I want to like Kurt Vonnegut, I really do. Slaughterhouse-Five is unquestionably brilliant. I am a fan of satire and science fiction, two genres that this book falls squarely into. Instead, I found this book extremely frustrating. Vonnegut’s take on love, faith and mortality is witty and subversive. If I was a white guy of a certain age, this book would probably inspire me to look more closely at my own political and spiritual beliefs. But as a woman, I hated it. There are only […]
Big or small; an animal familiar is always useful in a quest
Young Rhea is the daughter of a poor family that survives by running a grain mill. Despite the family living and working in the same mill for generations, they are not the owners and are at the mercy of the aristocrats who rule the land. Therefore, the family has no choice but agree to Rhea to become engaged to be married under suspicious circumstances or face the possibility of angering the nobility and being evicted. As you can tell from the title, Rhea is not the […]