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Jun. 30th, 2010 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuseLast week I read my 65th new book of the year! This is notable because last year I only read 64 new books (I do not count re-reads and I do not count novel-length fanfiction.) My 65th book was The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex, and rather than review it I'm going to link to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
karenhealey's review: "So this is an excellent, deeply serious farcical science fiction alien invasion road trip romp about colonisation*, the ethics of war, the horrors of invasion, the beauty of empathy, and the construction, demystification and paranoia of the Other..."
The other really stand-out book I read last week was Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich's 8th Grade Super Zero, which I can't recommend enough. I don't know why books about middle-school elections are so universally fabulous, but they seem to be (full disclosure: the only other one I've read is The Misfits, by James Howe.)
Today I'm reading Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy (thank youcaramarie, who lent it to me). Towards the end of the novel, but I hope non-spoilery, is a quote that I'm pulling out and sharing because I think it exemplifies the concept of women in refrigerators, why it's bad, and what creators can do to guard against it. (Names have been excised so it's not spoilery. Bold emphasis mine, italic his..)
That can pretty much stand as is, I think. I just wanted to shout out to what I think is a very good, very simple analysis of the problem.
karenhealey's review: "So this is an excellent, deeply serious farcical science fiction alien invasion road trip romp about colonisation*, the ethics of war, the horrors of invasion, the beauty of empathy, and the construction, demystification and paranoia of the Other..."The other really stand-out book I read last week was Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich's 8th Grade Super Zero, which I can't recommend enough. I don't know why books about middle-school elections are so universally fabulous, but they seem to be (full disclosure: the only other one I've read is The Misfits, by James Howe.)
Today I'm reading Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy (thank you
caramarie, who lent it to me). Towards the end of the novel, but I hope non-spoilery, is a quote that I'm pulling out and sharing because I think it exemplifies the concept of women in refrigerators, why it's bad, and what creators can do to guard against it. (Names have been excised so it's not spoilery. Bold emphasis mine, italic his..)"He used my wife and child as a weapon against me. In order to do so, he had to kill them. He took my family's death and he made it about me. When you die, it will be your death and yours alone. Let it come to you on your own terms."
-- Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant (HarperCollins: London 2007), p 344
That can pretty much stand as is, I think. I just wanted to shout out to what I think is a very good, very simple analysis of the problem.
