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meganbmooreAm headed off for relative things…momentarily. And working on Friday in between families, so who knows when/if I’ll be on. (Probably Thursday night, at least.) A few things to tide you over:
1. Why did I not know about these books before? I must have them.
2. I am watching season 5 of Babylon 5. There is a new character named Byron who I think is Fabio’s slightly-less-unattractive clone. He always has perfectly blow-dried, silky hair that is perfectly styled. Like, it defies the universe to try to have a single hair be out of place, even when he’s getting beat up. I have to mock the hair or I’ll spend the entirety of every scene he’s in going “shut up, Byron,” and he tends to have scenes with characters I like. A recent scene with him gave me the unique experience of wanting to stab out my eyes with a hot poker. A first for Babylon 5. G’Kar is nobly attempting to make it better, but he can only do so much.
3. Some interesting posts about manhwa and manga. I remember disliking most manhwa when I started reading manga, and so read very little of it until a couple years ago. I looked at some of the manhwa I had tried and disliked then, and still didn't care for it, which is probably a result of availability, and the fact that there's more variety available licensed now. Which is a good excuse to mention Manga Bookshelf's Manhwa Monday, which is an ongoing series about the various manhwa currently available in the U.S.
4. Somewhat related, I’ve been looking at some of the more decent doramas the last few days, and it’s funny. When I first started watching them, it seemed that, period dramas aside, almost all the subbed kdramas were romantic comedies and/or angstfests that slowly (or quickly) devolved into men angsting and women crying, and jdramas had all sorts of plotlines covering pretty much everything. Now subbed kdramas seem to have more variety, and most subbed jdramas seem to be vehicles for the currently popular skinny teen popstars and/or not-amazing-looking adaptations of shoujo. There’s something of a drifting interest going on on my part.
5. Why the white-focused approach to feminism is flawed.
6. The Quileute tribe in Twilight is totally as made up as sparkly vampires. Except not. Sadly, more people have heard of the sparkly vampires. (Uhm...I knew the Quileute tribe existed! But not that they were in Twilight!)
7. At the recent booksale, I got a box of Arabesque books. This is a line of contemporary romance novels written by black women with black protagonists. I was looking at some of them the other day and noticed that almost all had at least one of the following: (A) heroine wants to be a singer, (B) hero is a lawyer, (C) one is a super-serious business person, the other a passionate activist. As most of my romantic fiction is historicals, I’m curious: is this the current trend in most contemporary romances, or is it more centered on the Arabesque line? (Also, if you live in the continental US and are looking for one, let me know, and I’ll see if I have. It’s very rare that I’m in the mood for contemporary romances, and I got I think 30 of them so it could take me a long time to get through them. The books are warped, but in pretty decent condition.)
1. Why did I not know about these books before? I must have them.
2. I am watching season 5 of Babylon 5. There is a new character named Byron who I think is Fabio’s slightly-less-unattractive clone. He always has perfectly blow-dried, silky hair that is perfectly styled. Like, it defies the universe to try to have a single hair be out of place, even when he’s getting beat up. I have to mock the hair or I’ll spend the entirety of every scene he’s in going “shut up, Byron,” and he tends to have scenes with characters I like. A recent scene with him gave me the unique experience of wanting to stab out my eyes with a hot poker. A first for Babylon 5. G’Kar is nobly attempting to make it better, but he can only do so much.
3. Some interesting posts about manhwa and manga. I remember disliking most manhwa when I started reading manga, and so read very little of it until a couple years ago. I looked at some of the manhwa I had tried and disliked then, and still didn't care for it, which is probably a result of availability, and the fact that there's more variety available licensed now. Which is a good excuse to mention Manga Bookshelf's Manhwa Monday, which is an ongoing series about the various manhwa currently available in the U.S.
4. Somewhat related, I’ve been looking at some of the more decent doramas the last few days, and it’s funny. When I first started watching them, it seemed that, period dramas aside, almost all the subbed kdramas were romantic comedies and/or angstfests that slowly (or quickly) devolved into men angsting and women crying, and jdramas had all sorts of plotlines covering pretty much everything. Now subbed kdramas seem to have more variety, and most subbed jdramas seem to be vehicles for the currently popular skinny teen popstars and/or not-amazing-looking adaptations of shoujo. There’s something of a drifting interest going on on my part.
5. Why the white-focused approach to feminism is flawed.
6. The Quileute tribe in Twilight is totally as made up as sparkly vampires. Except not. Sadly, more people have heard of the sparkly vampires. (Uhm...I knew the Quileute tribe existed! But not that they were in Twilight!)
7. At the recent booksale, I got a box of Arabesque books. This is a line of contemporary romance novels written by black women with black protagonists. I was looking at some of them the other day and noticed that almost all had at least one of the following: (A) heroine wants to be a singer, (B) hero is a lawyer, (C) one is a super-serious business person, the other a passionate activist. As most of my romantic fiction is historicals, I’m curious: is this the current trend in most contemporary romances, or is it more centered on the Arabesque line? (Also, if you live in the continental US and are looking for one, let me know, and I’ll see if I have. It’s very rare that I’m in the mood for contemporary romances, and I got I think 30 of them so it could take me a long time to get through them. The books are warped, but in pretty decent condition.)