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30 in 30: Day 21 (more Kushiel spoilers, be warned)
Favorite romantic/sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships) Phedre/Joscelin, Kushiel Series. I would classify them as a romantic relationship between a sexual and asexual person. Yes, they make love, and yes, Joscelin enjoys it — but he’s still pretty asexual. You can be asexual and enjoy sex. It’s just…not necessary for life. Sexual people (like Phedre,…
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30 in 30: Day 20 (good porn has kissing in it)
Favorite kiss Kushiel’s Avatar. Ok, there’s a lot of kissing in the Kushiel Series. The series is pretty much porn, with hefty amounts of romance and mysticism thrown in (any wonder why I love it so much?), and it’s fantastically written. Anyway. [SPOILER ALERT] Later on in the book, Joscelin and Phedre (and Imriel) are…
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30 in 30: Day 19 (more talking about porn–I mean, the Kushiel series)
Favorite book cover (bonus points for posting an image!) Kushiel’s Chosen. The second book in the series, it’s the one where we get to see Phedre’s marque in full on the cover. The previous cover showed a profile shot of her, which had only part of the marque. (Also…I’m not too fond of her face…
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Books I Think You Should Pick Up (And Read, Obviously).
So, I heard about something called The Friday Five, and apparently it’s something you do on your blog each week. There seem to be sites that generate questions for it, but I’ve been told you can also just list five things you want to share. I’ve decided to do it. As this is the blog…
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30 in 30: Day 18 (Wiccans in Space, female-dominated societies, and the family Jewels)
Favourite Opening Scene to a Book This is honestly something I haven’t given a lot of thought. Either the opening scene of a book is interesting enough grip me and I read the rest of the book, or it’s not and I don’t. I don’t rank the opening scenes as “favourites”. A few books’ opening…
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New treasures can be found everyday if you’re willing to take the time to look
As you may or may not know, I am always on the lookout for other writers of fantasy, especially of either the feminist or woman-identified variety (or both). When I was voting on NPR Book’s Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Titles (which is a flawed list but that’s beside the point), I saw “The Inheritance Trilogy”…
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30 in 30: Day 16 (democracy has miles to go before we can sleep)
Favourite Poem or Collection of Poetry This is a difficult one. I don’t have many favourite poems as I have favourite poets, and when I look at their works there are a few poems that jump out at me. So I have two. The first is by Langston Hughes. Democracy Democracy will not come Today,…
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30 in 30: Day 15 (in which I am fairly whimsical about the Rootabaga Country)
Your “comfort” book Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandberg. I first read this book when I was fairly young. The stories ‘were born of Sandburg’s desire for “American fairy tales” to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so set his stories in a fictionalized American Midwest called “the…