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bookgazing) wrote2010-09-24 03:10 am
bookgazing) wrote2010-09-24 03:10 am
The Joy of Reading
I have more reviews coming next week, but I thought I’d close out for the weekend by telling you all that I’m reading ‘Dark Goddess’, the sequel to Sarwat Chadda’s novel ‘Devil’s Kiss’ which features a female Templar squire called Billi. A few chapters back Billi saved a boy from a werewolf attack. The boy is by no means emasculated in order for her to be able to save him, he is in fact strong, well trained and a member of the Russian equivalent of the Templars who just finds himself over powered by a werewolf. He isn’t super appreciative of the saving, but then I don’t imagine Billi would thank anyone for coming between her and her enemies either. And later he gives her a fancy gun as a present, to make her more fully equipped for attacking werewolves.
And suddenly my world is full of blood red sunshine and sharp edged rainbows, because this book exists.
This seems like a fantastic time to tell you about a group called The Chainsaw Gang that Sarwat Chadda and Steve Feasey, author of ‘Changeling’ belong to, who are bring the horror back to the paranormal. Now I have no problem with paranormal romance, I grew up reading a lot of paranormal romances, from Anne Rice, L J Smith etc, etc (although my preference is for paranormal romances to have some horrorific content mixed into the main relationships a la Buffy where almost anybody could become evil, or die) but I do like some straight up scary, evil times alongside my dark romances. So this group of writers sounds perfect for me to explore and I thought some of you might like to know about them too.
Carrying on from yesterday Tamora Pierce has a great post about why she writes mostly female characters and she talks about studies done on gender in picture books (which I know is not what I was talking about yesterday, but I would love to see the results from that study, because it would seem logical that what teenage boys read in their early years shapes what they read as teenagers, just as what boys read as teenagers shapes what they read and write as men) among other good points.
Have a fab weekend everyone. This is the last weekend before social land gets very pleasantly busy again so I think I’ll be mostly eating at a food festival, watching speedway, getting my hair done (hurray) and reading books and blogs. What are everyone else’s plans?
And suddenly my world is full of blood red sunshine and sharp edged rainbows, because this book exists.
This seems like a fantastic time to tell you about a group called The Chainsaw Gang that Sarwat Chadda and Steve Feasey, author of ‘Changeling’ belong to, who are bring the horror back to the paranormal. Now I have no problem with paranormal romance, I grew up reading a lot of paranormal romances, from Anne Rice, L J Smith etc, etc (although my preference is for paranormal romances to have some horrorific content mixed into the main relationships a la Buffy where almost anybody could become evil, or die) but I do like some straight up scary, evil times alongside my dark romances. So this group of writers sounds perfect for me to explore and I thought some of you might like to know about them too.
Carrying on from yesterday Tamora Pierce has a great post about why she writes mostly female characters and she talks about studies done on gender in picture books (which I know is not what I was talking about yesterday, but I would love to see the results from that study, because it would seem logical that what teenage boys read in their early years shapes what they read as teenagers, just as what boys read as teenagers shapes what they read and write as men) among other good points.
Have a fab weekend everyone. This is the last weekend before social land gets very pleasantly busy again so I think I’ll be mostly eating at a food festival, watching speedway, getting my hair done (hurray) and reading books and blogs. What are everyone else’s plans?