Subject to Change
Nov. 13th, 2010 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cloudless_9193This was the first I read from this author, and I liked it – and still do.
Subject to Change by M Fae Glasgow
"Tell you what," Bodie said, the words spilling out again before he had time to censor them, "why don't you pretend I never said what I said, and I'll pretend you never said what you didn't just say. How's that sound?"
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Date: 2010-11-13 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 11:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 01:09 pm (UTC)You love it or you shake your head... ;-)
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Date: 2010-11-13 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 02:11 pm (UTC)Well, most of the time... as long as you don't rec death fics... :-P
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Date: 2010-11-13 05:28 pm (UTC)Of course there is always the chance it doesn't work for you, just like Roven.
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Date: 2010-11-13 01:50 pm (UTC)She is such a good author - the way she creates an atmosphere, an intensity, she always draws me into her stories. The way she links this difficult conversation in the car with the dark weather, ahhh... And her talent to show emotions without naming them: "Bodie counted, slowly, in his mind, adding fractions and decimal places as the numbers grew bigger.".
Her expressive way of using words: "But Doyle wasn't listening to Bodie, his own demons shrieking too loudly to hear anyone else's." ""Oh, Ray," Bodie whispered, fingering one single curl. "The poor man's Elba, and then I come along with my dinghy.""
A very well chosen rec!
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Date: 2010-11-13 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 02:57 pm (UTC)I'm not sure if I've read this story before, if I did, I couldn't remember it so I read it (again).
It's funny, M Fae is such a good writer, very skillful and so apt at conversations and creating an atmosphere, but somehow I have trouble "connecting" to her stories. With some very few exceptions.
Not sure why that is, but I can put her stories into little compartments, labelled "doesn't speak to me at all, "a little, "more than usually". This would fall under "a little".
It's weird, it's not that I think her characterization is off, I can very well imagine them both as she writes them. And I do think she is a very good writer. But somehow, something is missing, at least for me.
Which doesn't mean I minded reading this. Keep on reccing, please :)
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Date: 2010-11-13 04:47 pm (UTC)For me it's for example Jingle Balls, Wish I Wasn't Here and Floral Arrangement(although it is a death fic...).
But I don't like My Beautiful Laundrette and Roses Are Red.
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Date: 2010-11-13 05:38 pm (UTC)She has written so many stories, I don't even know if I've read them all. I kept a few, like Footbridge, Prometheus Unbound - though don't ask me why, might just be because of the nice, hard sex scenes which I think she does well ;P
Should go and read some again. I could imagine that I now might like stories I didn't like before. Though I remember I was mostly trying to find a point to connect with her work. Like a really tangled roll of yarn where you can't find an end.
Oh, and I like Wednesday Morning.
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Date: 2010-11-14 02:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 05:32 pm (UTC)I can understand that this author doesn't quite do it for you. But nevertheless it was nice to know you tried it. :-)
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Date: 2010-11-13 05:43 pm (UTC)Besides, sometimes when you read stories again after a while you like what you read even if you haven't before.
Looking forward to more recs :)
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Date: 2010-11-13 05:56 pm (UTC)