The Witch of Cologne has a really awful cover. I actually resisted buying/borrowing it for a while, because the cover featured a woman in an awkwardly unlaced corset and sporting the 16th century equivalent of bed-head. but really now… Kushiel’s Dart had as raunchy a cover, and it was great fun, so I finally was all, fine, fine, because the siren call of a thoroughly [...]
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Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin has been herald as one of the finest novels of the 21st century. And it is. Yet, it is perhaps a novel that often gets overlooked because of it’s “sci-fi” billing. Don’t’ get me wrong, I ADORE sci-fi/fantasy novels. In fact, at least eight out of ten trips to my local Borders Superstore will find me ensconced amidst the aisles, [...]
Pat Conroy’s Prince of Tides is the story of a family in crisis and how the determination to keep the source of that crisis a secret almost destroys the individual members of said unit. Amazon.com offers this as plot synopsis: …it is the story of a destructive family relationship wherein a violent father abuses his wife and children. Henry Wingo is a shrimper who fishes [...]
I’ve read Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery twice, and seen the Reece Witherspoon movie once (movie pretty poor adaptation, but as a gusty, flawed heroine, Witherspoon is exactly as I imagined Becky to be), and though it didn’t resonate with me the same way Gone With the Wind/Scarlett did, Becky Sharp remains to me one of the few gutsy, flawed anti-heroines to have existed [...]
I’m currently reading Gone With the Wind for the 1038th time, and it really struck me how remarkably self-preserving the anti-heroine, Scarlett, is. She’s grown up in fabulous wealth but when bad times come, she rolls with the punches. When Atlanta is being evacuated ‘coz the Yankees are coming, she drives a wagon full of helpless people through two armies because they’re in her way. [...]
