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I'm still looking for more people in the fediverse who write mostly about personal stuff and only occasionally post political things. Also, I encourage you to comment more, nobody wants to talk into a void...
Here's a list of my interests: Reading (mostly fantasy and general fiction like Naomi Novik, Haruki Murakami, Stephen King), photography, taking walks, urban gardening, animals, paper crafting, Cologne, traveling, music (Marillion, Riverside, Vanessa Carlton, Toto), the Netherlands, Spain, singing in a choir, going to museums, and lots of other things.
#museum #animal #choir #literature #Cologne #music #traveling #photography #marillion #hiking
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Fantasy books for "older" adults
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I figure they thought we would grow out of it. It seems to be what happened to most people I know. They got a job, got married, had children, and started chasing promotions, bigger houses, and washing machines, instead of dragons and dreams.
Mind you, I haven't read these yet, but they are on my wishlist:
“The Long Price Quartet” by Daniel Abraham
“The Blade Itself” by Joe Abercrombie
"Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands" by Heather Fawcett
“The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro
"City of Blades" by Robert Jackson Bennet.
Lastly, it might not quite fit the classical fantasy moniker but "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King is, to this day, one of my favourite reads. I might be biased though, I am a Constant Reader 😀
In the meantime I found a lot of threads on Reddit that deal with similar requests and they had quite a few suggestions.
My theory is that it is easier for publishing houses to simply classify fantasy as a YA genre. It's a nice categorization that works most of the time. I hope they don't turn down many good manuscripts that feature older female protagonists. In the fantasy novels that are popular with men there are many older male protagonists but that's something that is also a well known topic with movies. It has gotten better though, especially in tv series where there are many women 40 plus (mostly very slim and beautiful though). But I digress. 😉
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Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg would certainly qualify as older female protagonists, and heroes do not get much older and more decrepit than Cohen the Barbarian and The Silver Horde.
I'll have a look around my library and see if something else interesting falls off the shelves. It's mostly science fiction, but there are little pockets of fantasy hiding out.
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in reply to Petra • •Good idea Petra!
I also notice a lot of posting about political issues. This makes sense, because there is so much going on in the world that is disturbing and even frightening.
But here too we can try to find some kind of balance. Life is (much) more than just politics and venting feelings of powerlessness and anger....
I like to participate in showing what is still beautiful, or sweet, or nice.
Thank you for your call in this Petra!
For you this poem I wrote a few years ago, it's a haiku. It says:
Look, a flying sheep
with glee in its head
It looks like spring
Enjoy your day to the most!
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in reply to Wilhelmina58 • •#movies, #music, #crochet, #recycling ect....
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