Wednesday Reading
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redrikkiIn case you missed it, last night I posted a new Batman fic,
The One You'll Know By. Go, read it. Give me praise.
In other Batman-related news, I finally got caught up on the second half of Young Justice season three. It has all the problems of season two magnified: too many characters, too big a rush to hit the plot points, and not enough development to make me care about those too many characters. I'm glad they're spending some time with Artemis, but I need more Kaldur and where the heck is Dick? I'm sticking with it, of course, if only to see where it goes, but so far I liked 3.1 better.
On to the book review. I know that some of you read several books a week. How do you do that? Are they short books? Do you have a time turned so you can spread mulch, rewind, and then read? What is the secret?
Just Finished
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin, book two in her Broken Earth Trilogy. I remain impressed by Jemisin's writing and the way she's slowly deepening the world building in the last book. She also introduces some new characters. In the last book, Essun's daughter Nassun was basically a living McGuffin. In this one, she is a full fledged character in her own right and, boy, is her story tragic.
In Essun's mind, she's the hero parent who must save her little girl from her monster of a father. As it turns out, she's abusive too. It makes sense, given her own upbringing, fears, and belief that only a certain kind of discipline can save roggas from the world, but hurts to read about her perpetuating and recreating her own abuse upon her daughter.
Up Next
The next book in the series. I got Jemisin's other series at B & N last weekend, so I might read that after, assuming I'm not burned out from the sheer tragedy of this trilogy.
The One You'll Know By. Go, read it. Give me praise.
In other Batman-related news, I finally got caught up on the second half of Young Justice season three. It has all the problems of season two magnified: too many characters, too big a rush to hit the plot points, and not enough development to make me care about those too many characters. I'm glad they're spending some time with Artemis, but I need more Kaldur and where the heck is Dick? I'm sticking with it, of course, if only to see where it goes, but so far I liked 3.1 better.
On to the book review. I know that some of you read several books a week. How do you do that? Are they short books? Do you have a time turned so you can spread mulch, rewind, and then read? What is the secret?
Just Finished
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin, book two in her Broken Earth Trilogy. I remain impressed by Jemisin's writing and the way she's slowly deepening the world building in the last book. She also introduces some new characters. In the last book, Essun's daughter Nassun was basically a living McGuffin. In this one, she is a full fledged character in her own right and, boy, is her story tragic.
In Essun's mind, she's the hero parent who must save her little girl from her monster of a father. As it turns out, she's abusive too. It makes sense, given her own upbringing, fears, and belief that only a certain kind of discipline can save roggas from the world, but hurts to read about her perpetuating and recreating her own abuse upon her daughter.
Up Next
The next book in the series. I got Jemisin's other series at B & N last weekend, so I might read that after, assuming I'm not burned out from the sheer tragedy of this trilogy.
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Date: 2019-07-18 07:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-18 07:15 pm (UTC)Like, Alabaster did it in the shittiest possible way, but finding ways to break the cycle of exploitation and trauma certainly seems to be a big thing in the series and Essun's whole family just highlights the ways it gets passed down unless you do something to stop it.
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Date: 2019-07-18 08:50 pm (UTC)Exactly. It's a story of reaction rather than action; people reacting out of pain and fear and anger for what's been done to them, deliberately or not - and when that happens on a global scale, with people repressed for their power rather than their lack of it, it has to get ugly.