Brockmann, Suzanne - The Unsung Hero, The Defiant Hero, Over the Edge

General overview for books 1-6 on race and gender and other stuff.

Each write up contains spoilers for the books.

( The Unsung Hero (2000) )

( The Defiant Hero (2000) )

( Over the Edge (2001) )

I feel the romances in the second and third book all suffer from the surfeit of thriller plot, but I liked the first book a lot.


Links:
- rushthatspeaks' review of Unsung Hero
- kate_nepveu's reviews of Unsung Hero and Defiant Hero and Over the Edge

A lot of linkspam!

The serious

• Potluck #1 is up! (Or, uh, was up a long time ago.) Potluck is intended to be about multicultural and intersectional discussions of food, and the first issue is about holidays. I have a post on New Year away in there that I backdated, so people may have missed it?


• OkCupid's blog has old posts on how your race affects whether or not people message you back: hetero data | same-sex data. I am not a statistician, so I have no idea how well the study is put together (also, it's from OKC data anyway), but I went into it thinking it would be the old "Why do all the [POC group] self-segregate?" and instead it's basically "everyone loves white guys." I wish I were more surprised.


• वैष्णव जन तो... made me think a lot, particularly the final paragraph, which puts into words many of the things I'm still struggling with (and probably will be forever).


• Bidding on con_or_bust has started! Help send fans of color to cons they want to go to! (I am particularly invested this year, since I may be hitting them up.) I am offering a knitted colorwork hat and a blog post.

The fun

• Pretty jewelry and scarves on sale at ChunInda! (Especially the gold-plated earrings...)


• I really liked the Thom Browne Menswear Fall 2011 collection and how it plays a bit with concepts of masculinity and femininity. (Normal fashion complaints about race and body type and etc.)


• Went to Stitches West over the weekend with troisroyaumes and ladyjax and managed to leave without too much yarn in tow. But! We also discovered Handknit Heroes, an indie comic about knitting superheroes, with bonus knitting patterns for your own superhero stuff, and The Knit Princess, a knitting web comic.


• Also, I knew there was the Serve of Self-Actualization or something in Prince of Tennis, but I did not realize there was also the Serve That Killed the Dinosaurs. BWAHAHAHA!