The Closet Nerd Network: I'll have a better post tonight

about feminine fairy tales and folk tales with strong female characters. However until I get home tonight and can look up the quotes I want to include.... I'll start off the day with this.

I've always thought that Disney movies are detrimental to little girls ideas of romance. I truly think that reading so many fantasy novels (especially Mercedes Lackey who has lots of strong female characters) is what made me into the independent woman I am today. However I think some of them still paint unrealistic ideas of romance. Not of women but of romances. Because the guy doesn't always get the girl and not every unique independent girl finds someone who loves her for her. At least I still haven't. Do I have this unrealistic idea that someday a guy will fall madly in love with my weird quirks because of what I've read? Of course it sex (and therefore romance) sells. But I really like the novel I'm working on right now because my main character's romances are so messed up. It's her friendships that really get her through it. I think this is more realistic. What made me think of this is I was skimming over a book I've read a long time ago by Jennifer Roberson it was Track of the White Wolf.

--> Sidenote I got this book yesterday at the Used Book store and I'm pretty sure it was my book to begin with. I donated a whole bunch of my paperbacks years ago and I keep ending up buying them back through this used bookstore. I feel pretty dumb about it. lol.

But Niall the main character just so happens to get ship wrecked on this island and the daughter of the ruler there is wild and carefree. They fall in love blah blah blah. It was all just too perfect for me. Love is anything but perfect. More fantasy novels should reflect this. Jacqueline Carey on the other hand is one that I think really does a good job of making her characters suffer for love. I mean Phedre and Jocelin hate each other at the beginning you have no clue how they're going to end up together. She's a brilliant one that Miss? Mrs? Carey. I hope I meet her someday. Anyway I better get a shower and drive back to College Station (oh shoot me now). Only 11 more months until I get out!!

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She's writing, she's writing,
She's writing a novel.
She's writing, she's weaving,
Conceiving a plot.
It quickens, it thickens.
You can't put it down now.
It takes you, it shakes you,
It makes you lose your thought.
But you're caught in your own glory.
You are believing your own stories.
Writing your own headlines.
Ignoring your own deadlines.
But now you've gotta write them all again.

You think she's an open book,
But you don't know which page to turn to, do you?
You think she's an open book,
But you don't know which page to turn to, do you?
Do you? Do you?

You want her, confront her.
Just open your window.
Unbolt it, unlock it,
Unfasten your latch.
You want it, confront it.
Just open your window.
All you really have to do is ask.

But you're caught in your own glory.
You are believing your own stories.
Timing your contractions.
Inventing small contraptions
That roll across your polished hardwood floors.

You think she's an open book,
But you don't know which page to turn to, do you?
You think she's an open book,
But you don't know which page to turn to, do you?
Do you? Do you?

You think she's an open book,
But you don't know which page to turn to, do you?
Do you? Do you? Do you?
(Open Book by Cake)

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