What is Serendipity?: Jane Austen, Fingersmith and the story of my de-shelving
25 Nov 2008 10 Comments
in Personal Tags: closeted lesbian, de-shelved, Fingersmith, lesbian literature, the Jane Austen Book Club
by Geri
Note: This is not a So You Don’t Have To article. This is about my love and hate relationship with finding les-curious novels in our dear Motherland (charot!). GP
If you have no idea what de-shelved means, read my former post Of Lesbians in closets and lesbians on shelves.
This room is mine, not my younger sister's. You just saw a piece of me and I just outed myself as a Miley Cyrus fan.
What is Serendipity? Serendipity is giving a used books corner in a garage sale one more chance after raiding the entire thing for six times without the success of finding a novel that will suit your taste. You try the corner most shelf, you found nothing on it that you might like, so what do you do? You push that fated shelf a little bit, a book might have fallen behind, used books in garage sales are like that. You see it, you pin your longer arm behind the shelf to reach it. After perspiring alot and meriting curious stares from the people around you, you finally reach that book, and find out that it’s a novel with a lesbian character. You pay for that book for thirty-five pesos and walk out of the garage sale gloating to fate and feeling like a winner.
