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Mar. 25th, 2024 10:00 pm1. Move went better than expected, considering I was wandering about with a bit of a brain fog.
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2. Work is insanely slow at the moment, mainly because Breaking Bad sucks at delegating. If my management spent less time playing musical cubicles and annoying their employees, and more on managing work flow this would not be a problem. So, I'm biding my time, by revising my novel and plotting the next one. Also electronic filing. And well, the move - which I did in record time.
3. Been working my way through Yellowface
It's a weird book. I actually think "American Fiction" handled similar issues better. Yellowface is a story told from a White Woman's perspective by an Asian Writer, about a White Woman finishing her Asian friend's last novel and passing it off as her own. It's satire - and at times falls into the same trap as pretty much all American Satire does (with few exceptions - See American Fiction), where we get a lot of sermonizing or preaching.
RF Kuang is furious with the American Publishing Industry. (And after the Hugo's, China as well, and the US has got nothing on China. You think the US is racist and nasty, try China. It's a fascist dictatorship.) Although honestly, who can blame her? I'm furious with the American Publishing Industry, so was Harper Lee for that matter. Most writers are. The American Publishing Industry is a toxic nightmare, sorry to say. Lots of dingbats trying to get everyone to write the same or the way they think people should write.
My difficulty with her fury - is it gets old after a while. I really am getting tired of the main character's rants. It's a very whiny book.
And no one in this book is likable so far.
4. Bride by Alix Harwood is slightly better. Although I'm admittedly not in a romance frame of mind. They have an erotic sex scene, where he basically rubs his scent all over her and bites her. I skimmed it. It did nothing for me, and I was kind of bored.
At least it's not whiny or yearning, more snarky. There's agonizing, but to a lesser extent. And it has a plot, so it's central focus is not the romance. The set-up? A Vampire is forced to Marry a Werewolf leader to establish peace among their people - they only have to be together for a year. She agrees to marry him to find her long-lost human sister, whom she was raised with when she was collateral in the human world. Poor Vampire was initially sent off to be collateral in the human world - to keep the peace, now she's sent off to be collateral in the Were world to keep the peace. No wonder she's snarky. When you don't feel like you fit in anywhere, this tends to give rise to being snarky.
( Read more... )
2. Work is insanely slow at the moment, mainly because Breaking Bad sucks at delegating. If my management spent less time playing musical cubicles and annoying their employees, and more on managing work flow this would not be a problem. So, I'm biding my time, by revising my novel and plotting the next one. Also electronic filing. And well, the move - which I did in record time.
3. Been working my way through Yellowface
It's a weird book. I actually think "American Fiction" handled similar issues better. Yellowface is a story told from a White Woman's perspective by an Asian Writer, about a White Woman finishing her Asian friend's last novel and passing it off as her own. It's satire - and at times falls into the same trap as pretty much all American Satire does (with few exceptions - See American Fiction), where we get a lot of sermonizing or preaching.
RF Kuang is furious with the American Publishing Industry. (And after the Hugo's, China as well, and the US has got nothing on China. You think the US is racist and nasty, try China. It's a fascist dictatorship.) Although honestly, who can blame her? I'm furious with the American Publishing Industry, so was Harper Lee for that matter. Most writers are. The American Publishing Industry is a toxic nightmare, sorry to say. Lots of dingbats trying to get everyone to write the same or the way they think people should write.
My difficulty with her fury - is it gets old after a while. I really am getting tired of the main character's rants. It's a very whiny book.
And no one in this book is likable so far.
4. Bride by Alix Harwood is slightly better. Although I'm admittedly not in a romance frame of mind. They have an erotic sex scene, where he basically rubs his scent all over her and bites her. I skimmed it. It did nothing for me, and I was kind of bored.
At least it's not whiny or yearning, more snarky. There's agonizing, but to a lesser extent. And it has a plot, so it's central focus is not the romance. The set-up? A Vampire is forced to Marry a Werewolf leader to establish peace among their people - they only have to be together for a year. She agrees to marry him to find her long-lost human sister, whom she was raised with when she was collateral in the human world. Poor Vampire was initially sent off to be collateral in the human world - to keep the peace, now she's sent off to be collateral in the Were world to keep the peace. No wonder she's snarky. When you don't feel like you fit in anywhere, this tends to give rise to being snarky.