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March72013
February42013
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[TW: Sexual Assault]
His lips crushed mine, stopping my protest. He kissed me angrily, roughly, his other hand gripping tight around the back of my neck, making escape impossible. I shoved against his chest with all my strength, but he didn’t even seem to notice. His mouth was soft, despite the anger, his lips molding to mine in a warm, unfamiliar way.
I grabbed at his face, trying to push it away, failing again. He seemed to notice this time, though, and it aggravated him. His lips forced mine open, and I could feel his hot breath in my mouth.
Acting on instinct, I let my hands drop to my side, and shut down. I opened my eyes and didn’t fight, didn’t feel… just waited for him to stop.
”Twilight: Eclipse p. 331 (Bella and Jacob’s first kiss)
This is rape culture.
Young women are taught to think of this passage - which describes sexual assault - as erotic. Young men are taught to force their will on young women, regardless of any (non)verbal cues, because sex is conquest and women are objects - not something to be done between two consenting individuals because it’s pleasurable for both people.
The most frightening thing about this excerpt is that many survivors of sexual assault who have disclosed to me describe stories that sound exactly like this one.
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Vomiting everywhere
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The lines before that:
He still had my chin—his fingers holding too tight, till it hurt—and I saw the resolve form abruptly in his eyes.
“N—-” I started to object, but it was too late.
And after he assaulted her she punched him in the face but due to his “super human strength” she broke her hand, said “Don’t touche me!” and then:
“Just let me drive you home,” Jacob insisted. Unbelievably, he had the nerve to wrap his arm around my waist.
I jerked away from him.
And then:
When he got in the driver’s side, he was whistling.
AND THEN while he was driving:
“…There is so much I can give you that he can’t. I’ll bet he couldn’t even kiss you like that—-because he would hurt you. I would never, never hurt you, Bella.”
I held up my injured hand.
He sighed. “That wasn’t my fault. You should have known better.”
And then:
He grinned over at me. “You kissed me back.”
I gasped, unthinkingly balling my hands up into fists again, hissing when my broken hand reacted.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“I did not.”
“I think I can tell the difference.”
“Obviously you can’t——that was not kissing back, that was trying to get you the hell off me, you idiot.”
He laughed a low, throaty laugh. “Touchy. Almost overly defensive, I would say.
I took a deep breath. There was no point in arguing with him; he would twist anything I said.
Then when she gets home, to where her father, Charlie, the police officer, is:
“Why did she hit you?”
“Because I kissed her,” Jacob said, unashamed.
“Good for you, kid,” Charlie congratulated him.
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I didn’t read the citation first. I read the quote. I thought I was reading a woman’s account of how she was about to be raped, not a fucking passage from a romance novel.
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And this is why I think NO young impressionable woman should be reading this crap
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January232013
Story of my life
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January72013
I have Seriously Neglected My Blog…
I hate to admit it but this happens to me all the the time. I don’t mean for it to happen, it just does. And it’s not that I’m not online, I’m on tumblr ALL THE TIME, I’m on facebook all the time….
Side note-Rachael Ray is singing to a goat….and the goat kicked at her
Any way, it seems I have major ADD lol. Any way, I big part of my lack of blogging is lack of good books lately. Luckily for me my friend Brenna gave me an AMAZING book for Christmas but other than that I’ve been re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire (almost done with the third book…Joffery is dead! Huzzah!). I do have a small stack of books to work through but I just have no desire to read them right now.
Lately is seems that books are not “Wowing” me the way I want to or the way I expect them too and that’s why I’ve been re-reading a lot of my favorites.
So while I still have to review a few books that I’ve read recently that weren’t re-reads, I think I’m going to keep this blog in hiatus until I find something to write home about.
Happy Readings!
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November262012
Harry Potter series from Hermione’s point of view:
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out of a Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out of a Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out of a Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out of a Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out of a Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out of a Crisis
- Hermione Granger and the Time I Got Two Idiots Out of a Crisis
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November42012
Shutter Island
Ok, I know I promised to write about Mystic River, and I will, but I just finished Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, and OMG…it was amazing. I actually liked it more than Mystic River, mainly because it messes with you head more…so…onto the review!
Basic plot:
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.
