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I think I forgot to mention when I finished "Mirror, Mirror." (Or maybe I did. I can't remember.) It was conceptually interesting, but the Snow White character suffered from lack of development. But the Wicked Queen character (Lucrezia Borgia) was obviously the one Maguire found interesting. The bit where she was intending to seduce her (adult) son, and saw it as a necessary step in child-rearing (you introduce them to the adult world) reminded me of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daegaer's Schwartz-fic. :) The dwarves as rock spirits were interesting, but I was surprised how often their mutable house seemed to take on aspects that really reverberated of Disney. Also, I thought he went out of his way to make things be 'gritty,' although he made no attempt at realism, and the two don't seem to go together. With more realism the grit would have worked better; it would have made sense.
I finished "Thank you, Jeeves" day before yesterday, I think, and yes there's masses of subtext, buttootsiemuppet already covered most of that when she gave us the lyrics to "What Is This Thing Called Love", and when anima_mecanique passed on her quotes (one of Nature's bachelors / doesn't like finding girls in his room / sighs wistfully about Jeeves). *loves tootsiemuppet's quote compiling and research skills* <--which was what made me read this book right now. Cool book, really. I especially liked the realization Bertie has, in the midst of all the comedy, that it's not so easy walking around with black skin.
Now I'm reading Jules Verne, "the Mysterious Island." Thus far he suffers from overuse of exclamation points, and certain improbabilities (a dog climbing rope netting in a high gale, people loitering in a city square in the middle of a storm and not being noticed). However, slashy subtext seems inevitable, with all these Mary Sue-esque characters. Especially the freed slave who insists on remaining a servant to the leader dude and tracks him down at great peril to his own life to join him inside the besieged confederate capital during the Civil War. (All that happens before the book begins, just to exemplify the good-looking, intelligent, physically fit and 'graceful' Neb's devotion to the good-looking, intelligent and physically fit Cyrus.)
I've had the CDdaegaer sent me in my car for weeks, now, and I woke up in the mornings with different songs off it running through my head. :) (*hums* "I've got a pretty little bungalow...") I decided yesterday it might be a good idea to listen to the radio a bit, to get exposed to something different.
daegaer's Schwartz-fic. :) The dwarves as rock spirits were interesting, but I was surprised how often their mutable house seemed to take on aspects that really reverberated of Disney. Also, I thought he went out of his way to make things be 'gritty,' although he made no attempt at realism, and the two don't seem to go together. With more realism the grit would have worked better; it would have made sense. I finished "Thank you, Jeeves" day before yesterday, I think, and yes there's masses of subtext, but
tootsiemuppet already covered most of that when she gave us the lyrics to "What Is This Thing Called Love", and when anima_mecanique passed on her quotes (one of Nature's bachelors / doesn't like finding girls in his room / sighs wistfully about Jeeves). *loves tootsiemuppet's quote compiling and research skills* <--which was what made me read this book right now. Cool book, really. I especially liked the realization Bertie has, in the midst of all the comedy, that it's not so easy walking around with black skin. Now I'm reading Jules Verne, "the Mysterious Island." Thus far he suffers from overuse of exclamation points, and certain improbabilities (a dog climbing rope netting in a high gale, people loitering in a city square in the middle of a storm and not being noticed). However, slashy subtext seems inevitable, with all these Mary Sue-esque characters. Especially the freed slave who insists on remaining a servant to the leader dude and tracks him down at great peril to his own life to join him inside the besieged confederate capital during the Civil War. (All that happens before the book begins, just to exemplify the good-looking, intelligent, physically fit and 'graceful' Neb's devotion to the good-looking, intelligent and physically fit Cyrus.)
I've had the CD
daegaer sent me in my car for weeks, now, and I woke up in the mornings with different songs off it running through my head. :) (*hums* "I've got a pretty little bungalow...") I decided yesterday it might be a good idea to listen to the radio a bit, to get exposed to something different.