sarren

A few weeks ago Dragonfly and Bunny wanted to rewatch The Hunger Games, which they'd seen at that cinema and loved. I wasn't really interested, my free time was so limited (assignments due and not well and surviving on probably too much Mersyndol) and so i was on the internet and not paying that much attention and it didn't really make much of an impression on me.

( Last week i randomly noticed that the audiobooks of the trilogy had found their way onto my computer )

Crossposts: http://sarren.livejournal.com/676820.html

Some dude just walked by my desk and said 'You are forever eating salad."* That is not ever a perception of me I thought people would have *G*.

So all my life I used to read books voraciously. And then I discovered fanzines as well and paid stupid amounts of money to have them shipped from the US.

Then the internet showed up and I never looked back. I rarely read actual books now, unless they've been physically put into my hands accompanied by a lot of nagging.

So, about six months ago

zebra363 and

ravenclaw_harpy madly pimped Robin Hobb's Assassin series at me, because they were all about the Fitz/Fool slash. Which I read, and really enjoyed - it had several strong female characters in supporting roles, though it was the usual trope of Boy Grows Up to Fulfil His Destiny. Then they gave me the next trilogy in the series, which is set in the same world, only with completely different characters, and THIS series I have absolutely LOVED.

Yes it has taken me six months to read six books. That's because I do most of my reading at traffic lights and while playing scrabble with my Grandma.

The Liveships Trilogy has a large and diverse cast of characters, more than half of which are female. And a great story, obviously! It's actually inspiring me to consider getting back into fantasy - it's obviously come a long way with female characters. \o/

*Sumo's Feta and Pumpkin, for the completists.

Crossposts: http://sarren.livejournal.com/521241.html

"the best aeroplane books ever written"

True, the characterisation is thin, sometimes the technical aspects of the plot creak, a lot of it is downright improbable. But so what? The glorious, brilliant, unstoppable narrative drive made book after book utterly compelling.