Tag: literature
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Iron Widow by Ziran Jay Zhao Review
Iron Widow by Ziran Jay Zhao has been on my To-Read list for a long time, and I had avoided it for mostly subconscious reasons surrounding the marketing of novels as “Young Adult,” I think. There’s much to say about YA as a pseudo-genre (it’s not a genre, it’s a marketing strategy), but even I…
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Lifetime Movie Network….Can We Talk About Your New Show?
Not too long ago I wrote about HBO channel’s adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife, here. I had watched the first episode of the Steven Moffet led show, and immediately backed away in horror. To me, there was nothing romantic about the supposed romance between Clare and Henry. Clearly, lots of people agreed with me-HBO…
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Book Review-“So This is Ever After” by F.T. Lukens
I’ll give you one guess why I saw this cover on an end cap at the library and immediately checked it out. And yes, it’s absolutely exactly as queer as I was hoping for. So This is Ever After begins at the end of a traditional fantasy novel-the chosen one has defeated the Big Bad™…
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The Time Traveler’s Wife-What Is The Appeal?
Maybe it’s because I’m queer, and growing up queer fundamentally changes the way I approach and perceive love, but nothing in The Time Traveler’s Wife feels romantic. It could be that I didn’t give it enough of a chance. Should I continue watching? Should I try to read it? What are your thoughts?
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Modern Vampires Are Queer Culture
Touching on the forthcoming Interview with the Vampire series as well as the excellent What We Do in the Shadows, I show how very queer vampires inherently are.
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Queerly Beloved
A rebranding of my blog page to continue the focus on the queer theory, rather than medieval vs modern.
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Queer Doesn’t Always Mean Queer
Lancelot was definitely queer-not just because I think there’s not way he was only interested in women, but because of how queerness often means breaking from acceptable norms, more so than a relationship that steps away from heterosexuality.
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No More Guilty Pleasures
Perhaps the strangest side effect of studying medieval literature, for me personally, is the way in which I interact with all media has significantly changed. I will be the first to speak about my struggle with intense anxiety and imposter syndrome, even writing this very informal blog causes me concern, so it follows that I…
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We Don’t Talk About Bruno
Published in 1972 as the first novel under the new pen name Philippa Carr, The Miracle at St. Bruno’s is the first in Carr’s Daughters of England series, told through a series of first-person diaries written by the eldest daughter of each subsequent generation, from Henry VIII’s reign all the way through WWII.
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Film Fridays-Cyrano
This one is a slight stretch but I’m including a post about it because it’s my blog and I can do what I want. I LOVE musicals. I had no idea 2021’s Cyrano was a musical until I checked out a copy from my library. It’s not a story I had been familiar with prior…
Queerly Beloved 