Reading Q4
Dec. 19th, 2019 04:50 pmHaving missed at least a dozen Wednesdays, let's see if I can catch up with some brief reviews.
Not-so-recently read: ( The boy on the bridge by MR Carey; CN zombies, ableism )
( Normal People by Sally Rooney; passing mention of domestic violence )
( Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach, by Nnm )
Currently reading: King of morning Queen of day by Ian McDonald. This is an early McDonald about fairies in Ireland around the time of the revolution. McDonald is very good at weaving the supernatural into real world history, and countering soppy American takes on Irish mythology.
I'm a bit tempted to DNF the book, though; I've put it down for several weeks and I'm disinclined to restart it. Partly because it is actually three books about three generations of half-fae women, and I didn't quite have the energy to start again with the second protag just when I'd got interested in the first.
And mainly because it is rather too rapey for my tastes. I mean, bad things happen to male characters but they are things like being fooled by scams and losing their wealth and professional reputation. Girls and women get raped by fairies, and it veers a bit too close to the classic horror trope of being punished for being curious about sex, plus the descriptions are unnecessarily detailed.
Up next: Don't know, I'm rather bogged down in KoMQoD so I haven't thought much about the next thing.
Not-so-recently read: ( The boy on the bridge by MR Carey; CN zombies, ableism )
( Normal People by Sally Rooney; passing mention of domestic violence )
( Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach, by Nnm )
Currently reading: King of morning Queen of day by Ian McDonald. This is an early McDonald about fairies in Ireland around the time of the revolution. McDonald is very good at weaving the supernatural into real world history, and countering soppy American takes on Irish mythology.
I'm a bit tempted to DNF the book, though; I've put it down for several weeks and I'm disinclined to restart it. Partly because it is actually three books about three generations of half-fae women, and I didn't quite have the energy to start again with the second protag just when I'd got interested in the first.
And mainly because it is rather too rapey for my tastes. I mean, bad things happen to male characters but they are things like being fooled by scams and losing their wealth and professional reputation. Girls and women get raped by fairies, and it veers a bit too close to the classic horror trope of being punished for being curious about sex, plus the descriptions are unnecessarily detailed.
Up next: Don't know, I'm rather bogged down in KoMQoD so I haven't thought much about the next thing.
