If she were to write a YA book about Opal, I'd like to hear about Opal's separation from her mother. In Sky Gyp sees that Opal has a separate, more Opal-controlled bond than the rest of them -- how did they come to that arrangement? How did Anise, with her issues and personality, deal with her first child leaving? I admit to an older-sister bias, but really, there's good stuff there that's more properly YA than "twenty-something Opal does nothing much".
McKinley has said that Beauty and the Beast is her favorite story. I...understand how she got from there to the fixation on older, personality-full man helping and bonding to younger woman. (As a side note, if you find a differently-gendered version of B&tB that's not the one about the prostitute, I will love you forever. I can't even come up with one myself, that's how hard it's gender-stuck in my head.) I can even ignore it, much of the time, because I hard-core adore her writing style. (I would buy any phone book she cared to write. I would also get a boring phone book if I ever wanted to look any numbers up, but such is life.) But yeah, it's wearying.
I look forward to flinging your book. :) I hate it when the inferior (to me, at least) person influences the superior, instead of the other way around.
(Also, tiny rant: she got the physics of spinning and spindles utterly, utterly wrong in _Spindle's End_. Not just not how anyone does it, but not how anyone *could* *ever* do it. Argh. And I still love that book.)
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Date: 2010-07-24 07:08 am (UTC)McKinley has said that Beauty and the Beast is her favorite story. I...understand how she got from there to the fixation on older, personality-full man helping and bonding to younger woman. (As a side note, if you find a differently-gendered version of B&tB that's not the one about the prostitute, I will love you forever. I can't even come up with one myself, that's how hard it's gender-stuck in my head.) I can even ignore it, much of the time, because I hard-core adore her writing style. (I would buy any phone book she cared to write. I would also get a boring phone book if I ever wanted to look any numbers up, but such is life.) But yeah, it's wearying.
I look forward to flinging your book. :) I hate it when the inferior (to me, at least) person influences the superior, instead of the other way around.
(Also, tiny rant: she got the physics of spinning and spindles utterly, utterly wrong in _Spindle's End_. Not just not how anyone does it, but not how anyone *could* *ever* do it. Argh. And I still love that book.)