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This book is written in blood.
Is it written entirely in blood?
No, some of it is written in tears.
Are the blood and tears all mine?
Yes, they have been in the past. But the future is a different matter. As the bear swore in Pogo after having endured a pot shoved on her head, being turned upside down while still in the pot, a discussion about her edibility, the lawnmowering of her behind, and a fistful of ground pepper in the snoot, she then swore a mighty oath on the ashes of her mothers (i.e., he ...more
Is it written entirely in blood?
No, some of it is written in tears.
Are the blood and tears all mine?
Yes, they have been in the past. But the future is a different matter. As the bear swore in Pogo after having endured a pot shoved on her head, being turned upside down while still in the pot, a discussion about her edibility, the lawnmowering of her behind, and a fistful of ground pepper in the snoot, she then swore a mighty oath on the ashes of her mothers (i.e., he ...more
Jan 28, 2010
Kelly (Maybedog)
marked it as maybe
I took a writing class from Joanna Russ and didn't know who she was until halfway through the course. I've still never read her books. I'm kind of embarrassed...
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In Thomas Disch's maddening essay "Can Girls Play Too? Feminizing SF," he describes a compliment Heinlein paid to Russ by omitting her from a list of 29 female SF writers. He likes her strategy of "hypothesizing women who can cope in a man's world rather than, as Le Guin would have it, remodeling human nature on a maternal template." That description makes me think either I'm missing something here or he is.
I need to process this book before I write about it. ...more
I need to process this book before I write about it. ...more
This book has a great premise. It has many scenes, with interesting dialog. Occasionally it shows hints of having a plot. Unfortunately, none of them are tied together in a way that makes sense.
I agree with most of the author's complaints about how suffocatingly sexist the world can be. It's enough to drive a person crazy. Which is perhaps what she was trying to express all the times she stopped telling the story and spewed words randomly onto the page.
The transphobic tendencies towards the end ...more
I agree with most of the author's complaints about how suffocatingly sexist the world can be. It's enough to drive a person crazy. Which is perhaps what she was trying to express all the times she stopped telling the story and spewed words randomly onto the page.
The transphobic tendencies towards the end ...more
May 20, 2016
Eva Mostraum
rated it
it was amazing
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