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syncope at 02:34pm on 27/04/2010
syncope at 02:34pm on 27/04/2010Oh ye of little faith.
So now everyone watch Southland and by the time it comes back we can have a postcard-mailing little fandom that could. Or something.
We watched some eps of TB last night. I find Maryanne more tolerable in retrospect. I did that with Riley on Buffy, too. I guess I can only muster up enough giddy-up to hate when a product is fresh. We've all watched the True Blood mini, right? There's already fic, right?
Now I have a book to unironically recommend. Don't expire from shock. The 100,000 Kingdoms by N K Jemisin. WHAT IN THE HELL, THIS IS A BLACK UNICORN OF A NOVEL. The world building alone is quite phenomenal, but what really impressed me is that it's written in 1st person and sold it. I hate fiction written in 1st person, y'all. HATE. (One of the reasons the Sookie books make me puke--but a really low rung below all the other garbage, such as everything.) There are also some deft touches in this book playing with gender inversion that had me a particular shade of pea green.
Some background: I was whining to my bosom companion J (see what I did there?) about how she doesn't cater to my every whim by writing me a book rec list (she reads a lot, since she's cooler than me; mostly I lurk on ontd_skating looking at JWeir's ass) and she told me to read this while she's too busy to entertain me. Now, don't assume I'm being all funny and this book actually SUCKS because we all know this friend is notorious for liking very bad fiction (you really have no idea unless you know her, but J and Cathy are like neck and neck for glorying in bad fiction--this is only funny if they don't have your phone number to text you).
GO BUY THIS BOOK NOW.
If you ever thought to yourself "I get all the brouhaha over endemic racism in publishing, but what can *I* do about it?" -- you can buy this book. Hop to it, kiddo.
Good chance of book spoilers in the comments, so shield your eyes if you need to.
I think I'm going to have to just defriend people who only allow commenting on DW. I find it really frustrating when I want to comment and I can't because I will have to comment on DW. I understand why people do this, and to each her own, but the whole concept of doing that annoys me. Get on with your bad DW selves, but kiss-kiss, it's been real.
So now everyone watch Southland and by the time it comes back we can have a postcard-mailing little fandom that could. Or something.
We watched some eps of TB last night. I find Maryanne more tolerable in retrospect. I did that with Riley on Buffy, too. I guess I can only muster up enough giddy-up to hate when a product is fresh. We've all watched the True Blood mini, right? There's already fic, right?
Now I have a book to unironically recommend. Don't expire from shock. The 100,000 Kingdoms by N K Jemisin. WHAT IN THE HELL, THIS IS A BLACK UNICORN OF A NOVEL. The world building alone is quite phenomenal, but what really impressed me is that it's written in 1st person and sold it. I hate fiction written in 1st person, y'all. HATE. (One of the reasons the Sookie books make me puke--but a really low rung below all the other garbage, such as everything.) There are also some deft touches in this book playing with gender inversion that had me a particular shade of pea green.
Some background: I was whining to my bosom companion J (see what I did there?) about how she doesn't cater to my every whim by writing me a book rec list (she reads a lot, since she's cooler than me; mostly I lurk on ontd_skating looking at JWeir's ass) and she told me to read this while she's too busy to entertain me. Now, don't assume I'm being all funny and this book actually SUCKS because we all know this friend is notorious for liking very bad fiction (you really have no idea unless you know her, but J and Cathy are like neck and neck for glorying in bad fiction--this is only funny if they don't have your phone number to text you).
GO BUY THIS BOOK NOW.
If you ever thought to yourself "I get all the brouhaha over endemic racism in publishing, but what can *I* do about it?" -- you can buy this book. Hop to it, kiddo.
Good chance of book spoilers in the comments, so shield your eyes if you need to.
I think I'm going to have to just defriend people who only allow commenting on DW. I find it really frustrating when I want to comment and I can't because I will have to comment on DW. I understand why people do this, and to each her own, but the whole concept of doing that annoys me. Get on with your bad DW selves, but kiss-kiss, it's been real.
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