tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post862635318690306430..comments2023-11-12T09:52:42.825-05:00Comments on Medieval Woman: Blogging with Historical Novelist Susan Higginbotham: I Can See Clearly Now (And Ramble Too)Susan Higginbothamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-55654821673176728992007-04-02T23:13:00.000-04:002007-04-02T23:13:00.000-04:00Yeah, Susan, there are a lot of Tudors! I'm lookin...Yeah, Susan, there are a lot of Tudors! I'm looking forward to seeing your contemporary.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, Gata, no relation to the unfortunate Shorpy that I know of! My Higginbothams are from Kentucky.Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-70588409912389032792007-03-29T11:40:00.000-04:002007-03-29T11:40:00.000-04:00Kind of off the subject, but I found this on a pho...Kind of off the subject, but I found this on a photo blog:<BR/><BR/>http://www.shorpy.com/node/1<BR/><BR/>Any relation?Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07624657515252107431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-52887643865204601412007-03-29T11:21:00.000-04:002007-03-29T11:21:00.000-04:00Thoughts? That you'll have to read my contemporary...Thoughts? That you'll have to read my contemporary/fantasy YA when I'm done, and see if I broke the mold for you. {g}<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, I'm going the other direction right now...I was finding that most historicals were sounding same-old to me (wife/mother of famous historical person, more Tudors), so I'm branching into contemporaries.<BR/><BR/>However, I'm also reading The Boleyn Inheritance right now, and though it IS about Tudors, the three present-tense first person POVs are different enough that it's keeping me reading. {shrug}Susan Adrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10730673696950405605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-48992809901435863522007-03-29T09:06:00.000-04:002007-03-29T09:06:00.000-04:00I'll second (or third) that! I also agree with Ka...I'll second (or third) that! <BR/><BR/>I also agree with Kailana - if I want to know about the war in the middle east, all I have to do is turn on the news or read the paper. But you have to wonder if you're getting the whole story. It's probably amazing the difference a few (or several) hundred years makes to the "known facts" and the way they are presented. It would be really interesting to see how todays events are portrayed in 400 hundred years.Daphnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12838072651419264066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-81298976689593207502007-03-29T06:35:00.000-04:002007-03-29T06:35:00.000-04:00Thanks for the mention :-) You touched on this a ...Thanks for the mention :-) You touched on this a while back in your post <A HREF="http://susandhigginbotham.blogspot.com/2007/03/ten-reasons-to-write-historical-fiction.html" REL="nofollow">Ten reasons to write historical fiction</A>, and I commented there that most of them had put me off contemporary fiction. I do like books with a sense that there are other things in the world besides shoes, chocolate and he-loves-me/he-loves-me-not/shall-I-go-to-bed-with-him. Some writers can make the trivial funny - Bridget Jones, Bertie Wooster - but if expected to take it seriously I find it gets repetitive very quickly. Almost as if whatever the story is, it has to be forced into a fixed template. 'Women's fiction' has to be about boyfriends/husbands, babies, 'work-life balance', sex or shopping. Airport thrillers have to have the hero and his sidekick shoot people/blow things up in [insert exotic location/contemporary war of choice] while the bad guys try (and of course fail) to shoot them/blow them up. Historical fiction seems to be allowed a broader range, especially if it sticks close to real events - which naturally, being real, don't follow anybody's conventions. Some historical fiction shows signs of being shoehorned into the same templates, but there's usually something else going on as well, so one can skip the angsty bits if they don't appeal and find the rest of the story.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-11054466815738625622007-03-28T18:18:00.000-04:002007-03-28T18:18:00.000-04:00I read the odd contemporary here and there, but fo...I read the odd contemporary here and there, but for the most part I read fantasy and historical fiction. I think, for me, it is all about the escapism. Who wants to read about life right now? That's what newspapers are for. And, I mean, the books are all the same, and agree that women are not portrayed very well in a lot of them.Kailanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11136262232046813471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-2840135763730506102007-03-28T18:10:00.000-04:002007-03-28T18:10:00.000-04:00Well, I feel pretty much the same way. I don't thi...Well, I feel pretty much the same way. I don't think I have read contemporary fiction since I was a teenager. I like the contemporary dramas on "Masterpiece Theatre" and "Mystery!" such as that policewoman series with Helen Mirren but that's as contemporary as I get. Otherwise, I want to read about the past and have the past come to life, go back in time to another world. That is entertaining and interesting to me.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.com