What I liked:
- I loved Chuck, he played his part really well plus he provided a lot of the much needed comic relief throughout
- I liked how the back stories weren’t told through flashback but rather through dreams and character sharing, it helped make everything a little less confusing plus, once you get to the end, really interesting seeing how Teddy’s head worked
- With Mystic River I figured out the twists and plot line fairly early, with Shutter Island it took a little more time and I still wasn’t overly sure of the whole story until the very end. I was glad that we were fed the clues and teased along
- I loved Teddy Daniels, and I think you’re meant to fall in love with him to make his ending just that more tragic
What I didn’t like:
- The Warden was weird…and almost not really necessary.
All in all I really enjoyed the book. I loved all the psychology behind it, and it really messes with your head how EASY it is to mess with your head. It’s amazing what our brains can do in order to cope with major trauma.
Happy Readings!
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October312012
I am soo behind in books!!
OK…so since The Casual Vacancy I’ve read
Mystic River (which will get it’s own review)
I really enjoyed all these books, especially Pets in a Pickle, Mystic River and Zoo City.
Pets in a Pickle was really a smart choice to read after reading The Casual Vacancy because it was so light-hearted and fun. Plus if you love animals you really can’t resist this book.
Zoo City was AMAZING!! It really deserves it’s own review but I just don’t have the time right now (the only reason Mystic River is getting its own is because I saw the movie as well :) ). So really all I have to say about it is that it’s amazing and everyone should go and read it.
Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen are both pretty good short story books, my only issue with them is that they tend to get a little too weird.
And that is all I got for now…I think I may be missing a book but I should get back to regular reviews soon!
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October112012
The Casual Vacancy
Ok, so this post has been stewing for a while now, I’ve actually on my 3rd book since reading this one. It’s just taken a little while to really organize my feelings for this book.
Any way, The Casual Vacancy by JKR is about the small town (village really) of Pagford, England and what happens when one of the council member’s suddenly dies. This is really a stunning look into society and how messed up it can be. These people are lairs, cheaters, greedy, drug addicts, and teenagers.
What I liked:
- JKR has a real gift for character development, you love, hate, sympathize, or utterly loathe her characters (Dolores Umbridge anyone? I’m sure I hated her more than Voldemort). I felt exactly the way JKR wanted me to feel for her characters. I loved Andrew (Arf) Price and Krystal Wheedon. I couldn’t stand Howard and his croonies and I pitied Krystal’s mother. All these feelings are exactly what any person would feel, unless of course they were like Howard.
- JKR’s keen observations to social issues are also pretty amazing. She goes through the struggles of the poor and how most middle/upper class people (cough cough rich white men) are trying to shut them out and deprive them of their rights because they are too closed minded to understand why those people are poor. The head honchos of Pagford (Howard and croonies) are trying to oust a clinic to help those in The Fields (the welfare housing complexes) with addiction because they think that The Fields is a stain on their “spotless” reputation.
- This book is very real, there is no doubt that this book COULD be based on reality, I’m sure we wouldn’t have to look very far to find situations like this. And that’s why it bugs me that so many readers dismissed this book because of sex and language…how can this book portray real life situations, how can this book scream it’s message with out sex and language? If you omit these things how can we believe this? How can we relate and take it to heart? What teenager doesn’t swear? What teenager in a broken home with a mother addicted to heroin doesn’t find herself in messed up situations? What wife or mother doesn’t go through a midlife crisis? How can we ignore these things?
- The book was very dark, even hopeless at points, but in the end JKR pulls through and gives us a little ray of light, yes it’s depressing, yes it’s melancholy, but there is hope, there always will be.
- This book really left you thinking…it wasn’t a light and fluffy read (not that there’s any thing wrong with light and fluffy) but it’s not meant to be, it’s meant to leave you thinking.
What I didn’t like:
- It was sad
- Who ever formatted the ebook for nook really messed up…the type was WAY to small…I could barely read it, I wound up downloading the app on my phone so I could read it better.
I really loved this book, and I was really impressed by JKR. It was hard transitioning from Harry Potter to this and it was weird in the beginning reading f-bombs and sex scenes from the woman who wrote JKR, but by the 2nd chapter you’re so engrossed in these characters that you’ve completely forgotten who wrote it and what they’ve written before, and you just don’t care. All you want is to find out what happened next.
Happy Readings!
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October92012
HUMBLE BUNDLE. 8 EBOOKS. Includes Scalzi, Doctorow, Link ...and a graphic novel by me and Dave Mckean
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