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My enthusiasm has gone down the back of the couch of my subconscious
I'm having a spot of bother with House of Truth and Lies, inasmuch as I've finished the first part, up to my first major candy-bar scene, and maybe I made too much of that scene to myself, because my brain seems to be acting like I've finished the story ( Read more... ) -
Boys and their toys
Sent out half a dozen queries to agents with a shiny new query letter yesterday, expecting to have a relaxed weekend working on the current project, but I've already had a partial request from someone I expected to cut me dead, and a form rejection from someone I was actually quite hopeful about, and I am all jangly with nerves and it's only just ( Read more... ) -
Number one: the larch
I've been reading fantasy fiction since I read Victor Kelleher and The Hobbit when I was about 10. I read everything else as well (no, literally, everything - my project for grade 7 was to read every book on the grade-7-only shelves) but I knew I liked that zany stuff. I fell irrevocably into all-fantasy-all-the-time when I discovered the genre as ( Read more... ) -
If we wanted real life we'd read it
Lev Grossman made a fantasy-condescending post that both exemplifies my general issues with him, and makes me want to bludgeon him off his high horse with, say, a copy of the works of Joe Abercrombie. (Or, as Trudi Canavan said: "Just don't read crap books!")
Originally posted on Dreamwidth
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Things, possibly even three of them
Movies: To conclude our merry traipsing through the Aliens franchise, obviously we also needed to rewatch Alien: Resurrection. This took on a whole additional layer of analysis when the opening credits flashed up "Written by Joss Whedon", and I inhaled my dinner. (No, I hadn't known that before. I'm not a Whedonite, remember?) ( A:R is the rough draft of Firefly? ) -
Never, ever be the android in an Aliens movie
Hmm, Prometheus. HMM. I just do not know about this shit. Which is sad, because you had some magnificent actors delivering really interesting characters, and there were three just damn splendid scenes (all, interestingly enough, featuring Charlize Theron - that girl is on fire). But you do appreciate that science is sort of painstaking and ( Read more... ) -
Can we please all pretend I didn't just do that?
Well, I think my favourite part of Fifty Shades of Grey is the bit where he puts the used condom in his pocket. Yep. That totally didn't make me bodily recoil from the computer or anything ( Read more... ) -
It's a kind of magic
A few things bleeding together in my head have congealed into this post, and if that analogy hasn't completely squicked you away from reading any further, I will now tell you what they are:- an old friend accurately skewered Brandon Sanderson for using his novel as an explanation of a gaming system of magic;
- NK Jemisin stamped her foot on the idea ( Read more... )
- an old friend accurately skewered Brandon Sanderson for using his novel as an explanation of a gaming system of magic;
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"You cannot have my heart."
Went to see Snow White and the Huntsman. Good lord, that was rubbish.
Charlize was splendid; she did magnificently well with the scenery-chewing given to her, and basically 95% of everything good about the movie was related to her and her character. (Oh Ravenna. You made my heart beat frantic origin-of-the-dark-queen inspiration, and your magic ( Read more... ) -
The social benefits of hairdressing
I got a fabulous haircut the other day ( Read more... )