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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, assixth_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.
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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Date: 2005-11-15 05:39 pm (UTC)I've heard of Tom/Carl, but haven't found the books anywhere. They sound really interesting, and not just because of the couple.
I think it's Daja's butchness that made me not suspect, actually. Because mostly her tomboy types end up in relationships with guys. But hee. I love when that sort of thing happens.
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Date: 2005-11-20 02:54 am (UTC)Oh, you should totally try to find them, they might be your thing and the fandom's lovely, although tiny- hmm, I'm not sure where you live, but if it's Wellington or Christchurch the public libraries in both of those have all the books to date, I think- the first one's So You Want to Be A Wizard. Sadly they're really hard to find in New Zealand because they haven't been published here since they first published the British editions, which weirdly didn't do too well and got canned. :(
That's true... mind you usually her main characters aren't lesbian so. :P
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Date: 2005-11-21 07:19 am (UTC)I checked the online catalogue for the local libraries and they have a couple of her books in the adult section. Not sure if that'll be them, though.
It'll have been because of stigma about wizard books. Even now, it's Harry Potter and a few select others, but most of those aren't about wizards.
*grin*