Woman on the Edge of Time was a watershed book for me. I looked at things like gender expression and roles, communal living with a small footprint, and many other social ideas from a completely different perspective after reading it. The POV character's mental issues took a back seat to the other ideas for me.
Jayne: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that ought to change. Mal: Do you think it's likely to?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Beverly - Feb 01, 2017 7:58:08 pm PST #24304 of 28260
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
-t - Feb 03, 2017 6:29:05 pm PST #24305 of 28260
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My library has delivered Station Eleven unto me. Thanks for recommending, all of you who recommended (I think there were many) from 46% in.
ETA downloading a sample of Woman on the Edge of Time so I can hopefully eventually read that!
aurelia - Feb 03, 2017 7:05:13 pm PST #24306 of 28260
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I looked at things like gender expression and roles, communal living with a small footprint, and many other social ideas from a completely different perspective after reading it.
Yes! Exactly!
I loved Station Eleven, too.
Steph L. - Feb 04, 2017 10:00:14 am PST #24307 of 28260
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm slow as hell, but I just finished Cloudbound and my mind is blown. I had to re-read the description of the city (OH MY GOD) for real, 3 times because I kept thinking "...wait, is that...?!?"
hippocampus, I will never, EVER look at worldbuilding the same way again.
amych - Feb 04, 2017 10:16:09 am PST #24308 of 28260
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
tep, RIGHT????
erikaj - Feb 04, 2017 4:12:20 pm PST #24309 of 28260
Always Anti-fascist!
I am a Marge Piercy fan.
Beverly - Feb 04, 2017 6:50:23 pm PST #24310 of 28260
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I didn't enjoy the other novels of hers I read--they didn't speak to me the way Woman did. I do love her poems, though. Cutting edge Second Wave feminism.
-t - Feb 05, 2017 12:05:05 am PST #24311 of 28260
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't think I have fully taken in the end of Cloudbound, honestly, I need to re-read those descriptions a few more times, see if my brain can learn to handle the scale.
Station Eleven was terrific but is not helping my general sense of unreality much.
Now reading the latest Rivers of London. Not far enough into it to know what the plot is, really, but it is good to be back among these characters.
sumi - Feb 05, 2017 10:33:52 am PST #24312 of 28260
Art Crawl!!!
Okay- decided that since there is no easy way to get to my bookstore (local) I orded Cloudbound on Indiebound.
Also I find that listening to Smart Podcast Trashy Books inevitably increases my tbr list.
hippocampus - Feb 06, 2017 1:53:27 pm PST #24313 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
(loves you guys so hard. I really needed to read that today. Thank you