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I feel as though I've committed a sin....
I threw a book tonight. It would have been across the room, but the kitchen table got in the way. Suddenly, I know why the spine is cracked, and pages are falling out. It's a library book. I'm not the first person to have thrown it.
Sadly, it shouldn't cause such controversy. But it does. It's a Regency romance wherein the heroine... bends and bows and scrapes, and pretty much kills anything that could have been interesting inside of herself. For her man. Ain't love wonderful?
He's an ass, but it's always her fault. And she always has to trust him. And I was finally fed up when he went and 'proved' he didn't care for Society, but it's, y'know, HER fault. For abandoning him.
Yeah.
Book, meet my table.
Amusingly, the inner pages that were falling out was something I have been used to, before. See, the first time I bought The Silicon Mage by Barbara Hambly, they had crappy glue in. By the time I'd finished the book, it was in pieces.
Didn't matter. I've actually reread that copy something like ten times, by now.
Even more amusing? I have since bought two more copies, so I'd have a ... stable copy to read. The first went to a friend of my sister's. She never returned it. The second... is actually residing in the bottom of my backpack.
Note to self: finish Silent Tower soon.
Back to the Regencies. Wilma Counts' The Trouble With Harriet (different from the one I threw across the room) is one of those books with a lot of Political Messages within. The most amusing thing to me is that it was published *before* Sept 11, 2001, yet is so totally appliccable, at times, to the aftermath. The irony is VERY amusing.
Enough so that I may actually write the author and commend her. (She, btw, didn't do nasty things to her heroine. Her heroine, pretty much, kicked ass. Yay)
Yes. I demand heroines who don't bend and sway. And act idiotic. (well, a little is fine. But. *shudder*) There's a reason I'll probably never finish "Benny gets taken over for no fucking reason, while some idiot has lots of sex for no apparent reason" er, I mean "Transit".
Lyssie loves the name Aaronovitch. Lyssie just doesn't like his books.
(I believe it was Alden who coined the phrase, "Ma! I've been Aaronovitched!")
Did I mention the dentist?
Monday, I went. Was tortured. Have many bad things in my teeth, including a cavity under an existing filling (ohjoy). So. More trips for me. Sucks.
Went looking for a pair of Barbie sunglasses last night. No luck, sadly.
Sadly, it shouldn't cause such controversy. But it does. It's a Regency romance wherein the heroine... bends and bows and scrapes, and pretty much kills anything that could have been interesting inside of herself. For her man. Ain't love wonderful?
He's an ass, but it's always her fault. And she always has to trust him. And I was finally fed up when he went and 'proved' he didn't care for Society, but it's, y'know, HER fault. For abandoning him.
Yeah.
Book, meet my table.
Amusingly, the inner pages that were falling out was something I have been used to, before. See, the first time I bought The Silicon Mage by Barbara Hambly, they had crappy glue in. By the time I'd finished the book, it was in pieces.
Didn't matter. I've actually reread that copy something like ten times, by now.
Even more amusing? I have since bought two more copies, so I'd have a ... stable copy to read. The first went to a friend of my sister's. She never returned it. The second... is actually residing in the bottom of my backpack.
Note to self: finish Silent Tower soon.
Back to the Regencies. Wilma Counts' The Trouble With Harriet (different from the one I threw across the room) is one of those books with a lot of Political Messages within. The most amusing thing to me is that it was published *before* Sept 11, 2001, yet is so totally appliccable, at times, to the aftermath. The irony is VERY amusing.
Enough so that I may actually write the author and commend her. (She, btw, didn't do nasty things to her heroine. Her heroine, pretty much, kicked ass. Yay)
Yes. I demand heroines who don't bend and sway. And act idiotic. (well, a little is fine. But. *shudder*) There's a reason I'll probably never finish "Benny gets taken over for no fucking reason, while some idiot has lots of sex for no apparent reason" er, I mean "Transit".
Lyssie loves the name Aaronovitch. Lyssie just doesn't like his books.
(I believe it was Alden who coined the phrase, "Ma! I've been Aaronovitched!")
Did I mention the dentist?
Monday, I went. Was tortured. Have many bad things in my teeth, including a cavity under an existing filling (ohjoy). So. More trips for me. Sucks.
Went looking for a pair of Barbie sunglasses last night. No luck, sadly.
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What? Not even The Also People?
And I haven't read Transit since first publication, so can't remember too muh about it except the swearing and the crapness of Benny.
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