Game of Thrones has become addicted to showing off how horrible its characters can be. It's always been lazy when it came to sexual violence, but now it's just wallowing, and has nothing to say beyond "people are mean."
If you set your story in a medieval-style world, are you obligated to treat your female characters like crap?
Gail Carriger did this on her blog, and I thought it’d be a good excuse to talk about books, which I never seem to do for some reason. Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror? Usually fantasy, but not because I exclude anything else. I like a bit of everything, and avoid drawing genre-based borders. Hardback or […]
Why should anyone care about Mikael Blomkvist when Lisbeth Salander is around?
I am a bad literary Canadian. Of the hundreds of books in my apartment, a scant few were written by Canadian authors. Many of those I have are leftovers from a Canadian Literature course I took ten years ago, and another two are Margaret Atwood books I bought with the best of intentions but still […]
In general terms, I like Margaret Atwood. She’s not my favourite author by any stretch – I’ve only ever finished one of her books, the wonderful Handmaid’s Tale – but I respect an author who’s diverse, seemingly willing to write whatever she feels like without being bound in by audience expectations. The fact she’s a […]
A brief summary of things that have been awesome over the last few weeks. Not all of these things are fucking awesome, but they are nonetheless pretty darn cool. The Complete Six Feet Under. I bought this after Christmas (I had a coupon – save $15 on a $250 box set! How could I afford […]
I don’t write about books here very much, though I’m going to try and change that. I suppose they take a lot more time, both to read and to process, than most comics and movies, and I’m very, very lazy much of the time. I also tend not to read a lot of new books […]
Why snark when others can do it for me? God bless Warren Ellis, Stuart Immonen, and Nextwave: