Two things.
Jun. 10th, 2010 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snarpThing 1:
Because I'm trying to get serious about finishing a couple of my projects (one coding, one writing), I've installed StayFocusd, set it for an hour of non-research internet a day, and put DW and LJ in the lock-list. The only exception I made was the DW update page, because I've decided to count finishing all the book/manga/video game posts I've got sitting on my desktop as a productive act. So, I'll probably be slow responding to comments.
(...I'm always slow. I'll probably be slower responding to comments.)
Thing 2:
I'm half-way through Naked in Death, the first book in the JD Robb series that's basically like paranormal romances, except instead of having a sketchily-planned fantasy setting, it's got a sketchily-planned sci-fi one. And I have a problem with it.
My problem is not any of the obvious ones - that the policewoman heroine totally shouldn't be fooling around with the murder suspect; that even though the book's set a hundred years in the future, in a world apparently devastated by environmental disaster and unexplained wars, Americans are still worried about exactly the same political issues we are now; that, even when a book in the paranormal romance genre is set in a world in which guns are outlawed, violent crime is far down, and prostitution is legal and "safer than being a schoolteacher," it is still all about prostitutes getting murdered -
Okay, maybe I do have problems with that stuff. But I have read five Nalini Singh books voluntarily, so I can probably deal with those particular problems.
What's really bugging me is that the heroine's name is Eve Dallas, and my brain keeps reading that as Steve Dallas.
Because I'm trying to get serious about finishing a couple of my projects (one coding, one writing), I've installed StayFocusd, set it for an hour of non-research internet a day, and put DW and LJ in the lock-list. The only exception I made was the DW update page, because I've decided to count finishing all the book/manga/video game posts I've got sitting on my desktop as a productive act. So, I'll probably be slow responding to comments.
(...I'm always slow. I'll probably be slower responding to comments.)
Thing 2:
I'm half-way through Naked in Death, the first book in the JD Robb series that's basically like paranormal romances, except instead of having a sketchily-planned fantasy setting, it's got a sketchily-planned sci-fi one. And I have a problem with it.
My problem is not any of the obvious ones - that the policewoman heroine totally shouldn't be fooling around with the murder suspect; that even though the book's set a hundred years in the future, in a world apparently devastated by environmental disaster and unexplained wars, Americans are still worried about exactly the same political issues we are now; that, even when a book in the paranormal romance genre is set in a world in which guns are outlawed, violent crime is far down, and prostitution is legal and "safer than being a schoolteacher," it is still all about prostitutes getting murdered -
Okay, maybe I do have problems with that stuff. But I have read five Nalini Singh books voluntarily, so I can probably deal with those particular problems.
What's really bugging me is that the heroine's name is Eve Dallas, and my brain keeps reading that as Steve Dallas.
