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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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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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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…
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30 in 30: Day 14 (in which I briefly talk about the Chaotic Canine, as portrayed by Thomas King)
Favorite character in a book (of any sex or gender) This is kind of a difficult question. I mean, I’ve read like a thousand books (I wish life had achievement trackers like WoW does) so choosing one character out of all those stories is sort of a monumental task. But, eh, what the hell. Coyote…
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30 in 30: Day 12 (in which I pick apart Anne McCaffrey’s “feminism” and tell you why ten year olds really should not read her books (or my posts, truthfully))
A book or series of books you’ve read more than five times Ugh. I really really really wish I could say The Black Jewels Trilogy for this one, but unfortunately I keep on losing my copy of that one and haven’t replaced enough times to have read it more than five times (I have read…
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30 in 30: Day 11 (where I talk about the Duke’s flat soda)
A book that disappointed you The Duke’s Ballad, by Andre Norton. It was just fucking crap is what it was. I started reading it and it seemed to be starting a bit slow, but I persevered. I was on vacation after all, and it was one of the three books I had. I wasn’t going…