{"id":2828,"date":"2012-12-31T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2015-06-22T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:24:57","slug":"just-finished-jim-hines-magic-ex-libris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/12\/31\/just-finished-jim-hines-magic-ex-libris\/","title":{"rendered":"Just finished Jim Hines’ Magic Ex Libris…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…About some dude<\/a> running around with the power to pull fictional objects from books into reality and thereby preventing book magicians [libriomancers] from duking it out with vampires and thus exposing magic to the world. Entertaining and intellectually easy, this passably written trilogy opener contained some cool ideas [magic via books!] that were under-served by the pedestrian prose.<\/p>\n

I was interested and somewhat pleased to note that the protagonist’s partner and love interest, Lena, an extremely tough dryad, was explicitly written as fat, bi\/queer and polyamorous [with varying degrees of success depending on the trait], but apparently this blew a few fuses in other readers’ heads. On Amazon, for example, “RG” describes<\/a> Lena as “a rubenesque nubian dryad, in other words a chubby black woman who sleeps in a tree.” I think “RG” thinks that this is a bad thing, as “RG” then proceeds to go off on a tangent of racist, anti-fat misogyny. There are indeed problematic aspects in Lena’s characterization [which I may get into when it is not half past midnight]; however, the mere presence of a fat woman of color who sleeps in a tree is not axiomatically grounds for derisive excoriation.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, in the next comment, J. Platte takes “RG” to task<\/a> for the misogynist, anti-poly assumptions in the post, but fails to rebuke the egregious racism.<\/p>\n

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1434675.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I’d prefer it if you’d comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…About some dude running around with the power to pull fictional objects from books into reality and thereby preventing book magicians [libriomancers] from duking it out with vampires and thus exposing magic to the world. Entertaining and intellectually easy, this passably written trilogy opener contained some cool ideas [magic via books!] that were under-served by… Continue reading Just finished Jim Hines’ Magic Ex Libris…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[657,640],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-people-of-color","tag-queer-yay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}