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Daily Book Meme: Day 11

Day 11 – A book you hated

Now, there are many books I’ve read that are certainly written worse. There are certain books that offend me more. I could rant about how this book makes up its own mythology as it goes along to drive the story in the direction the author wants, or seems to nail hypocritical female sexuality on the head. I could talk about how, at its core, this book is about glamorizing violence against women and missing the point of heroic sacrifice entirely.

But the author would hav...

Daily Book Meme: Day 10

Day 10 – Favorite classic book

Can someone define classic? I’m going to use ‘old and almost everyone enjoys’.

Without being certain, I think my main issue with Austen is that she has upper-class problems for her well-to-do protagonists – yes, flay me now, what with what I said about HDM two days ago and now this. With Bronte, I felt a real connection with Jane – I mean, our lives couldn’t be more different, but I liked that she was uncompromising and came from very humble roots. I need to read...

Daily Book Challenge: Day 9

Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

I’m never sure how to answer these things – I usually end up enjoying some aspect of most books; unless I go in knowing it’s bad. That’s why I try to avoid hyped-up stuff, because I like to poke and prod at the faults (one can only say “WOWEEE SO AMAZING!ONE! so many times). I’m also kind of the bad feminist who doesn’t acknowledge how hard things have been for previous generations – I work in EMS which is still 80% male (Stats...

Daily Book Challenge: Day 8

Day 08 – Most overrated book

It’s Gnosticism, people, not atheism. I know, atheism is technically a huge group of ideas, but my Keep It Simple Stupid definition of atheism s effectively naturalism – and I know there is a little bit of interpretation towards the natural world we can’t experience, even with our technology – but this series? Gnosticism.

I’m not going to bitch about how you shouldn’t leave the climatic action off screen – unless you wrote yourself into a hole and you have a first-p...

Daily Book Challenge: Day 7

Day 7 – Most underrated book

I can’t pick the best -of-the-best of underrated books because I read a lot of small press stuff, ‘specially the Canadian publisher/author stuff. There’s lots of good stuff – here’s a YA book I picked up at Keycon, and I enjoyed it – basically it’s about a repressed group of people fighting against the ruling class that has eradicated them and forced them underground, and the heroine thinks she’s going in incognito to find something. It had everything in the making...

Daily Book Challenge: Day 6

Day 06 – A book that makes you sad

The Works of Hans Christian Anderson (Matchstick Girl, The Little Mermaid)

I wasn’t sure how to answer this at first – I thought about something like Les Miserables or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and I was leaning towards Phantom of the Opera (book form only!) but the thing is, they don’t particularly make me sad. I was going to say how many it’s just that I escape through fiction and no matter what the character is going through – I’d rather be in their worl...

Pitch to Cassie, and some other Agents/Editors

If you have a manuscript that’s looking for a home, you can check out the infohere- I can’t attest to anyone besides Cassie, who is our senior editor with Champagne (Burst is an imprint, if you were unaware). Of course, you can always just hit the slush pile at Champagne any time, but I’ve always had better luck getting attention when people were saying, “Throw stuff at me.”

And yes, I’ll do the daily book challenge. Later. I have to get ready and go to work now.

Daily Book Meme: Day 5

Day 05 – A book that makes you happy

Whaaaat? It’s not my first book – it’s the first that someone thought actually had going for it though. As much as I might kvetch about how I suck or how I want to be like such and such, the fact that I got this baby out there and I didn’t have to compromise too much, I’m content. Course, getting this marketing down without looking pathetic, that’s still in the works.

Daily Book Challenge: Day 4

Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series

Apparently I should read ahead and plan before picking six different series. How about, here’s 10 series I like, and I tell you my favorite and briefly why?

The Song of the Lioness Quartette – Alanna: The First Adventure

Normally, first titles in a sequence have a tough job. From my own experience, you not only have to hook your reader almost from the get-go, you have to build your world (moreso in science-fiction, fantasy, and historical pieces) bu...

Daily Book Challenge: Day 3

Day 03 – Your favorite series

Okay, I have really no idea how to answer this one. My first thought was the series that I’m reading, but I haven’t finished them yet. My next thought was that I love long book series – I know, I should finish one before starting another – I love it when an author moves me out of a three-act structure. And I think three-act structures work very well, but I like variety.

So, here’s some of my favorite series, both finished and currently reading, that I like. I can’t...