Yes, my beloved Blood Red Road is a mere $1.99 today.
Relatedly: It was mentioned briefly in a recent Atlantic article entitled, "Must Every YA Action Heroine Be Petite?" (While there were a lot of broad generalizations made, and the examples used didn't suggest that the author had a broad knowledge of YA, I was SO happy to see that she mentioned the FAT = EVIL unpleasantness in Divergent. Because that was so, so glaring.)
The comments section, as you might expect, gets ugly super-fast: lots of FEMALE ACTION HEROES MAKE NO SENSE BECAUSE GIRLS DON'T HAVE MUSCLES and OF COURSE THEY'RE THIN, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ATTRACTIVE and the ever-popular FEMINISTS ARE DUMB AND WOMEN'S ISSUES ARE NON-EXISTENT and BODY IMAGE ISSUES ARE ALL IN YOUR PRETTY LITTLE HEAD AND IF YOU "ALLOW" THE MEDIA TO AFFECT YOUR PERCEPTION OF WHAT "NORMAL" GIRLS LOOK LIKE, THEN YOU'RE STUPID AND WEAK and also, FORGET THE LADIES, WHERE ARE ALL THE MALE ACTION HEROES???
And my personal favorite, DISCUSSION = ENABLING, or IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHING, THEN JUST IGNORE IT AND DON'T TALK ABOUT IT OR TAKE STEPS TO COMBAT IT, AND IT WILL MAGICALLY GO AWAY. You know, like racism. Or chlamydia.
I'm being hyperbolic here, but only slightly.
Amazon sells all kinds of neato stuff...I hear tell that you can even get movies from there these days!
(PS-Comments are wonky, to get a comment box I have to click wildly on the blank space under post a comment until I hit some invisible sweet spot and am granted access - is this like a Temple of Doom puzzle? LOL)
Posted by: AdamW | 22 March 2014 at 09:02 AM