04.2013

An excellent collection of rather personal essays about literature from a liberal feminist perspective by a great writer. I am not a fan of Russ' fiction but the moment I started reading her non-fiction I was hooked. She's direct, easy to understand and profoundly coherent throughout.

Includes essays: 'Not From Years but For Decades’, ' ( Read more... )

31.05.2013

Somehow I read a 100,000 words novel that I don’t really thing quite makes it in terms of characterisation. I just kept wincing when Derek called the Sheriff dad and when the Sheriff encouraged Derek to date his teenage son and protected Derek instead of Stiles (supposedly because Derek is more fucked up and vulnerable). I understand ( 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:
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she ( Read more... )

14.04.2013

[Quotes to be added]Wolmark, Jenny, 1994c. ‘Troubles in Women’s Country’ in Aliens and Others: Science fiction, feminism and postmodernism (Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf)

‘Desestabilising Gender and Genre’ in Aliens and Others: Science fiction, feminism and postmodernism

09.04.2013

[Quotes to be added]Wolmark, Jenny, 1994b. ‘Desestabilising Gender and Genre’ in Aliens and Others: Science fiction, feminism and postmodernism (Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf)

Quotes TBA

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.

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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... )

El lento adiós a "mamá y papá"

15.05.2013

Nada nuevo, en realidad. Pero da gusto ver que las cosas progresan, ¿vieron? Y reconforta poder estar un poco orgullosa del país de una, para variar.

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... )

Some interesting points. Quotes illustrate them best.

06.05.2013

Yet when our own boundaries are ruptured, we become more aware of them rather than less.

....illness, it would feature expressions such as 'I'm not quite myself' and 'feeling out of sorts'. In illness we are not ourselves and yet trapped in ourselves. As James Wright puts it: 'I have ( Read more... )