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Books! Let's talk about books!
So I read and finished Halo: Cryptum, which is the first book I've finished since The Fault In Our Stars. It was readable (certainly better than any other game tie-in novel I've ever read), but it kind of left me feeling a bit cold. I think, because, I knew it was first part of a trilogy (of which my library system does not have the others), and because I think it relies on your knowing the game canon to get anything out of it. There were some things that weren't explained that I thought should've been, but that's just a really personal niggle.
And now I'm reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. I picked it up on the flea market on Thursday because Annette had mentioned that I might like it (I think it was literally years ago, but for some reason I remembered the title). She's a good writer, I have devoured half of this book since I bought it, which is the fastest I've read a book in a long time (the last I remember reading in this way was House of Leaves, and that was a million years ago). HOWEVER. She is never-endingly obsessed with how beautiful her heroine is, and also a certain other character. I've discovered, thanks to the internet, that they end up falling in love (OH GOD PASS THE SICK BUCKET*), and the only thing they have in common is that they're disgustingly beautiful.
This, to me, is a horrible thing. I'm not saying people shouldn't fall in love, and I don't know if I'm misunderstanding, but does this mean that if you're not beautiful (or no-one has ever told you so) then you don't get to fall in love with anyone/no-one ever falls in love with you? FUCK THAT NOISE.
(I've been told I'm ugly a lot, also I have body image issues, so possible bitterness speaking but somehow I don't think so).
Other than that, though? What I've read so far is really well written, and very readable. I hope it carries on being so, but from what I read earlier, I don't think that's going to be exactly the case *sighs*
(also my library? Has the first and third books (as this is ALSO a trilogy because everything's a fucking trilogy these days) but not the second. WAY TO GO, LIBRARY).
OH BUT: a male character also looks at certain other character (who is also male because YAY HETERONORMATIVITY!) and notes that he is beautiful, but then the author comments about how finding men attractive if you're a straight man is "gay" and UGH NO WHY DID SHE THINK IT WAS OK TO WRITE THAT. This book was published in 2011, the woman is in her forties, why did she think it's OK to use gay as an insult it fucking isn't. (also the inverted commas are totally hers. I'm ugh. This could be a pretty good book if not for that and the unearthly beauty of the main protags).
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*As I said on twitter, I am a big bucket of sap myself, but it doesn't mean I want to read about romances all the time, especially not if they feel pasted on and/or wrong.
So I read and finished Halo: Cryptum, which is the first book I've finished since The Fault In Our Stars. It was readable (certainly better than any other game tie-in novel I've ever read), but it kind of left me feeling a bit cold. I think, because, I knew it was first part of a trilogy (of which my library system does not have the others), and because I think it relies on your knowing the game canon to get anything out of it. There were some things that weren't explained that I thought should've been, but that's just a really personal niggle.
And now I'm reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. I picked it up on the flea market on Thursday because Annette had mentioned that I might like it (I think it was literally years ago, but for some reason I remembered the title). She's a good writer, I have devoured half of this book since I bought it, which is the fastest I've read a book in a long time (the last I remember reading in this way was House of Leaves, and that was a million years ago). HOWEVER. She is never-endingly obsessed with how beautiful her heroine is, and also a certain other character. I've discovered, thanks to the internet, that they end up falling in love (OH GOD PASS THE SICK BUCKET*), and the only thing they have in common is that they're disgustingly beautiful.
This, to me, is a horrible thing. I'm not saying people shouldn't fall in love, and I don't know if I'm misunderstanding, but does this mean that if you're not beautiful (or no-one has ever told you so) then you don't get to fall in love with anyone/no-one ever falls in love with you? FUCK THAT NOISE.
(I've been told I'm ugly a lot, also I have body image issues, so possible bitterness speaking but somehow I don't think so).
Other than that, though? What I've read so far is really well written, and very readable. I hope it carries on being so, but from what I read earlier, I don't think that's going to be exactly the case *sighs*
(also my library? Has the first and third books (as this is ALSO a trilogy because everything's a fucking trilogy these days) but not the second. WAY TO GO, LIBRARY).
OH BUT: a male character also looks at certain other character (who is also male because YAY HETERONORMATIVITY!) and notes that he is beautiful, but then the author comments about how finding men attractive if you're a straight man is "gay" and UGH NO WHY DID SHE THINK IT WAS OK TO WRITE THAT. This book was published in 2011, the woman is in her forties, why did she think it's OK to use gay as an insult it fucking isn't. (also the inverted commas are totally hers. I'm ugh. This could be a pretty good book if not for that and the unearthly beauty of the main protags).
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*As I said on twitter, I am a big bucket of sap myself, but it doesn't mean I want to read about romances all the time, especially not if they feel pasted on and/or wrong.