Read several books in the last couple days..."My Sister's Keeper", which was an interesting book about a girl who was conceived in an attempt to get cord blood cells for her sister with leukemia, and is now 13 and they're trying to get her to donate a kidney. So she sues her parents for medical emancipation. It was interesting, but not quite what I had in mind from the teaser. Plus the ending was LAME.
Also tried to read a book about Mendeleev and the periodic table, but it was all bound up in how it was a metaphor about Russia and revolutions too, or something, and I couldn't read it all.
A book about the Thomas Jefferson High School (a science and tech magnet in Northern Virginia) class of 1993, "Where are they now" kind of thing. I thought it would be interesting in a "hey, they graduated two years before me, will they make my life feel lame?". I was skimming the intro and realized I actually knew one of the people profiled. It was vaguely interesting, bits of it (wow, I'm so not a rhodes scholar like some of these people, but neither am I a dumpster-diving rail-riding anarchist...). But I think it only would've been truly interesting if it were written about my high school class, and people *I* wonder what happened to.
A young adult book about a girl whose dad is a rockstar. It was lame.
And another young adult book (I think it was called "Luna") about a trans teen, written from the point of his (her) younger sister. Which was interesting, in many ways, but also just rang false for me, somehow, how mature the characters were in a few places. It felt kind of superficial somehow, too. Which was a shame, becuase I enjoyed the author's other book, and I really want to support topics like this.
meara, is that the same Eric Garcia who wrote
Anonymous Rex?
'Cause I like that book, and didn't know he'd written any non-dinosaur-realted books.
Er...I have no idea? I've never heard of Anonymous Rex.
I've wanted to read Anonymous Rex. It sounds great. I've always loved dinosaurs.
And another young adult book (I think it was called "Luna") about a trans teen, written from the point of his (her) younger sister. Which was interesting, in many ways, but also just rang false for me, somehow, how mature the characters were in a few places. It felt kind of superficial somehow, too. Which was a shame, becuase I enjoyed the author's other book, and I really want to support topics like this.
My mother read this recently and wasn't very impressed either. She wants to write a book with a trans character, so she was trying to do a little research, but her criticisms were the same as yours, I think.
Your mom should totally write a book like that, Kate! :) I'd read it. And I bet it would be better than that one.
She wants to write a book with a trans character, so she was trying to do a little research, but her criticisms were the same as yours, I think.
The Gwen Araujo (sic?) case out here is getting a lot of press. If she's not using that as a reference she should.
Read several books in the last couple days..."My Sister's Keeper", which was an interesting book about a girl who was conceived in an attempt to get cord blood cells for her sister with leukemia, and is now 13 and they're trying to get her to donate a kidney. So she sues her parents for medical emancipation. It was interesting, but not quite what I had in mind from the teaser. Plus the ending was LAME.
Meara, did the font changes in this book make you crazy. or was it me?
The Gwen Araujo (sic?) case out here is getting a lot of press. If she's not using that as a reference she should.
Just googled Gwen Araujo. Looks like the case is about a year and a half old--is there new evidence that's just come up?
Anyway, I think part of what she'd like to do is to write a trans character that doesn't, you know, die or have horrible things happen to them. She's going to interview a tranny friend of mine for his perspective and experience, and go from there.
