No Future for You, parts 1 and 2, Promises to Keep, True Lust

[snugglekitty]

No Future for You continues the Buffy Season 8 series of graphic novels. Oh, I love them so much. So much! So good! Four stars.

Promises to Keep is a new Charles de Lint book. He continues to be one of my favorite authors. PtK features a teenage Jilly Coppercorn. It's a YA book, and fairly short. I like it, although some of the stuff about heroin addiction left me cold. I mean, de Lint goes on and on about these topics, and sometimes it feels a bit preachy. There were other parts of the plot that felt a little bit preachy too. But I still enjoyed it. If you're a fan of de Lint, you should like it. Three and a half stars.

I borrowed True Lust by Tristan Taormino from notpiecebypiece. It is a collection of previously published essays about sex and sexuality. I liked the essays, although I wished they were a bit longer, and some of them repeated each other. The final section, The Unbearable Queerness of Being, was my favorite, especially "A Different Kind of Girl" and "Stone Femme," both of which I related to. I think I'd like to have this book around. Four stars.

Comments

[notpiecebypiece.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I found some of the essays too short, as well, tip of the iceberg sort of a deal, though that may be more of a credit to the issues she's raising and less a criticism of her writing. Stone Femme was one of my favorites too.

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

By the way, I loaned it to 7j to finish reading. I hope that's okay. She'll give it back to you when she's done.

I suspect the shortness was due to the medium (newspaper column) rather than her writing style per se.