Babyboomer Women relating to Marilyn French book 'The Love Children'

Dear Babyboomers 
R wrote - Started Marilyn French's last book, The Love Children. So far so good.

 http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ review this as follows

The Love Children (2005)
A novel by Marilyn French


Marilyn French's 1977 novel The Women's Room epitomized the feminist movement and became one of the most influential books of our time. Now she has captured the complexities of life for the daughters of the Women's Room generation in her highly anticipated new novel The Love Children.


It is the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Grateful Dead is playing on the radio and teenagers are wearing long hair and blue jeans. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter and a proto-feminist Harvard professor, is struggling to make sense of her world amid racial tensions, Vietnam War protests, and anti-government rage. With more options than her mother's generation, but no role model for creating the life she desires, Jess experiments with sex and psychedelic drugs as she searches for happiness on her own terms. In the midst of joining and fleeing a commune, growing organic vegetables, and operating a sustainable restaurant, Jess grapples with the legacy of her mother's generation.

Clara - Can't wait to read it - sounds great -  set in the era we are revisiting especially with G being in Vietnam.  Love your mobius scarf - silk screened with a photo - I had a Silk Screen Cottage Industry in the 80's but my mind boggles at being able to silk screen knits. 
Still haven't forgotten Time Management or Looking in Mirrors.
Cheers Clara



Welcome to my journey as I photograph something I create everyday for a year... RRT

In Ruins...March 21st
Continuous Scarf silkcreened with a photo I took of indian ruins in New Mexico

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G wrote Hello Darling - Always great to get your thoughts on return from dinner in the evening, Na Trang is very busy this weekend as they have a big celebration on as part of Vietnam 1000 year celebration with Ho Chi Minh centre stage. much loved father of modern Vietnam. Ian and  a couple of the others from past years projects have special invitations to attend, so tomorrow we all 7 do this then move on on Sunday to Vung Tou.

In answer to your question - The beer is quite good, in Hanoi they have 2 - 3 kegs on the side of the footpath; they put in the top valve then a tap and pour the beer straight into your

glass, Fresh and cold, I don't know how they get it cold.
In Na Trang it comes from the traditional tap on the Bar, a bit more upmarket. 

Other than that, the way they do things on work projects, deliveries etc is as different to our world as is Venice, except it's all done on bicycle!!

Clara - We could sell  both cars and just ride bikes.  1000 year celebrations - mind blowing.  My knowledge of Vietnam is mainly in the context of the Vietnam War and even then that is scant.  I began Teaching  in the mid 60's, and perhaps the busy process contributed to me missing out on a lot of background so this is a great opportunity to extend  my knowlege and do some googling.


How is the food?  Is it very spicy and hot?  Are the French bakeries still there or indeed is there much French influence?  How does it feel to be back there after all this time?

Keep safe Darling



Members of 7RAR disembark from a landing craft at Vung Tau for their second tour of duty in Vietnam, February 1970.

Already a popular resort before the war, Vung Tau came to be used by Australian and American servicemen as a rest area.

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