Not much to talk about... But there is a Book Review: "The Red Tent"

Working... crampy (Female TMI!)... fishing for terribly-written "Matrix" fics to roast on GAFF... writing a few odds and ends of fics and ficlets...

I finished reading Anita Diamant's "The Red Tent" last night: It's gotta be one of the best biblically-inspired novels I've read, and it gives you a completely different perspective on the Old Testament. Most of the time, and Christian writers are the worst offenders, you wind up with the anachronistic notion that all the Old Testament patriarchs and/or matriarchs all practised the Jewish faith, regardless of the fact that it really didn't get nailed down until the time of Moses. I know a lot of readers coming to this novel cold will be shocked to hear about the wives of Jacob revering the early Semitic goddesses like Inanna and Gula, but I found it fascinating and enlightening.