D’s Comments (group member since Mar 04, 2019)

D’s comments from the We Read Stuff group.

I’m probably not going to actually get to read this until early next month. I am supposed to re-read the shining for another group challenge next month and I was planning on doing that early so I could do this this month but then life happened, lots of chaos and I’d like to read them in order so it looks like early next month is when I’ll get around to this one.

The first time I read this, a few years ago I really liked it. But in trying to re-read it recently I just kept getting annoyed at clichés and what felt like a lazy characterization. I don’t know how much of that is me and how much of that is the book just not holding up well to re-reading. I did feel like the 80s references were fun but there are so many other places to get that nostalgia fix now. I will give this book credit though because I feel like it was slightly ahead of the curve on that particular trend.

Urban fantasy and steam punk are probably my two favorite sub genres. Though honestly, I like all the things. I probably read more female writers in general than male writers largely because I find that male writers frequently have trouble writing complex female characters. And badly written women make me irritable.
And the two connected tropes that I find most frustrating our instant love and faded saviors. I like characters that make choices. Whether those choices are relationships or fighting for a particular cause.

Loved it. Drawing down the moon.

I’ve done a few kink demos as part of lessons. But this year we are doing Norwescon outer limits and balticon for sure. We’ll probably do a few others in the Florida and Georgia area, flpolycon next couple of weeks definitely because it’s an easy day trip. I did Dragon con almost every year for a decade but haven’t in the last few years. There’s a resort takeover in Mexico that my girl and I would like to do next year but that’s not a sci-fi thing. They do have costumes though and since I take my costumes seriously I have to start making space allotments now.

Hello everyone. I’m D. I am 29 and I live in Florida with One of my primary partners and her parents and our slowly expanding collection of animals. We just moved. There are lots of strays. I am sneaking at least two more cats in, I’m just saying. I read all kinds of books but particularly a lot of sci-fi fantasy horror queerer novels and cookbooks. When I am not reading, I am usually working, as a sex educator and PSO (which means I spend an in ordinate amount of time having strange conversations over the Internet) caring for the animals, gardening, cooking, crafting, and as much as I can manage planning trips to Syfy conventions. I am also a person of color and a person with both visible and invisible disabilities, if that sort of thing is important and a polyamorous person and a pagan. So, you know, all the things. Anyway, I look forward to getting to talk with and to get to know all of you. Don’t hesitate to say hi.