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[skygiants]

IN OTHER OTHER NEWS: I have vowed I won't do any memes on tumblr that I don't do on DW too, because DW IS SO MUCH BETTER FOR IT, so:

Let’s play Burn Read Rewrite.
It’s like Kill Fuck Marry, but with books.

So, we've all played Kill/Fuck/Marry on here before, you know the drill, let's go! Let me know if you want me to give you three books back, after the three you give me. :D

Open all day tomorrow probably as well as tonight because, like, what else am I going to be doing except sitting on the couch attempting to be a good recovering invalid.

Comments

[evewithanapple]

. . . you know, I was just about to say "but The Awakening is the LAST book in the series!" but then I checked and realized it was actually the middle one. D'OH.

(Also I would like three too!)

[skygiants]

ALL THE TITLES SOUND THE SAME. I had to check on Amazon. Anyway: ha, thwarted!

And, OK, for you ... for you. Lesbian edition! Fingersmith, Santa Olivia, Hexslingers (I read it all as one book, so it counts all as one book!)

[evewithanapple]

Well I haven't actually read Fingersmith, so that makes that easy: onto the pyre it goes! Which leaves me to rewrite Hexslingers (dear to my heart though it is, you're right, it could use some . . . um . . . fixing) and reread Santa Olivia, darling dystopia of my heart.

[skygiants]

How have you not read Fingersmith?!

[evewithanapple]

I don't know! I've actually never read any Sarah Waters. I am aware that this is a TRAGIC GAP in my reading catalogue, but since I've finished Emma Donoghue's books, I'll probably start with Tipping the Velvet.

I'd ask you about Emma Donoghue but I don't know if you've read any of hers, so: Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity!

[skygiants]

OK, joke's on me now: of all Sarah Waters' books, I've actually only read Fingersmith. >.> (Only one Emma Donoghue, also. I KNOW.) But I can still do this! So Fingersmith gets the read slot, obviously, because ... I love it and it's great. Burn Affinity because I hear it's super depressing, and rewrite Tipping the Velvet because, like, could I write an amazing book about lesbian music hall performers? YES I COULD. Would it be anything like Tipping the Velvet? PROBABLY NOT. But I could STILL WRITE THAT BOOK.

Let's go back to classics, now: Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Les Mis!

[rymenhild]

Two out of three of these books are unknown to me. Tell me more.

[skygiants]

I wish I had more to tell you but I haven't actually read Santa Olivia yet! I know it's by the lady who wrote the Kushiel books and it's near-future semi-dystopia about wrestling lesbians. ... kickboxing lesbians? ... golfing lesbians? ... SPORTS LESBIANS. Anyway it's on my list!

As far as the Hexslingers books go, I provide you with three views of Hexslingers.

[luzula]

Boxing lesbians! Well, only one of them boxes, but whatever. I loved it, but I know others who didn't, so opinions are divided.

[evewithanapple]

Becca already linked to my post on Hexslingers, so I'll just cover Santa Olivia: it's sort of a dystopia, sort of a sports book and sort of a revolution book. It's set in a tiny border town that's been cordoned off from the rest of the world and put under military rule and this one girl who's born with superpowers thanks to a government experiment who teams up with her fellow orphans to DEFEAT THE MILITARY RULERS by dressing up as the town's patron saint and performing random acts of vandalism. Also, there is boxing for great justice.