Day 33 of the 50 Day Book Challenge
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shadowkatThe prompt, I don't like and can't really do - it's name a book with a love triangle. Here's my problem - I don't like love triangles, so don't read books with love triangles. I don't really understand them being monogamous. If I found out someone loved me and another person, I'd most likely just get out of the way and say - take them, I'm gone. Bye, now.
This may explain why I'm still single. I don't compete with people for other people. It always ends badly. I don't like competition. It requires hurting someone, which I'd prefer not to do, if I can help it.
Also, for the individual who can't choose? Why?
Like I said, this is a trope that irritates me and doesn't really work well for me. I put up with them on television serials, but reluctantly. (They are kind of impossible to avoid on television serials.)
So instead of that, although you can do it if you want to, I'm creating my own prompt.
Name a book that features an LGBT romance by an LGBT writer.
I wanted to name one by Poppy Z Brite, which I read in the 1990s and loved, but I can't remember the title of the book.
So, I'm going with Alice Walker's The Color Purple.
I read it in high school - and it was among the first books that I read that featured a lesbian romance at its center. And it was written by a woman who was openly in love and involved with another woman in the 1990s.
Even now, “The Color Purple” is the only Pulitzer-winning novel to feature a lesbian protagonist and also be written by a woman. While Walker has never openly conformed to any one label under the “women-loving-woman” umbrella, she was openly and romantically involved with the singer Tracy Chapman in the 1990s, telling the Guardian, “(It) was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in love with her but it was not anybody’s business but ours.”
The Color Purple - a Sublime Portrayal of Lesbianism ahead of its time
This was adapted into a musical and a film.
I adored this book. It had been rec'd to me by my drama teacher in high school. It's told in letter format, or epistolary style, which I was enamored with at the time.
This may explain why I'm still single. I don't compete with people for other people. It always ends badly. I don't like competition. It requires hurting someone, which I'd prefer not to do, if I can help it.
Also, for the individual who can't choose? Why?
Like I said, this is a trope that irritates me and doesn't really work well for me. I put up with them on television serials, but reluctantly. (They are kind of impossible to avoid on television serials.)
So instead of that, although you can do it if you want to, I'm creating my own prompt.
Name a book that features an LGBT romance by an LGBT writer.
I wanted to name one by Poppy Z Brite, which I read in the 1990s and loved, but I can't remember the title of the book.
So, I'm going with Alice Walker's The Color Purple.
I read it in high school - and it was among the first books that I read that featured a lesbian romance at its center. And it was written by a woman who was openly in love and involved with another woman in the 1990s.
Even now, “The Color Purple” is the only Pulitzer-winning novel to feature a lesbian protagonist and also be written by a woman. While Walker has never openly conformed to any one label under the “women-loving-woman” umbrella, she was openly and romantically involved with the singer Tracy Chapman in the 1990s, telling the Guardian, “(It) was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in love with her but it was not anybody’s business but ours.”
The Color Purple - a Sublime Portrayal of Lesbianism ahead of its time
This was adapted into a musical and a film.
I adored this book. It had been rec'd to me by my drama teacher in high school. It's told in letter format, or epistolary style, which I was enamored with at the time.
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Date: 2020-12-10 02:55 pm (UTC)As for love triangles, though they are generally not to my taste, I can recommend Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Marianne Dashwood falls in love with John Willoughby. Colonel Brandon is quietly in love with Marianne for pretty much the entire novel. Meanwhile, her elder sister Elinor Dashwood falls for Edward Ferrars only to discover he is secretly engaged to another woman, Lucie Steele. (Money is a huge problem, too.) But everything works out in the end! It's a very satisfying read, a book I have enjoyed many, many times. The 1995 movie is pretty fabulous, too.
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Date: 2020-12-10 11:09 pm (UTC)I really don't handle love triangles well in books. The only one I can think of that I read with a love triangle was The Hunger Games - and it annoyed me as well.