12.07.2013
First, this is the sequel to ‘The Foxhole Court’ and there is no point in you reading it without reading that, which is *free*, first.

I do feel The Raven King is weaker, overall, than The Foxhole Court, the introductory chapter with all the backstory infodump seriously worried me (it’s cool to write a sequel, it helps nobody to give a ( Read more... )

15.06.2013

Published June 1989, the year after the Gallaudet University revolution.

Interesting but pretty basic. Good for me since I haven’t read much on the topic at all and it references other material (David Wright’s autobiography, for example) and gives enough of a basic history to give a casual reader a basic understanding. I’m quite sorry ( Read more... )

‘Let's get this undead show on the road’  by  Sarah Rees Brennan [short-story] [N7]

09/05/2013

Really enjoyed this one, UNLIKE the other band with vampire story, 'Undead is very hot right now'. It has the best of Sarah Rees Brennan's treatment of family and friendship, as well as her characteristic humour.

Then faced with a dilemma:
[Quotes...]
she ( Read more... )

04.04.2013

Really good essay (N7), used a lot of the ideas for my dissertation and I still want to read the rest of the book.

[Quotes]
Bibliographical information: Wolmark, Jenny, 1994a. ‘Unpredictable Aliens’ in Aliens and Others: Science fiction, feminism and postmodernism (Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf)

Quotes from Chapter 2: Unpredictable Aliens

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17.05.2013

Switch is a story in the line of A Light Handed Approach to Regulation, that is, a story that goes into Dominance and submission issues and asks a lot of uncomfortable questions about how ingrained this tendencies are and how dependant on biology. It’s a good story and it’s hot but it just does not have enough world-building to work on ( Read more... )

a light-handed approach to regulation by hazel . [Hockey RPS: Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews] . [N8]

17.03.2013

17.04.2013 (total coincidence, i swear)

02.05.2013 (couldn’t resist and started recording podfic) <.<
01.11.2013 (at least I stopped rereading monthly?)
02.03.2014

There’s a lot of gender in this fic. In the way most alphas that show up are ( Read more... )

07.04.13
Wow to the wow. I think I tried once before to read Cixous and was stumped. I’m not surprised. This is an essay but it’s closer to poetry and it’s taken me close to 4 hours to get through because at some points the length of the sentences just lost me.
Lots of quotes, because the lady says it better.

[Quotes]where woman has never her turn to ( Read more... )

“Fastening One Heart to Every Falling Thing”

2.04.13

I liked the initial premise a lot. Geno can’t. Sidney won’t. Bond. That is. Because they live in a world where people form psychic bonds with their romantic partners (with whom they are stuck forever). And the beginning is really good, really immerses you in this universe and Sid’s pseudo-autistic ( Read more... )

“The Foxhole Court” by Nora Sakavic

22.02.2012

I'm writing this review in hope that it will easy my mind because it's been 2 5 days since I finished this novel and I can't stop thinking about it. This is hardly that unusual when I read the first part of a trilogy whose two other parts remain unpublished.

But back to Foxhole Court. It is ( Read more... )

“Till You Make It” by lightgetsin

So I’m writing my dissertation about how all slash is really an exploration of female sexuality and genderswap is sort of the last step in that process, in the sense that you take a character everybody loves, a guy who can be a hero, and then re-position him into a female body and sometimes even a feminine gender ( Read more... )