I wanted to post about something that's been at the back of my mind, and that is tolerance. Sure, there'll be a post coming up on tolerance as a theme in the books, but this one is about the general theme of acceptance and tolerance that was completely unintentional on CH's part. I think it's really interesting to see what's going on in people's ( Read more... )

This was something born out of an upcoming post that just ran away from me, about the differences between how male and female characters are treated, and it lead me to thinking about giving this particular issue its own post. There will be another one in a day or two on broader issues ( Read more... )

Ha. The movie channels strike again. I ended up watching Quills with a younger Steven Moyer in it, the other night. And since I rarely think of True Blood, I had my one and only epiphany on how I think it will go this season. I reckon, in True Blood style, Bill will stake himself as B1000 - which will wrench the heart of every fangirl (either up or ( Read more... )

So I have designs to update more often...and they are all dashed. Life will not leave me alone, and it's all terrible. Mr. Minty got a new job with a night time shift, which means I cook two dinners every night and do more housework. He's off today, so I'm trying to get this post finished before it's back to the grind. However, this downtime has ( Read more... )

Phew, real life stands in the way of the important information about Sookie Stackhouse. This has been my longest absence to date - and I can assure you I didn't die in the intervening time. It's a long and complicated tale of school holidays, illness and family visitors. After the chicken finger debacle, rest assured I have not resorted to ( Read more... )

I did intend to post this one quickly, and it's been obstructing me something fierce. But my chicken finger actually started peeling and the skin underneath was soooo sensitive. So I didn't post, because I wanted to keep typing to a minimum. I haven't been able to stop pondering this one. I'm also going to answer a related question from the text ( Read more... )

A Dance of Dragons is one long arse book. :D I still haven't finished it and haven't had time to retrieve my Sookie audiobooks. And since I have no True Blood recaps to put up, I've been lazy as hell about things on here. Plus, the end of my ring finger is disturbingly flat and weird. One of my sons laughed at me getting creeped out at it, so at ( Read more... )

Okay, so stunningly enough, this week I didn't have anything swirling round my head, mainly because I'm listening to A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin. It's been sort of backburner-ed for a while there. As well, my backup harddrive died, so all of my audio files on that - I haven't been listening to them. Hence, no swirling. On top of ( Read more... )

So, I didn't know about this - but apparently a couple of people have been waiting to hear what I have to say about the spoilers we've gotten about Dead Ever After. I am apparently a terrible tease. In truth, I had a bit of a debate with myself about the ethics of looking into further book content. After all - I figure stuff out from the leisure of ( Read more... )

No spankings this week for me. I'm on time, and on my best behaviour (relative to the PMR standard of behaviour though). I actually wanted to share a funny link this week that I got sent - Straw Feminists - a hilarious take on the Straw Man argument technique. The comic is a hilarious depiction of the notion that all feminists are ball breaking ( Read more... )