Outside Reading Blog numbero 3 (can you say "procrastinator"?)

In this section of the book Shug has left and then returned with a husband named Grady. Grady is described as a large, tall man who seems to be very much in love with Shug. The fact that Shug has gotten married disturbs Albert, and he doesn’t like it at all. They've come to visit Celie and Albert for the holidays. Celie is very happy that Shug has come back because now she has someone to talk to, "Mr. drink all through Christmas. Him and Grady. Me and Shug cook, talk, clean the house, talk, fix up the tree, talk, wake up in the morning, talk" (109). Now that Shug is back Celie can let out all of the feelings that she has been hiding from her husband and from everyone else and just let things flow.
Later Celie is talking to Shug about her sister, Nettie. Celie is convinced that Nettie is dead because Nettie said that the only thing that would stop her from writing to Celie while she was away was death, and Celie hasn't gotten a letter from Nettie. When Celie tells this to Shug, Shug gets a little confused and also an idea: "And no word from her yet? she ast. Naw, I say. Every day when Mr. come from the mailbox I hope for news. But nothing come. She dead, I say. Shug say, She wouldn't be someplace with funny stamps, you don't recon? She look like she studying. Say, there be a letter with a lot of funny looking stamps. He never say nothing bout it, just put it in his inside pocket. One time I ast him could I look at the stamps but he said he'd take it out later. But he never did" (118). The idea that her own husband is keeping letters away from her that her own sister has written shocks Celie. She doesn't believe that it's possible.
Later Shug decides to take matters into her own hands: "Saturday morning Shug put Nettie letter in my lap. Little fat queen of England stamps on it, plus stamps that got peanuts, coconuts, rubber trees and say Africa. I don't know where England at. Don't know where Africa at either. So I still don't know where Nettie at. He been keeping you letters, say Shug. Naw, I say. Mr. mean sometimes, but he not that mean. She say, Humpf, he that mean" (119). Celie becomes very upset about how her husband is keeping her things away from him and becomes so furious that she considers killing him for it. After she gains her composer she goes into his room and finds the letters.
This part of the book reminds me of the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close because of the way that the family members seem to be hiding things from each other.