Electric Michelangelo Question 5

what do you think about Cy's thoughts on the mermaids - as they relate to female sexuality, implied or obvious? Does the foreshadowing of the Pisces vaginales serve to intensify this connection, or lighten it with some humor?

what do you think of Riley's (and then Cy's) connection between women and the smell of rain or the sea?

Electric Michaelangelo Question 4

if you were to get a tattoo, what would you get? where would you have it?

what do you think Hall was trying to express when she described Riley's tattoo on his foot?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Electric Question Three

When Cy first starts to work at the tattoo shop he comments on Riley's disposition and his ability to see humor in the dark. He says, "Perhaps he had come of his trade well fitting with a character already formed and suitable, or perhaps the trade had made him." Do you think there are any jobs that you were "made" for or thinking about your job now, has it made you?

Electric Michaelangelo Question 2

What do you think of the relationship between Cy and his late father? How do you think it affects him growing up? What do you think of Reeda's explanations of her late husband to Cy?

Electric Michaelangelo

Consumption? Really? do you think you could handle holding basins of bloody vomit at a young age? now?

Where are my readers at?

I guess we are that time of the month when our lives, like our hair, becomes unmanageable. No one is in on The Electric Michelangelo.

I finished the book due to a 5 hour layover at Dulles. I LOVED the story and it had great details about the people with strong female characters.

Related to the story: Astroland at Coney Island (where the story takes place) officially closes down tomorrow after operating for 46 years.

Electric Question One

As I am not entirely sure who is still wanting to read Electric Michelangelo, or who is even reading this blog in general - I decided I could at least have a conversation with myself. The first portion of the story involves a young boys coming of age at a seaside town. I especially find it easy to become absorbed in the coming of age because the author is a woman and the voice of the boy still feels authentic. 

So my question, even if you have not read any pages, is what is your own favorite coming of age story?