Mar. 20th, 2008

twincityhacker: hands in an overcoat's pockets (Coffee)
I have two lesbian mysteries, and a a lesbian historical fiction. ( Is it obvious I went to the GLBT library today? ) Hopefully they'll be better than some of the other books I've tried reading lately.

"The International Penguin book of Gay Writing": most of the selections were boring, full of woman!hate, or just plain ICK like the gender-reversed version of Lolita. The good parts where an excerpt from the Symposium, a journal extract detailing a party of Michelangelo's, and an essay on Greek myth.

Stella Duffy's "The Wavewalker" problem is that it's told non-linearly. So you know who did it, how they did it, and what's the probable outcome of the novel within the first few chapters. And while the details are somewhat interesting on how they get to the end, not interesting enough not to just flip to the back, see if you're right about the ending, and put down the book.

"Eight Spanish Play's" issue was really, really bad translations. One of the defining features of Spanish drama of the Golden Age was that it was all metered - and the translation didn't bother trying to get at that.

I've already mentioned my problems with "Only Human."
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