I found this article yesterday on an author’s blog and I absolutely agree with the article (and the author’s sentiment, though I won’t link back out of courtesy to the author’s post’s request). The article’s author makes a terrific, and alarming, point about the potentially dangerous and potent message of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. [...]
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The argument: Bella is no Buffy, to her detriment.
Posted in criticism, fantasy, ranty rant, tagged breaking dawn, female hero, feminism, kick ass women, stephenie meyer, the guardian, twilight saga, YA fantasy on Friday 5 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
The low-brow and high-brow of fantasy books… and movies.
Posted in criticism, ranty rant, tagged epic fantasy, fantasy, legend of the seeker, limyaael, movies, robert jordan, terry goodkind, the eye of the world, true blood, tv, twilight saga, wizard's first rule, writing on Wednesday 22 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just discovered Limyaael’s rants, thanks to a friend’s suggestion, and I’ve read through a ton of them today. I’m so much more random than she is in my blog posts and rants (and exponentially more prone to tangents), but it’s absolutely refreshing to read someone well-read, thoughtful, and full of really well-substantiated complaints, rather [...]
Reading the day away hurts the brain.
Posted in criticism, reading, review, tagged breaking dawn, deerskin, first person narration, frodo, lord of the rings, love, robin hobb, robin mckinley, spoilers, stephenie meyer, third person narration, thwwwp, twilight saga, vampires on Tuesday 16 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished Breaking Dawn. Gasp. I’m still on hold for it from the library… which I should go cancel. My friend lent me her friend’s copy — haha — and so I devoured that between last night and this morning (while managing, might I add, to get a full night’s sleep). I’ve got an [...]
The Seeker of Truth… in Primetime?
Posted in criticism, obsession, reading, tagged codex alera, garion, inda, jim butcher, legend of the seeker, sherwood smith, sword of truth, tavi, terry goodkind, wheel of time on Wednesday 10 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They are officially making a Sword of Truth television series — yes, bloggers, I am late with this news, so sue me — and I am surprised. Not shocked (I mean, it was bound to happen; the books are bestsellers) but surprised. “Legend of the Seeker.” Not so bad, looks like. Also, I mean, the [...]
Romance novels & Twilight ranting
Posted in criticism, ranty rant, reading, tagged emo, fantasy, kresley cole, romance novels, sherrilyn kenyon, stephenie meyer, teenagers, twilight saga, vampires, werewolves, writing, YA fantasy on Tuesday 22 July 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve read three books lately: Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren, and A Hunger Like No Other and No Rest For the Wicked by Kresley Cole. (The titles. I KNOW. Oy.) They’re all three legitimate romance novels and I’m a bit embarrassed to say I really enjoyed them. You get past the gratuitous [...]
Television update!
Posted in criticism, review, tagged abc, cbs, heroes, i am legend, james mcavoy, mad men, moonlight, nbc, pushing daisies, sweeney todd, tv, vampires on Friday 14 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been posting a lot lately, haven’t I? Don’t answer that.
I figured now that it’s nearing the “mid-season” break of television shows (which might turn out to be the season finales of a lot of shows because of the writer’s strike), and also considering that the Golden Globe nominations came out yesterday, it’s time for [...]
Where did this month go already?
Posted in criticism, fantasy, motivation / productivity, reading, writing, tagged christmas, fantasy, first person narration, john dickinson, patricia briggs, robin mckinley, stephenie meyer, third person narration, thwwwp on Monday 10 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At least it’s only the 10th of December. If it was next Monday the 17th already I might have to strangle Father Time because that’s just not funny. I still have loads of presents to buy (ugh, or even think about buying; I hate buying presents when I have no idea what to get for [...]
Moonlight tonight
Posted in criticism, review, tagged joss whedon, robin mckinley, tv, vampires on Friday 28 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s still a few hours until Moonlight premieres on CBS and I just read a review of it here, which was kind of depressing.
The CBS blurb made it sound a lot cooler.
Now I’m sad. I was really looking forward to a new vampire drama on TV (I miss both Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel, [...]
I was absorbed. Thwwwp.
Posted in criticism, reading, tagged first person narration, robin hobb, thwwwp on Wednesday 26 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
( “Thwwwp” is the official sound of me being sucked into a book.)
I finished Shaman’s Crossing (started 9/19; finished 9/21) the other day and promptly read and finished Forest Mage (started 9/21; finished 9/23), its sequel. Surprising, and very different from her other trilogies, but I was nonetheless absorbed and addicted. What is it about [...]
"From Elfland to…" Well, you get the idea of the conceit.
Posted in criticism, fantasy, theory, tagged fantasy, j. k. rowling, john milton, philip pullman, susan cooper, t. s. eliot, ursula k. leguin on Monday 12 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This article [broken link! Sorry!] fascinated me, ironically because I had just read Ursula K. Le Guin’s “From Elfland to Poughkeepsie” (1973) right before I started reading this article. It managed to articulate a lot of my personal anxieties about the Harry Potter books in a way I hadn’t been able to pinpoint before. I [...]
