What are you reading meme...
Jul. 22nd, 2015 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxHey! I still exist. Yard work hasn't killed me yet (though it occasionally feels like it is going to).
Reading has been quite sporadic. I'm still on Johannes Cabal the Necromancer. Eh.
And for some reason I've fallen down a rabbit hole of Medieval Romance (novellas. I've been extremely pressed for time, so nothing deep or long).
One had a great premise but awful execution. (He was a bastard son set on revenge against the man who sired (and denied) him. Redemption arc. My catnip. Too bad the writing was so superficial. I wanted the father/son reconciliation explored. Unfortunately it was all tell, no show. ).
The other had an irredeemably awful premise with unfortunately adequate writing (took place in the period of Henry VIII with a hypocritical I-refuse-to-call-him-hero who deplored Henry's treatment of Catherine of Aragon but managed to treat his own wife --if anything--a hell of a lot worse! (physical and emotional abuse and taking her child away from her. It was meant to be a redemption arc; but it wasn't earned and he went a dozen bridges too far to be remotely worthy any effort of attempting forgiveness (he had a raging, unresolved Madonna/whore complex and beat his poor wife (who had been raped) so badly she was scarred for life, miscarried the rape baby, and then he took their daughter away from her. Nope. No forgiveness ever, dude). It did feature a terribly ironic conversation for when he bitched about Henry VIII preventing Princess Mary from seeing Queen Catherine. (Even he figured out it made him a hypocritical douchenozzle). And needless to say, he hated Anne Boleyn.
Anyway, hated him and loathed the wife quasi-forgiving him because in time and place she didn't have any good options available to her except relying on her husband's mercurial moods.
Reading has been quite sporadic. I'm still on Johannes Cabal the Necromancer. Eh.
And for some reason I've fallen down a rabbit hole of Medieval Romance (novellas. I've been extremely pressed for time, so nothing deep or long).
One had a great premise but awful execution. (He was a bastard son set on revenge against the man who sired (and denied) him. Redemption arc. My catnip. Too bad the writing was so superficial. I wanted the father/son reconciliation explored. Unfortunately it was all tell, no show. ).
The other had an irredeemably awful premise with unfortunately adequate writing (took place in the period of Henry VIII with a hypocritical I-refuse-to-call-him-hero who deplored Henry's treatment of Catherine of Aragon but managed to treat his own wife --if anything--a hell of a lot worse! (physical and emotional abuse and taking her child away from her. It was meant to be a redemption arc; but it wasn't earned and he went a dozen bridges too far to be remotely worthy any effort of attempting forgiveness (he had a raging, unresolved Madonna/whore complex and beat his poor wife (who had been raped) so badly she was scarred for life, miscarried the rape baby, and then he took their daughter away from her. Nope. No forgiveness ever, dude). It did feature a terribly ironic conversation for when he bitched about Henry VIII preventing Princess Mary from seeing Queen Catherine. (Even he figured out it made him a hypocritical douchenozzle). And needless to say, he hated Anne Boleyn.
Anyway, hated him and loathed the wife quasi-forgiving him because in time and place she didn't have any good options available to her except relying on her husband's mercurial moods.
