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We're off to DC for a few days. Expecting to have a Highly Educational time.
Yesterday we went a-browsing second-hand bookshops. I was vaguely looking for fiction; I spend all day reading heavy, educational things, and a bit of paperback fiction on the subway lets my brain relax a bit. But I had the greatest difficulty finding fiction that a) wasn't about LUV b) wasn't written in a really pretentious post-modern chopped-sentences first-person style. I'm not sure whence the heavy anti-LUV bias. I can't help feeling that a book primarily about one woman's struggle to keep the man she loves whilst retaining her marriage (or whatever) isn't going to be all that interesting. This isn't entirely fair, because I like, for example, Jane Austen very much indeed, so why do I automatically assume that a story about Being Crossed in Love is going to be dross? Conclude that it's because most of them are, and JA is a happy exception.
Unfortunate knock-on effects: I eventually found myself shying away from books written by women, and books about women, because these proved to be the ones most often about LUV. It's not that I particularly want to read books davka by women, but it's rather unfortunate that I ended up assuming that women weren't likely to be writing the kinds of books I wanted to read.
Unfortunate knock-on effects: I eventually found myself shying away from books written by women, and books about women, because these proved to be the ones most often about LUV. It's not that I particularly want to read books davka by women, but it's rather unfortunate that I ended up assuming that women weren't likely to be writing the kinds of books I wanted to read.
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