Emily May’s review of Good Oil > Likes and Comments
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Really enjoyable. I know all about having a crush on an older co-worker :)
Lol. Who doesn't? I would go as far as to say I've experienced it a number of times:)
Justin at K-Mart, right? :D Mine was James at Dominos LOL
Well, there is more, but I was sticking with a store theme:)
P.S. I had a lot of free time and was too bookish for my peers.
Love this review, Emily :-D
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Jo :)
I can't believe all these amazing aussie books aren't more popular!
On a different note, though, isn't it weird that these kinds of age-related issues are only dealt with in contemporary fiction? And we as readers ,also, only have problems when there's no hint of paranormal and supernatural stuff going on. When it's in the world of fantastic, we take it in stride. Then it's all good and well. For instance, Rose and Dimitri from Vampire Academy have a 7 year age difference but we root for them all the same. Then there's Lord Ido and Eona from Eona- I know they don't end up together and many people weren't rooting for him(I did) but it wasn't because og the age difference. Then there's what's-his-face and what's-her-face from Poison Study with a gap of thirteen years as far as I remember and another of the extremities is the couple Savannah and Adam from Waking the Witch. I guess it's probably because they have much more pressing issues that have to be dealt with than our mundane life issues. It's not like we constantly have to look out for ninja or poison assassins or fend off pirates or hide from paranoid androids. :P
I think this is an interesting point and I've considered it before, particularly where Twilight is concerned and Edward is a century older than Bella but somehow their relationship is accepted by many. Imagine seeing a 17 year old girl with an old man who actually looks like an old man - people aren't so ready to accept such a pairing. Why? I always thought it was creepy, to be honest, but plenty of readers didn't.
Exactly! Which gives rise to another issue- it seems that usually the male interest is older. I have rarely seen the female interest being older than the male. With a few notable exceptions, of course. Megan Whalen Turner's The Queen of Attolia abd A Conspiracy of Kings abd then Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Covenant. It gives the impression that readers are more acceptable of older male characters but shy from the same when it comes to females. In all vamp fiction and such that I've read, I've never found a normal live-and-shit-and-then-die human fall for an old(but who fresh as the day she was crowned the prom queen) female vamp.
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Really enjoyable. I know all about having a crush on an older co-worker :)
Lol. Who doesn't? I would go as far as to say I've experienced it a number of times:)
Justin at K-Mart, right? :D Mine was James at Dominos LOL
Well, there is more, but I was sticking with a store theme:)P.S. I had a lot of free time and was too bookish for my peers.
Love this review, Emily :-DGlad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Jo :)I can't believe all these amazing aussie books aren't more popular!
On a different note, though, isn't it weird that these kinds of age-related issues are only dealt with in contemporary fiction? And we as readers ,also, only have problems when there's no hint of paranormal and supernatural stuff going on. When it's in the world of fantastic, we take it in stride. Then it's all good and well. For instance, Rose and Dimitri from Vampire Academy have a 7 year age difference but we root for them all the same. Then there's Lord Ido and Eona from Eona- I know they don't end up together and many people weren't rooting for him(I did) but it wasn't because og the age difference. Then there's what's-his-face and what's-her-face from Poison Study with a gap of thirteen years as far as I remember and another of the extremities is the couple Savannah and Adam from Waking the Witch. I guess it's probably because they have much more pressing issues that have to be dealt with than our mundane life issues. It's not like we constantly have to look out for ninja or poison assassins or fend off pirates or hide from paranoid androids. :P
I think this is an interesting point and I've considered it before, particularly where Twilight is concerned and Edward is a century older than Bella but somehow their relationship is accepted by many. Imagine seeing a 17 year old girl with an old man who actually looks like an old man - people aren't so ready to accept such a pairing. Why? I always thought it was creepy, to be honest, but plenty of readers didn't.
Exactly! Which gives rise to another issue- it seems that usually the male interest is older. I have rarely seen the female interest being older than the male. With a few notable exceptions, of course. Megan Whalen Turner's The Queen of Attolia abd A Conspiracy of Kings abd then Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Covenant. It gives the impression that readers are more acceptable of older male characters but shy from the same when it comes to females. In all vamp fiction and such that I've read, I've never found a normal live-and-shit-and-then-die human fall for an old(but who fresh as the day she was crowned the prom queen) female vamp.
