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November 2, 2012

Linkspam, 11/2/12 Edition

Wishbone and the Illustrated Classics series have gotten me through every conversation I've ever had about Dickens, Treasure Island, The Anarchist's Cookbook, and Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Fifty Shades

Linkspam is a bit light this week due to me getting distracted by Hurricane Sandy and spending way too much time looking at weather websites and not as much time trawling for links.

  • New Yorker trolls the nerds or Triumph of the State Nick Mamatas on this article.
  • An Open Letter to E-Book Retailers: Let’s have a return to common sense
  • Doing Justice to Desire A wonderful discussion of an older Mills & Boon novel that I may have to try to find a copy of.  I know that I am often dismissive of category romances and I need to be better about giving them a fair shake.
  • The Curse of the Sympathetic Character Interesting perspective on sympathetic characters and how, so often, female characters are forced into a sympathetic mode even if hurts the story. The comments are worth reading, too.
  • Something else like…Heinlein Jo Walton starts a new series at Tor.com that is all about the recommendations.
  • Writing sex: Who’s your horny reader? Jennifer Stevenson on different kinds of sex scenes.
  • Amazon is deleting reviews of “competing products” I’m assuming this has to do with Amazon wanting to eliminate the practice of authors reviewing each other’s books. Seems a bit ham-fisted to me, though.
  • When Contemporary Romance Goes Wrong: Some DNF Reviews
  • A Zombie is a Slave Forever “[The zombie]…is a New World phenomenon that arose from the mixture of old African religious beliefs and the pain of slavery.” This is fascinating.
  • In Defence of Twilight Absolutely brilliant analysis by Kit Whitfield. Her most recent novel, In Great Waters, is also brilliant.

And if you can, a monetary donation to the American Red Cross is money well-spent–they are one of the few charities with the know-how and supply chain in place to provide relief in situations such as Hurricane Sandy.

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  1. donna says

    November 2, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    I loved that New Yorker article, but not in a good way. More for the shitty tone the guy takes, and the deep deep irony that none of those blowhards can see that “literary fiction”? Just another genre…

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