Garage Sale tomorrow

[pegkerr]

Am exhausted and covered with dust; have been hauling stuff up from the basement for our two-day garage sale which starts tomorrow. This has been a traumatic experience as Rob and I have vastly different opinions about what we should keep versus what we should pitch or sell. If I wasn't married to this man, I'd probably own about a third to a quarter of what I own now.

Started reading another novel today, a first novel. Unfortunately, it starts with a trope that I've really come to hate. So many fantasy novels starring a female protagonist open with 1) a group of thugs rapes the heroine and/or destroys her home and kills her family, and she spends the rest of the novel acquiring magic so she can get revenge or 2) a group of thugs almost rapes the heroine and/or destroys her home and kills her family, but she fights them off with her superior magical powers.

In this one, she fought 'em off. Well, the hero helped. I rolled my eyes when I got to the part about his silver wolf-like stare.

I want to read more novels that get the female protagonist moving without a sexual threat. Please: think of other reasons for women to go out and have adventures.



heidi8 pointed me to this article about the world of fan fiction. Quite interesting.

Peg

Comments

[morganmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I think Star Wars does a good job with Mara Jade as a tough female protagonist, and she is pretty awesome...my favorite character in fact. I really don't read enough fantasy to really help, but I love Mara, so I thought I would plug her if you're a SW fan. Of course, the only SW novels worth reading IMHO opinion are Zahn's, Stackpole's, and Allston's. So maybe I'm biased...

-M