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[labellementeuse]

Moved into my grandfather's place to housesit last night! :) Dragged sixth_light along with me and we watched the first nine episodes of Firefly, and then I read the new Tamora Pierce book, The Will of the Empress. It's a Circle book, so of course I love it, but, well, extra love for this one and I'll tell you why.



I really, really am enjoying this, and can't wait to finish it and then see Serenity- um, "can't wait" in the sense of "want it never to finish", of course. WHY WAS THIS CANCELLED, PEOPLE? *annoyed* Um, so, a few vague thoughts: Loved the banter. Really, really. Loved the theme tune, the premise is also pretty cool. Am consistently impressed by the face that there's no sound in space! Congratulations, Joss! I love all the characters except Jayne and Simon, who I can take or leave. But the show, as sixth_light said to me this morning, is more of an ensemble piece than a character piece and I like it that way. I'm fond of River- "I'm fixing your Bible. It doesn't make sense." "I tore these out of your symbol and they turned into paper." Wash and Zoe are lovely, especially together. Inara/Mal- people, I'm not supposed to be a hetshipper! Luckily, I can take or leave Simon/Kaylee, and I ADORE Kaylee. She's SHINY and I hope she stays forever and ever.


running out of time at icafe, so a few very brief thoughts on Empress


Um,okay, so, I think her dropping the fourbook format lately is kind of sad because I really really liked it with the Circle books and every time it switched POVs in this book I was reminded that we used to get a whole book of character X and I thought that was really good for like continuity and stuff so hat makes me sad. :( BUT THERE ARE PLUSES, and these are them: The gay! Or rather, the totally 100% canonical lesbianness including- and correct me if I'm wrong- CANONICAL Lark/Rosethorn. Lesbian!Daja- Okay with this but don't know how well she handled it but I am so impresed that she did: Tammy, as a popular writer of fantasy for young girls I'm impressed and I have sixty seconds leftso hitting post but. This was good.

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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I was pretty impressed myself- as I said, she's so mainstream, I guess she could afford to take the risk, but as you mentioned, the wonderful examples given us by Tortall (Alanna, Daine, Alianne) have kind of given us that impression. I think up until this book, the only girl whose personal story didn't end at getting married was Kel. Which sort of pleased me, because while I loved some of the potential guys for Kel I thought it was sort of empowering. But this is even more so- there's a lot of casual sexuality (as opposed to sex. Um, except Briar, who's a total manho; and she does take several steps to ensure that he's seen as being Very Responsible even while being, well, kind of a slut.) in this book, more than in any other except possibly the Alanna books when they were set at court. So. Hm, yeah. I too am pleased. :)

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

I went to her website looking for info about the book and read part of an interview in which she said that she'd been afraid to reveal Daja's sexual orientation. I was genuinely shocked that the books would be so popular, and so well-established as YA canon, and she would still be afraid to be, well, honest...

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I do find that really surprising- well, I wish I found it more surprising than I truly did, but I agree- her books must sell so well! And it's not like there isn't already enough sexual content in there- although admittedly not in the Circle books. :-/ It's pretty sad.