I loved them both.

What I liked about the first part was how she was able to render her childhood from the perspective of a little girl, giving it lots of mythological viscera and making it beautiful.

See, some of the second part bored me... until she started sleeping with women.

(in case you don't know, I am not making any silly het boy references... simply, I found it ... special because we have same-sex attractions in common... )