Wow…Wow…Wow…Wow… so I also had a restless night yesterday. For some reason I couldn’t sleep so I picked up Indigo’s Rogue Intelligence. A fantastic read followed and it certainly didn’t help me get to sleep.
So instead I am writing you this blog instead of going to class….it doesn’t really matter anyway.
Some thoughts on the novel…It was very gripping, I actually had trouble putting it down because it was paced very well. I was really impressed with how Indigo was able to describe the setting. I felt like I was really there. The whole Bay area sounds like a really intriguing place.
A sign of an enjoyable novel I find is that you are sad when you are done. I didn’t cry but there was a glimmer in my eye.
But I also have some questions that I hope my readers will be able to answer. Forgive me for being slightly (or completely) ignorant but the world describe is not one that I have much experience and I was hoping to have some terms explained. Nelly, Butch, Femme, Futch, and boi (style?) are some terms I came across that I have never heard before.
Any thoughts or answers from Readers would be helpful!
Also Jill and Katie if you comfortable sending me your novels I would appreciate the opportunity to read over your works of art as well.
I refuse to make a list (just trying to be different) but one thing I will certainly try to put in my novel is a game of catch…simple perhaps but one thing adds to another…no idea on what my novel will be about but I expect that it will have a male lead who plays hockey and maybe works for CSIS or maybe not who knows…
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Skywaltzer, that is so sweet of you to post about my novel! I'm glad you read it and glad that you liked it. I reread it a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised (despite all its flaws).
ReplyDeleteI can try to help with the words you asked about, with a disclaimer: lots of people use these words differently, so there isn't really a definitive definition. But here goes...
Nelly - derogatory term that people used to use (probably still do?) to describe men who are kind of feminine, seen as weak, or pretty flaming. As with most of these words, has been reclaimed by some so some gay men use it to describe themselves. I wouldn't recommend you use it though. :)
Butch/Femme - these two words often go together though of course, you can have one without the other! Butch refers to a pretty masculine queer woman, and femme to a pretty feminine queer woman. Though, butch and femme can be used for people of any gender, and usually, it's considered rude to impose a term on someone - so it's more about how people identify themselves than how others identify them.
Futch is a term that some people use that blends femme and butch. I don't really know what they mean by that. :)
Boi is a word that is used to describe sort of boyish queer women who aren't butch, and aren't transmen, but more boy than girl.
God, these are all really hard to describe!
Anyway, thanks again for reading the novel and for telling me that you liked it! It brightened my already very bright day!
Scott- what a champ. Those were some nice words for Gogsy's novel that I too enjoyed, a lot. Indigo and I had a pretty good discussion after I read her novel. I had a lot to say about the characters and how complex they all turned out to be. What made it even more interesting was the way that it was so unpredictable. Indigo, is it correct to attribute this to the fact that you often didn't know what was going to happen yourself?
ReplyDeleteUnpredictable - yes, definitely because I didn't know what was going to happen. I knew I wanted Seth to have committed a pretty horrible crime, in the name of patriotism, but how it would all come together, I wasn't sure.
ReplyDeleteThe part about the complex characters was on purpose, though. I remember in my Magna Carta, one of the things I wrote about was how much I like characters where either a) you never really know where their loyalties lie, (e.g., everyone except Jennifer Garner in Alias) or b) they have huge flaws but are fundamentally good so you forgive them (e.g., . Frances from Fall On Your Knees). So, I tried to make it unclear which of the characters a reader might side with. I enjoyed writing that and might try something similar this time.