Molly Bolt's First Kiss

"We threw our arms around each other and kissed". 

My stomach felt funny.

"Does your stomach feel strange?"

"Kinda." (pg. 49)

 

One's first kiss is one to remember and reading about Molly's first kiss to Leota was something special. It was the first time that Molly came to realize that she was attracted to women. Author Rita Mae Brown choice of adding Molly's first kiss is able to make the reader relate to Molly's first kiss. 

The innocence of one's first kiss is often one that is always remembered with great fondness. 

THAT feeling, in which your stomach is turning inside out and you feel queazy but you don't know why. 

THAT feeling that makes you smile so much that you don't know how to stop (or if you want to).

THAT feeling of a million butterflies fluttering throughout your stomach. 

THAT feeling when you know that it is something special that you will forever remember. 

Yes, it is THAT feeling that makes one relate to Molly and remember one's first kiss of butterflies in the stomach. Oh the fondness of one's firsts in life. 

Hello Group!

Welcome to the Shadow Beast's Blog

This year we're going to try blogging on a real blogsite. Moodle, unfortunately, can't sustain these more creative ventures. So we're all going to use this blog for team posts and other postings related to the class that I might ask you to write.

Instructions: once you know what team you're going to be on, you should always LABEL your post according to your team's name. The labels must not have any spacing in them. For example, if you're in the Rubyfruit Jungle team, you would label your post TeamRubyfruitJungle. Or TeamZami or TeamGildaStories--all depending on which book you've chosen for your Midterm Report. Important: in order to earn Extra Credit points on your team's blog, you MUST label each team posting. You should also sign your full name to each post. The more material you add to your team post--such as photos of the author, a scan of the book cover, a book trailer or clips of the author reading from the book, and reviews of the book you're reading-- the more extra credit your team can earn. Exercise your creativity here.

You can also blog on this site just as an individual member of the class, which will have nothing to do with your team. Your Extra Credit work (an event or exhibition you attended, a play or movie you saw, which I've okayed as Extra Creidt) can be posted to the Blog. You should sign your name to each post, regardless of whether it's a team post or an individual post.

Graduate students, of course, may also post to this site, which you should label Grads. Guest speakers and others invited to view and comment on the blog should label their posts as Visitors.

Email me if you have any questions.

-- La Profe