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Ugh. School starts back up in about a week, including my Global Women’s Studies class. Given that feminism and romance novel reading tend to result in kerfuffles of ginormous proportion, we’ll see how long it takes for the phrase “perpetuating patriarchal misogyny” to come up in conversation.
In other news, I do believe that Lilith of Demon Angel by Meljean Brook might be one of my favorite romance heroines of all time. Ever. I have a serious girl crush on this chick. I love her unashamed wickedness and her complete badassery.I do not want this book to be over, though I’m determined to finish it before the week is out so I can say I’ve been productive instead of, well, the complete lazy slob I, in fact, am.
Oh, and in Cassie Edwards: Plaigiarizer or simply misunderstood news, the situation has made Fandom Wank. I personally liked their summary of things, although that could just be because pointing and laughing at trainwrecks amuses the hell out of me. However, my favorite F_W comment is this one, in which rowleyorama suggests some further self-plaigiarizing Ms. Edwards could do. (Quoted here for the link-impaired, safe in the knowledge that I’ve sited my sources.)
“I am having a divine vision of her 2008 novel Savage Wank:
“His penis, majestic, was a long, narrow structure, fashionable and appearing to
be sixty feet or more in length and about twenty feet wide. The balls were beautifully
rounded and the sack gracefully arched. The snow-white thighs were decorate with
striking totemic designs in brilliant harmonious colors. Slow spirals of splooge
rose from one of the four and landed on an Indian guard standing by the door.”
Disclaimer: Yes, plaigiarism is important. No, I don’t think it’s especially funny. But some of the reactions to the situation are pretty laughable.
I thought I commented here, but, uh, guess I was dreaming. I’m in love with a girl too! Her name is Savitri Murray. Damn that chick ROCKS. ok. I’m better now.
Meljean writes these phenomenal heroines. I mean, her dudes are wonderful, too, but I don’t think anyone else in Romance delivers such a great balance of vulneribility, strength, humor, sexuality, and a sometimes fumbling competence (it’s weird but true, especially in Demon Moon and Night) in a lead character like she can.
Was that a run on sentence? pfft. Whatever.