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Wed Reading Meme...and stuff
Jul. 17th, 2013 10:23 pmEh should watch the tv shows saved on DVR, but do not feel like it. Was however highly entertained by my guilty pleasure series...General Hospital. Today's episode was a hoot.
Hey, it give me something besides work and the heat to discuss with my mother. The root to a good relationship with one's mother is to find a cultural item that you both like and can discuss to death.
Wednesday Reading Meme...seriously, does anyone out there care what I'm reading? I'm still on a romance novel binge. Which no one in my life shares a remote interest in, but is tolerating with a sort of loopy tolerant grin. My mother laughs at me, because she did it in her 40s. Now she's reading the literary novels that I read in my 20s, along with a lot of non-fiction biographies and historicals. Most of which are incredibly depressing.
I finished Eloisa James novel Pleasure for Pleasure, which is clearly a riff off of "Midsummer's Night's Dream" and "Measure for Measure", with "Little Women" serving as a foundation. She plants delightful little references to Shakespeare throughout her novels, which the former English Lit major and theater geek in me appreciates. It's not as good as some of her other books. Yet oddly better than Georgette Heyer, which she was admittedly honoring. The syntax for one thing was actually correct.
Apparently the Kindle likes Eloisa James and hates Heyer? Plus James is a heck of a lot cheaper. You'd think if a book cost $8.99 that Amazon would make an effort to prevent typos?
James' novel was no more than $4.99. Half the price. Romance novels unlike mystery and sci-fi novels are dirt cheap. For some reason this genre is cheaper than the others...which if we think too hard about this is not exactly a good thing. The other genres tend to be more male driven - so what, men are making more than women even in book publishing? Pshaw.
Stop buying these books people. Gorent check out books written by men in mystery and sci-fi genres from your library. That way you can boycott, but not deprive yourself at the same time. Win-win. Meanwhile spend the cash on female writers.
I wonder sometimes if my preoccupation with romance novels stems from a similar pre-occupation with traditional gender wars? Possibly. No genre plays with the traditional power struggle between men and women better than heterosexual romance novels. I honestly have no idea why I have this weird craving for romance novels. But that won't stop me from attempting to figure it out. Don't worry, like all my cravings or ahem obsessions, it will end eventually. Hopefully it will not take quite as long as my obsession with Buffy and Joss Whedon took to end - but I admittedly had encouragement in that one. Nothing like encouragement to keep an obsession going.
At any rate...this book was interesting if a wee bit scattered. ( Read more... )
Still hot and humid. The heat isn't really all that bad. It's the humidity that sucks the life out of you. What I wouldn't do for a nice breeze. Oh well, at least my commute starts at 6:45 am in the morning - it's about 75-80 at that time. It's the afternoon bit that hurts.
In other news? I can't help rolling my eyes at the bewildered reactions to the George Zimmerman verdict. Seriously? Are people this deluded about our court system? People stop watching Law & Order - it's not real.
Co-worker and I discussed it the other day. He's a world-weary former criminal defense attorney and I've worked in criminal defense...so we both know how it works. Nothing makes you cynical about our justice system more than doing criminal defense internships in law school, well that and jury duty. ( Read more... )
Hey, it give me something besides work and the heat to discuss with my mother. The root to a good relationship with one's mother is to find a cultural item that you both like and can discuss to death.
Wednesday Reading Meme...seriously, does anyone out there care what I'm reading? I'm still on a romance novel binge. Which no one in my life shares a remote interest in, but is tolerating with a sort of loopy tolerant grin. My mother laughs at me, because she did it in her 40s. Now she's reading the literary novels that I read in my 20s, along with a lot of non-fiction biographies and historicals. Most of which are incredibly depressing.
I finished Eloisa James novel Pleasure for Pleasure, which is clearly a riff off of "Midsummer's Night's Dream" and "Measure for Measure", with "Little Women" serving as a foundation. She plants delightful little references to Shakespeare throughout her novels, which the former English Lit major and theater geek in me appreciates. It's not as good as some of her other books. Yet oddly better than Georgette Heyer, which she was admittedly honoring. The syntax for one thing was actually correct.
Apparently the Kindle likes Eloisa James and hates Heyer? Plus James is a heck of a lot cheaper. You'd think if a book cost $8.99 that Amazon would make an effort to prevent typos?
James' novel was no more than $4.99. Half the price. Romance novels unlike mystery and sci-fi novels are dirt cheap. For some reason this genre is cheaper than the others...which if we think too hard about this is not exactly a good thing. The other genres tend to be more male driven - so what, men are making more than women even in book publishing? Pshaw.
Stop buying these books people. Go
I wonder sometimes if my preoccupation with romance novels stems from a similar pre-occupation with traditional gender wars? Possibly. No genre plays with the traditional power struggle between men and women better than heterosexual romance novels. I honestly have no idea why I have this weird craving for romance novels. But that won't stop me from attempting to figure it out. Don't worry, like all my cravings or ahem obsessions, it will end eventually. Hopefully it will not take quite as long as my obsession with Buffy and Joss Whedon took to end - but I admittedly had encouragement in that one. Nothing like encouragement to keep an obsession going.
At any rate...this book was interesting if a wee bit scattered. ( Read more... )
Still hot and humid. The heat isn't really all that bad. It's the humidity that sucks the life out of you. What I wouldn't do for a nice breeze. Oh well, at least my commute starts at 6:45 am in the morning - it's about 75-80 at that time. It's the afternoon bit that hurts.
In other news? I can't help rolling my eyes at the bewildered reactions to the George Zimmerman verdict. Seriously? Are people this deluded about our court system? People stop watching Law & Order - it's not real.
Co-worker and I discussed it the other day. He's a world-weary former criminal defense attorney and I've worked in criminal defense...so we both know how it works. Nothing makes you cynical about our justice system more than doing criminal defense internships in law school, well that and jury duty. ( Read more... )