, the final edition being published only months before his d**h in 1891. Whitman was intentional in not organizing the book in any chronological way. Instead, he was concerned with the journey of the poetry. He desired that the reader would see a self formed through the words and themes of the book