Post by Ishamaeli on Nov 25, 2015 15:53:51 GMT
According to my Goodreads, I'm currently reading
The Scandalous LadyFehr Wright by Marion Chesney, a short-ish Regency romance about the lady in question whose husband is murdered and who is presumably swept off her feet by a French ambassador-dude-thingy while they Investigate to Clear Her Name. It's pretty alright, considering it's the first Regency romance I've ever read. Luckily, whenever something sounds historically dodgy I can bookmark it and pester Fehr for answers. It suffers from instalove and too much exposition a little, I think, but not enough to make me want to throw it outta window.
Fixed on You by Laurelin Paige, a pseudo-50SOG "romance" that is awful but was free on Kindle. The FMC is a former obsessive stalker who used to fixate on her love interests and regularly attends AA. The MMC is a wealthy and assertive business BLAH BLAH BLAH, needs a fake girlfriend to avoid arranged marriage or something, does not "do" relationships but pays FMC - who's employd at the bar he bought, btw - to play-pretend and enthusiastically does her when it suits him. The overall bad quality has lead me to highlight everything I find wrong with it, with added notes.
Hint: there's a lot of highlights.
Faniuden siirtymiä: Suomalaisen science fiction -fandomin verkostot by Irma Hirsjärvi, roughly translated as Fannish Transitions: The Networks of Finnish Science Fiction Fandom. It's a study (PhD thesis, I think?) on how the Finnish SF fandom was culturally influenced by the earlier Anglo-American one, and how this is apparent in its activities and organisation, the personal experiences of people in it etc. It's a very interesting book, I'd probably have read it at some point even if I didn't need it for my thesis.
There's a couple of other things, and I recently finished a book on discourse theory, but these are the ones I've prioritised.
The Scandalous Lady
Fixed on You by Laurelin Paige, a pseudo-50SOG "romance" that is awful but was free on Kindle. The FMC is a former obsessive stalker who used to fixate on her love interests and regularly attends AA. The MMC is a wealthy and assertive business BLAH BLAH BLAH, needs a fake girlfriend to avoid arranged marriage or something, does not "do" relationships but pays FMC - who's employd at the bar he bought, btw - to play-pretend and enthusiastically does her when it suits him. The overall bad quality has lead me to highlight everything I find wrong with it, with added notes.
Hint: there's a lot of highlights.
Faniuden siirtymiä: Suomalaisen science fiction -fandomin verkostot by Irma Hirsjärvi, roughly translated as Fannish Transitions: The Networks of Finnish Science Fiction Fandom. It's a study (PhD thesis, I think?) on how the Finnish SF fandom was culturally influenced by the earlier Anglo-American one, and how this is apparent in its activities and organisation, the personal experiences of people in it etc. It's a very interesting book, I'd probably have read it at some point even if I didn't need it for my thesis.
There's a couple of other things, and I recently finished a book on discourse theory, but these are the ones I've prioritised.