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Post by Marina on Jan 11, 2012 18:29:53 GMT -5
These scarves are making me wish I actually liked Jane Austen... She has scarves that quote things other than Jane Austen... or will anyway.
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Post by Marina on Jan 9, 2012 22:59:43 GMT -5
That's just... sick.
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Post by Marina on Jan 9, 2012 22:31:09 GMT -5
Although it can't be as bad as when my mother created an account and saw that I was reading the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, and started questioning me about what it is. I made something up. I could only hope she wouldn't click on it and go read the summary about the fact that it's basically BDSM erotica. (I don't think she did, thank goodness.) I was recommended that series by a girl who'd borrowed them from her mother (with her permission and knowledge and EVERYTHING). I read them. They were so awful. It made me physically uncomfortable with the pure terribleness of them -- not that I have any trouble with graphic BDSM erotica, but because they did it so poorly. Nonconsensual = NOT OKAY. Even in BDSM, the nonconsensualness is an act agreed upon ahead of time by everyone involved. So when the Prince is all "Imma rape you now!" and Beauty's like "NOT OKAY. I mean, it's waking up lustiness and whatnot, but still, THIS HURTS AND I AM UNHAPPY WITH IT," that is rape. Also, y'know, lack of safewords and preordained limits and all those good things. Basically, it just breaks every rule ever for BDSM, and it was really not okay, but I kept reading them anyway. They were like a trainwreck you can't stop watching. /soapbox Maybe she was just going along with the original story? The one in which Sleeping Beauty was actually raped by the prince, and then he leaves her and she wakes up from labor pains. I mean, these stories were not intended for children until the Grimms cleaned them up. ///Edit/// : FUCK YOU GUYS!!! You made me as curious as a cat so I looked it up and started reading it. My expression the whole time @o@ ... got to page 5 I think...
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Post by Marina on Jan 9, 2012 18:23:02 GMT -5
I think someone on Tumblr or LJ is trying to make a timeline for the story, but I unfortunately don't have the link.
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Post by Marina on Jan 9, 2012 18:01:00 GMT -5
I really like the show too, I like the twists and turns and figuring out who everyone is. But, call me dumb, I do not understand the time-progression... or not entirely. The town was frozen, but some people aged some didn't, someone was pregnant for 28 freaken years. I do not envy her.
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Post by Marina on Jan 9, 2012 17:27:51 GMT -5
Finished the Immortals series. It's very different from the others, and I like it. It's interesting to look at the battles and politics from the outside. Diane never gets that involved or at least we don't see it, until the very end when she finally kicks some ass. I think one of you already mentioned it before too.
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Post by Marina on Jan 8, 2012 22:47:41 GMT -5
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Post by Marina on Jan 8, 2012 22:42:36 GMT -5
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Post by Marina on Jan 8, 2012 21:26:13 GMT -5
You know, even if Daine does spend a lot of time with nobility-- it's mostly Numair and the other weirdos... and by weirdos I obviously mean all the cool people that are considered weirdoes by everyone else in the books. But we barely get a glimpse of any of them really, they may appear in small scenes, but otherwise they're only mentioned in the passing.
I also wish there was more interaction between Numair and her. I mean in book one she's thirteen... too early for anything more than paternal relationship. In the second book she's thirteen going on fourteen, still a bit young and they spend most of the book separated. Though the ending is sweet since he's all so worried about her. In the third book she's what, fourteen going on fifteen? Still a bit young, but Numair is already going all territorial. Also, I've made a point to track their relationship, and besides occasional bits of jealousy Daine isn't really into him. I guess she still sees him mostly as a teacher/friend. In the final book, and I'm only a little over 100 pages in, I'm starting to see somewhat a beginning of a more romantic relationship. There was this one moment actually "Puzzled, confused--feeling as if she'd glimpsed something important, only to have it vanish--Daine trotted to catch up" (Immortals, Book 4, Page 109)-- I think this is pretty it for them, or her at least, the moment... actually a little bit up "She smiled into his face, so close to her own just then. Briefly, his eyes changed; a strange, burning excitement filled them, and made her catch her breath" (109)... Good lord, this is the moment where I flail my arms and squeal.
Also, I've spoiled myself enough to know they kiss in this book. Also, possible library sex. If there isn't some nice, against a bookshelf grinding, I'm going to be very disappointed.
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Post by Marina on Jan 8, 2012 1:12:05 GMT -5
I keep hearing that Pottermore is kind of lame. And yeah, I kind of wished it would open, but at the same time I'm glad it's not because I just don't want to be sucked into that madness. I'm so over Harry Potter. They need to make Tamora Pierce movies.
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Post by Marina on Jan 8, 2012 0:59:34 GMT -5
I'm finally reading The Immortals series. I thought the War between them would span through all the books, since they make such a big deal out of in Protector of the Small. Or she'd make the struggle more apparent, but she just kind of mentions it in the passing. I just finished book 3.
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Post by Marina on Dec 31, 2011 18:35:57 GMT -5
Guys, guys, I just finished Finnikin of the Rock. You need to go and get it and read it. You won't regret it. It was the best.
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Post by Marina on Dec 30, 2011 22:57:19 GMT -5
I'm reading Finnikin of the Rock. I can tell it's going to be my favorite book. I'm only a quarter of the way through. Guys, it tears your heart out from the beginning... and you kind of like it. That's how good it is.
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Post by Marina on Dec 30, 2011 18:17:46 GMT -5
So, guys, like them, hate them?
I hear mixed things about them, some are horrid, others are amazing.
Any favorites?
I listened to the first chapter of Dracula read by Michael Fassbender... but honestly I was just listening to his voice, not the story.
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Post by Marina on Dec 30, 2011 17:54:21 GMT -5
Welcome to the Fez. I like long sentences too.
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