I've been rereading the Memory of Earth (Card) series lately. I think these books are utterly amazing-- I feel that they were written at the height of Card's powers, before he lost his trademark utter compassion for all characters, even the stupid and/or evil ones, but after he figured out mad writing skillz. And these books are written for ( Read more... )

Kate Nepveu has a post talking about a panel on taboos in fantasy, which made me think about my own personal taboos and how they've been violated recently.

I recently read this book Burned by Ellen Hopkins, a YA book about an adolescent girl who is part of an abusive family and is looking for love, and the ways that sex plays into both of those. ( Read more... )

As part of the great rereading orgy I had over Christmas (including all of the John M. Ford books I've been missing since his death, and some old Star Trek cuddly favorites) I reread Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card. Wow. I had forgotten how much I love this book. It's one of my favorites ( Read more... )

I've been reading the Old Testament in great gobs this week. My church (as opposed to D's, that is) is doing the OT in Sunday School this year. Between being completely bored by their take on Genesis (although it's kind of fun to see the sorts of contortions you have to go through to make the text support the belief that Eve was *right* to take the ( Read more... )

Rooting around on amazon I found that CHARLES WILLIAMS IS BACK IN PRINT! I can't tell you how much I love this guy. He is weird, weird, weird as heck, and has some somewhat strange theological ideas, and tends to write stuff assuming you know a whole lot about dante and theology in general, and if you aren't fairly familiar with the Bible you are ( Read more... )