lost weekend (now with added bookblogging)

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Where did my weekend go??? It's like it disappeared into this fever dream of bad Libertines fanfiction and compulsive wikipedia-ing of eighties post-punk bands...wait, that's not like what happened, that is what happened. ;_;

Suppose the weekend isn't over. Suppose, if I am very good tomorrow, I may finish on time for a late movie at

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Re: SPOILERS for House of Many Ways

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You put this /so/ much more coherently (and I mostly agree with you, although I was delighted by Howl, but it's really hard to separate than from being delighted with Sophie being disgusted with Howl) than I managed to when I talked about House of Many Ways, but somehow I didn't even think of the kobolds and their completely inappropriate treatment, which is weird, because I have picked up on something similar, equally offensive, and equally unaddressed in previous books (do not read Paula Volsky), and yet by the time I got around to writing about this, it had completely flown out of my head. Maybe because by the time I got to the end of the book, the kobolds had become such a non-issue in the text.

The more I think about it, the odder it was, because DWJ has brought up versions of the kobold-problem in previous books (definitely The Merlin Conspiracy and a bit in Dark Lord of Derkholm, I think) and /did/ have characters shake the status quo up because that's the right thing - not have one of the slaves bitch because the Inherently Evil Enemy's putting pressure on him to. Sigh.