Five Star Friday's 139th Edition Is Brought to You By Truman Capote

This Five Star Friday roundup is brought to you by books, Hungary, thirst, adoption, a goodbye, pregnancy, depression, a wedding, the sense of smell, death of a spouse, disordered eating, Valentine's Day, princesses, healing, premature babies, courage, favours, politics, and Truman Capote:

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

     — Truman Capote

If you've written a weblog entry that you'd like to share, paste its url into the comments. Thank you!

Happy Friday!

"Thoughts In a Bookstore" from Joe Blogs:

The amazing thing to me about diet books is how viciously they attack other diet books. I've read all the David Sedaris books, and not once do I recall him writing a sentence like: "Other humor writers will tell you that boogers are funny. They are entirely wrong. For the first seven chapters, I will show you the scientific evidence why booger jokes do not have any effect on the section of the brain that attends to humor."

"Soon After the Fall" by Julian Gallo at Indie Ink

"Thirsty" from Flutter

"Let Love Fall" from Amy Turn Sharp:

I stand up like a tough one on the corner of Main and State and I look at the car and it's like the world starts to move like an old record, like something slow and stuck. I'm in a fish bowl. I'm wet with water from the underworld. William is yelling and as this car passes she looks out the window through the clean glass and I see her. She is shiny and pink and glossy and I just want to shout out:

you look so fucking beautiful

"How I Got Over It" from The Healthy Living Project

"Just For Tonight" from You. Me. No Adult Supervision...

"Asymmetrical Mass Favors, A Tragedy of Our Commons" from Seth Godin's Blog:

The favor is too important to be discarded, but the internet is making things that look like favors (but are actually asymmetrical takings) more and more common. It's putting pressure on people who are usually open to a favor to do the difficult thing and just say no.

"Notes from the Kitchen After Midnight" from Birdykins: Fly. Crash. Repeat.

"Pyjamas" from Bag Lady

"When the Heart On Your Sleeve Becomes a Weapon and the Loss of Grace" from Uppercase Woman:

...I have kept silent because, to me, it seems very much as if facts no longer matter.

I listed a bunch of information above about Planned Parenthood, but you know what?

Most people don't give a shit about facts.

Facts are no longer relevant.

We've lost the ability and willingness to reason.

And that makes me sadder than anything.

"Senseless" from Resistant But Persistent

"A Big Family of Brave Women" from Surrender, Dorothy

"Through Plastic She Kicks" from sweet | salty

They make your breath catch, those babies. Your hand goes to your chest for the comfort of your own thump.

If you’ve ever been so unfortunately fortunate to meet one, you know they’re the most beautiful creatures ever. They make it so you never see anything the same way again. Not food, not grass, not your own thump. You step out from inside a controlled, sanitized staleness to the place where mud puddles and rosy cheeks happen. You shrug at all the crap you once thought was precious. You stop and stare at all the things you once thought were inanimate.

"A History of Eating" from Premature Nostalgia

"In the Winter You Were Born" from Torpid Trifling

"Broken, Unbroken" from Dutch Blitz

I chose a different path than my parents did, not as a judgment of them, but as a hope to have a life less broken. For as much as the world tries to spin marriage as something outdated and divorce as something to be expected, I am a living testament to the fact that divorce does leave people broken. And that marriage is alive and well.

"In Defense of Princesses" from This Heavenly Life

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Comments

[Kara]

It's a miserable day outside - perfect for nestling in with a pot of tea and enjoying all this great writing. Thanks Schmutzie!

http://scattered-joy-blog.blogspot.com/2011/02/soul-of-whole.html

[Jessica Lockhart]

I'm thrilled to have been featured on Five Star Fridays again--not to mention looking forward to reading the other posts. Thank you!

[Angella]

I'm so honoured! Thanks for hosting this, dear Schmutzie.

[TJ]

Thanks for another Friday fix...there are always such touching pieces of writing in this selection. Wonderful to have them assembled here.

http://roadmomma.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/one-second/

[Hil]

LOVE it! thanks for making it happen, Ms. S! http://hilthethrill.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/a-stack-of-beautiful-things/

[Julian Gallo]

Thank you! Greatly appreciated. :-)

[frelle]

This is my first participation in Five Star Friday!

From Beautiful Because, a list of the awesome I found on the web this week. My readership is under 15, and I would love if the posts got more exposure:

http://sheisbeautifulbecause.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-i-thought-was-awesome-this-week.html

[amy turn sharp]

thank you so much. I loved being featured on here- it's an honor! xoxo

[Jayne]

My first visit here, and what do I see?! Capote - one of my all time favorites. This warms my heart on a very cold Thursday afternoon. Fabulous clearinghouse. ;)