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Jan. 23rd, 2011 01:37 pmYesterday on my way home, I had car trouble (I was able to get it started then and again today, but I'm planning to take it in when I get the chance). I drove through the snow, hoping my car would make it home, which it did, and then as soon as I got indoors, I started getting a migraine. Yrrrrgh!
Anyway, I got a few more chores done today. What I really want to do is post about books, but I'm afraid that doing a long post might make the headache come back. Anyway, I'm reading The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (managed to get through "Coming of Age in Karhide" and "The Matter of Seggri" before Yrrrrrgh! set in) and Rosemary and Rue (already read the sequel, A Local Habitation, so spoilers aren't really a factor there). The latter is, wonder of wonders, urban fantasy with a female main character who a) is fully clothed on the covers of both books and b) is not the Only Worthy Woman in the World. She even has a complicated, basically loving but intriguingly strained, future-plot-point-screaming relationship with her mother instead of her father. There do seem to be a lot of female characters getting killed or endangered, though. Then again, these books seem to have more female characters, and more of them with distinctive personalities and abilities, and more of them openly playing politics and working on weird schemes, than most fantasy books I've seen. Female characters get targeted because of their own actions, not just to cause indirect pain to male characters, and there are still plenty of female characters left over too. So maybe it just feels a little off to me because I'm so used to the murders of female characters carrying more problematic meanings.
Anyway, I got a few more chores done today. What I really want to do is post about books, but I'm afraid that doing a long post might make the headache come back. Anyway, I'm reading The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (managed to get through "Coming of Age in Karhide" and "The Matter of Seggri" before Yrrrrrgh! set in) and Rosemary and Rue (already read the sequel, A Local Habitation, so spoilers aren't really a factor there). The latter is, wonder of wonders, urban fantasy with a female main character who a) is fully clothed on the covers of both books and b) is not the Only Worthy Woman in the World. She even has a complicated, basically loving but intriguingly strained, future-plot-point-screaming relationship with her mother instead of her father. There do seem to be a lot of female characters getting killed or endangered, though. Then again, these books seem to have more female characters, and more of them with distinctive personalities and abilities, and more of them openly playing politics and working on weird schemes, than most fantasy books I've seen. Female characters get targeted because of their own actions, not just to cause indirect pain to male characters, and there are still plenty of female characters left over too. So maybe it just feels a little off to me because I'm so used to the murders of female characters carrying more problematic meanings.