30 Days of Books, Day 03-05
I skipped a few days and I’m therefore doing a quick recap of the last three. I have been blogging these every day in my Swedish blog, double posting was too bothersome. So, quick, quick, quick.
Day 03 – The best book you’ve read in the last 12 months
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan and Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts. Tender Morsels was fourteen months ago, and I’m terribly biased regarding Power and Majesty having read it several times before it was published (and Ashiol is MINE, hands off!), but I still love them more than what is probably healthy for me. For totally different reasons too.
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Day 04 – Your favorite book or series ever
Peter Pohl. Converted this to my favourite author because when I went to look up the two books of his that I love more than anything it turned out the series had FIVE books of which I only had read two, and then I fell into nostalgia about all these OTHER books of his that I love and… yeah. Sorry, though, he’s Swedish and only a few books of his are translated, and not the ones I love. Most of them exist in German though, if that helps. (It probably doesn’t.)
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Day 05 – A book or series you hate
I should really save this for later in the month because I’m not going to say a specific book here. I hate beating down on individual books, but here’s some things I hate:
Books where the woman has to be rescued/have limited choices/never makes a choice apart from what man to sleep with.
Books where sexual orientation is used as a plot device/to show oh-look-we’re-inclusive/is horribly stereotyped.
Books that claim to be feminist and or woman friendly but is really stinking of patriarchy.
Books where the heroine is doing many things (violent, tough, takes care of herself) ONLY because of sexual violence towards her in her past.
Books that could have been brilliant, had they been properly executed.
Books with endings that don’t measure up to the rest of the story. That’s just sad.
Ahem. I think you can probably guess a few books this is referring to.
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