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petronia(Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, FTR)
(and yes I know I posted about this being in my pile of books in MARCH)
1) Pretty epic relaxation, yeah. XD;
2) I've not read the Outlander series, as I've mentioned, but sororial unit always claimed the earlier ones were badly written despite page-turner-ism, and this one (2007-8?) is MILES better than the first Lord John book which was 2003 and pretty credible in and of itself, meaning that Diana Gabaldon is still improving. That is kind of unnerving, isn't it? How many writers of massive populist best-sellers actually improve their prose? XD; It's usually the other way around, sadly.
3) BUT NOW I HAVE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT [SPOILERS] AUGHHH
4) Basically I called it here (only worse) but she nevertheless lulled me into a sense of security with massive applications of adorability, faugh. I mean there is something v. 10-15 years ago in her entire baseline treatment of the Gay Issue (not the historical baseline, Gabaldon's) but at the same time I recognize that she's employing the Bujold Method of triggering worst-case scenarios so yeah (a lot of Bujold in this, generally). STILL GONNA BITCH THOUGH
5) There's also the awkward aspect where Jamie Fraser is clearly Gabaldon's Kagetora, like I wasn't expecting her to go there? and AFTERWARD I remembered that sororial unit had, in fact, mentioned her going there. (This was a decade-old conversation, okay.) Actually Lord John Grey himself is unimpeded by his irrational obsessive Thing for Jamie Fraser, in the sense that he gets right on with the rest of his life and basically treats Fraser like a normal person when they interact (apart from the last bit, but they both had it coming). It's nice to have a model of sanity to point to in this sort of scenario.
6) But every time Jamie Fraser shows up in this I think about (fan designed) Hetalia Scotland. Like say what you like about Hetalia but isn't it weird how the part of the collective unconscious responsible for anthropomorphic personification works?!
(and yes I know I posted about this being in my pile of books in MARCH)
1) Pretty epic relaxation, yeah. XD;
2) I've not read the Outlander series, as I've mentioned, but sororial unit always claimed the earlier ones were badly written despite page-turner-ism, and this one (2007-8?) is MILES better than the first Lord John book which was 2003 and pretty credible in and of itself, meaning that Diana Gabaldon is still improving. That is kind of unnerving, isn't it? How many writers of massive populist best-sellers actually improve their prose? XD; It's usually the other way around, sadly.
3) BUT NOW I HAVE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT [SPOILERS] AUGHHH
4) Basically I called it here (only worse) but she nevertheless lulled me into a sense of security with massive applications of adorability, faugh. I mean there is something v. 10-15 years ago in her entire baseline treatment of the Gay Issue (not the historical baseline, Gabaldon's) but at the same time I recognize that she's employing the Bujold Method of triggering worst-case scenarios so yeah (a lot of Bujold in this, generally). STILL GONNA BITCH THOUGH
5) There's also the awkward aspect where Jamie Fraser is clearly Gabaldon's Kagetora, like I wasn't expecting her to go there? and AFTERWARD I remembered that sororial unit had, in fact, mentioned her going there. (This was a decade-old conversation, okay.) Actually Lord John Grey himself is unimpeded by his irrational obsessive Thing for Jamie Fraser, in the sense that he gets right on with the rest of his life and basically treats Fraser like a normal person when they interact (apart from the last bit, but they both had it coming). It's nice to have a model of sanity to point to in this sort of scenario.
6) But every time Jamie Fraser shows up in this I think about (fan designed) Hetalia Scotland. Like say what you like about Hetalia but isn't it weird how the part of the collective unconscious responsible for anthropomorphic personification works?!
