• What are you currently reading?
Anna Karenina - I'm reading this for a group of friends who formed a book club specifically around this book ( Read more... )

• What are you currently reading?
Right now I'm reading The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson. I'm on page 68, and I'm struggling really hard. It's set in Heian Japan & written by a white woman from the US, and I just have a really hard time getting past this cultural appropriation. I feel weird reading it. I keep thinking of a post by
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I have RL stuff to deal with at the moment, so mostly this post is a collection of links I find fascinating. As always, rydra_wong is awesome for finding all of the links! I just find the ones I think are most relevant and put them in an order that is useful to me. Hopefully when I have time in a few days, I can write a post of my own.

WTF IS GOING ON

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This quartet seems to have mixed reviews....I remember someone telling me that they were bad, and not as good as the Song of the Lioness Quartet. Yet, sasha_feather was adamant that these were her favorite ones, being more realistic. Having acquired them for free at Bookmooch.com, I decided to go for it ( Read more... )

...Or so it has been dubbed in the comments over at coffeeandink.

I've had a few friends say, "Oh, that.....that thing. There's a lot of posts, and I skimmed a few, and I'm not sure what's going on."

Gentle Readers, you can know what's going on!

sparkymonster has written a summary here.

Also, a short-but-sweet summary with links here in a comment by vito_excalibur.

oyceter at ibarw saying why ( Read more... )

In regards to addressing my own white privilege, I am very much still in the "STFU and listen" phase.

So, while I don't have anything much say, I just thought I'd say that rydra_wong has been doing link round-ups of the on-going online discussion regarding Cultural Appropriation, and points to both people who struggle with white privilege and people who ( Read more... )

I need to catch up on BSG. I still feel like I've broken up with the show, because I've never gotten over how good it was in the beginning and how much it later sucked, but I will still watch the rest of it, by God.

It seems like every year, I get one of the Worst Colds Ever, and that's why I haven't posted for the last three days ( Read more... )