June Book Blogging: Me Jane. You WTF? (Public Post)

[author_by_night]

 I was inspired by this post to book blog. I probably won't be doing it exactly the way they had in mind, but I probably will talk about books I'm currently reading. After all, the original point of this blog was  mostly to blog about a particular book series. I'll probably mix and mash topics - current reads, old reads, want-to-reads, how certain

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[linda_lupos]

"Her only flaw is that she can't sing."

My favourite bit is how this is always IMMEDIATELY compensated by her demonstrating that she's apparently the only person in the world who figured out how to whistle, and then people are immediately astounded by that fact. Ayla just can't lose!

"He's making my baby!!!" is still super dumb. Jondalar was never really the sharpest flint in the knapping cave (.... does that even make sense?) but geez louis. Just shut up and be pretty, Jondalar.
Why do the men even care whether it's 'their' baby since they live in a matriarchal society? They never struck me as caring an awful lot about which kids belong to which men, whether Ugh Grugson was really Grug's son rather than Mug's son (.... I don't know where those names came from, lol). Besides, if other dude is making "my" baby, YOU STILL GET A BABY THAT'S APPARENTLY YOURS, JONDALAR. It's just that you're not the one sticking your penis in 'your' woman, and that's what really gets your goat, doesn't it? Ayla should have stayed with the Mamutoi.

Dumb book, stupid ending of a great series. :(

[author_by_night]

Not to mention that Jondalar probably had a ton of Jondalar Jr.'s running around.

Although I'm not actually sure that Jondalar wasn't supposed to be an asshole all along. I think that maybe that was part of it, we were supposed to realize Jondalar was kind of a mistake. I don't know. The writing was just so clunky that I don't know if some of the weirdness would've made more sense had Jean Auel written it when she originally had the idea, or if it was just... weird.

I forgot that Ayla could whistle! Sigh.

[linda_lupos]

Lol yeah, that too. Half of Valley of Horses was Jondalar being paraded around like the stud horse of Europe because he's so pretty and his penis is so large. Everybody wanted to have his 'spirit'. Although now I'm wondering how they figured you needed to have sexy to exchange spirits rather than just literally sleeping together. Guess they did notice that years and years of cuddling didn't work but actual sex did. But then, the step to "so that means sex partner = spirit giver = father" is awfully small.
.... man, those books are actually kind of terrible, aren't they? Haha.

"Jondalar was kind of a mistake." Harsh, but fair. :p Really, his biggest luck was that he was the first Other Ayla encountered so he became the golden standard for her. And then the idiot didn't even think to teach her the local language! (To be fair to him, he had been badly injured and traumatised, and I'm sure if I woke up somewhere half-mauled by someone's cavelion pet my first instinct wouldn't be to speak English either.)
Kind of wondering how things would have ended up had Thonolan been the one to live. He seemed like the chiller dude.

Ayla can't just whistle, she can whistle LIKE THE BIIIIRDS OMDonnii!

[author_by_night]

Yeah, I think Thonolan even had a more open view of the Clan/Flatheads? But I could be wrong. Granted, the way no one in the Zelandoni really cared that Ayla was raised by the Clan does... not reflect well on Jondalar.

[linda_lupos]

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I'm beginning to think that the Zelandonii might secretly have been relieved that Jondalar went away for a good long while. :p "Thank the Mother he's out of our hair for a bit, hopefully he'll grow up and come back better." Like the caveman version of a gap year. (Huh, they even literally went backpacking!)