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secretfanspace"The thing about illegally breeding fire-breathing possums is that you gotta keep a bucket of water handy."
*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*
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*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*
(Context: https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/1839.html?thread=2678831#cmt2678831)
Talk fandom! Making things! Reading, writing, drawing, whatever! Miscellaneous life chatter! Meme's happy to see you again!
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Re: Books - The Golden Enclaves (Naomi Novik)
Date: 2023-01-14 01:24 am (UTC)Also this is dumb but because I was just reading a book about hospice care, the mention of trading something like an eye for 20 years of life if one has cancer annoyed me because a whole bunch of people with cancer lose eyes etc and don't get 20 more years, or anything, so the calculation felt too neat/cheap. I generally like the mechanics in these books so that one stuck out a bit. I have a weird medical association with them because when I started reading the series I was at a hospital appointment for a friend getting a scan (turned out to be benign!). So probably stuck out even more to me for odd reasons.
Re: Books - The Golden Enclaves (Naomi Novik)
Date: 2023-01-14 01:34 am (UTC)Man just hit the perfect example of what exasperates me with this series.
A few pages back, we get a great anecdote, where she talks about how instead of playing hide and seek, the other kids would play "hide from El" and she would go along even though she knew she was the butt of the joke because it was still better than nothing. That felt very real, and you feel a lot of sympathy.
Then a few pages later, she compares wanting something she can't have to having her face pressed up against the window of a cake shop. It's the most bland, thoughtless cliche ever. And the sentence is kinda purple, "easy sweetness I couldn't buy".
It's such an odd mix of good writing and terrible writing and I can't work out how it came out that way. It's annoying feeling like these books could have been really good, but nearly every good paragraph will have a messed up mirror somewhere. I don't understaaaaaand.