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[molly_may]

Here, have a couple of links about bookish topics!

This is a week old by now and maybe everyone has seen it already, but I think many of the writers on my flist would be interested in Kristin Cashore's post Pictures of a Book Being Made, in which she details the process she went through to write Bitterblue. It is horrifying, but also inspiring.

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That's hilarious!

[wenchsenior]

I was thinking of you the other day re: books. I read a LOT and my sister had recently asked me for recs for fun, no-brainer, escape type books. After wracking my brain, I realized that despite reading about 50-60 books per year, I didn't have more than 2 or 3 'light' books to recommend out of my most recent 5 years of reading. It was all classics (I'm engaged in an Epic Pretentious Reading Project of trying to slowly work through all the Great Literature that my science education never required, but after 3 years I'm not even through with the Greeks yet...keep hanging up on Euripides); or it was (often annoying) literary fiction; or it was (often depressing) non-fiction. No wonder I'm often glum: my reading is not uplifting at ALL

Re: That's hilarious!

[molly_may]

I think the only Euripides I ever read was Medea, which I actually loved. Apparently I have a soft spot angry, homicidal female characters.

I was happily (and credulously) going along thinking, "how charming and funny...magical realism...maybe I could recommend this to my sister". And then came the ending. Yikes. Maybe not. LOL.
Heh, there's nothing like a book that pulls the rug out from under you in the last chapter

[lutamira]

Thanks for the links! It is interesting to see the Jim Hines thing again after all this action around artists drawing Hawkeye in traditionally-female poses. I'm glad the idea has sort of caught fire on a larger scale.

[molly_may]

Yeah, I've enjoyed looking through the Hawkeye pictures too. It's nice to see people questioning the sexism inherent in these kinds of poses.