Sara Raasch's Blog, page 422
November 12, 2014
futuresandfairytales:
Pics from last night’s event at McNally...
Pics from last night’s event at McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan! We had SUCH a fun time! (obviously)
top, l-r: Sara Raasch, Claire Legrand, Sarah Fine (photo credit Jeremy West)
bottom right: after the event, as exhaustion starts to settle in (not sure where Claire is looking in this pic)
onebittersea:
Library book haul!
…maybe it’s too much? Will I...
Library book haul!
…maybe it’s too much? Will I be able to read them all before the due date?
Stay tuned!
BOOKS!
"It’s not just that Gilmore Girls unfailingly left the Bechdel Test crying in the dust each and every..."
It’s not just that Gilmore Girls unfailingly left the Bechdel Test crying in the dust each and every episode. It’s that Gilmore Girls is an early successful example of everything Hollywood’s Exclusion Myth tells us isn’t supposed to be possible: a narrative built around women and women’s plots, relationships, and conflicts—one that successfully engages a wide demographic and doesn’t have the “excuse” of being a blockbuster action-adventure serving as an exception to a widely held rule.
Gilmore Girls probably owes its failure to attract widespread acclaim despite running for seven seasons to the traditional cultural devaluation of female-driven genre media, whether it comes in the form of Young Adult fiction, women’s fiction, or female-led Hollywood narratives. Given that Gilmore combined elements of all of the above, it’s no wonder the only Emmy it ever received was for Outstanding Makeup.
”- Aja Romano (bookshop), '7 ways 'Gilmore Girls' got women right' (via dailydot)
November 11, 2014
shelfieblog:
Book Haul!
20% off books is a deal that doesn’t...
Book Haul!
20% off books is a deal that doesn’t happen that often, so I took advantage. Plus THE BANE CHRONICLES!!!!! So excited to finally discover what exactly happened in Peru
October Book Haul
This is my late-but-better-than-never October Book Haul! Over the course of the entire month, I got 12 physical books and 5 ebooks. First off, you can see some classics such as Catch 22, The Idiot and Metamorphosis and Other Stories as well as a beautiful (both on the inside and on the ouside)…
Tonight at 7PM! Come to McNally Jackson in NYC to see the next...
Tonight at 7PM! Come to McNally Jackson in NYC to see the next stop on the Futures & Fairy Tales Tour!
readandshelved:
"That’s why literature is so fascinating. It’s...
"That’s why literature is so fascinating. It’s always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It’s never the same thing twice."
- Theron, Snow Like Ashes (Sara Raasch)
November 10, 2014
I’ll be at the Marketfair Barnes & Noble in Princeton,...
I’ll be at the Marketfair Barnes & Noble in Princeton, NJ tonight at 7PM for Claire Legrand’s Futures and Fairy Tales Tour! Come say hi!
LOVE YOUR BOOK
But seriously, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
November 9, 2014
requested by anon
These two tho.
requested by anon
These two tho.
