Fiction

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I'm rereading the Sorcery & Cecelia series just because I can, and it's really striking to me how Wrede just does not write romance. In S&C, Kate's pretty obviously in love with Thomas part of the way through, and towards the end it comes out that things Thomas did earlier that Kate ascribed to being enchanted etc. were actually because he was in love with her - and that's kind of a standard trope, but Cecy and James's romantic trope (bicker bicker, at the moment of climax we realize we're in love) is one I usually see in books aimed at a slightly younger age group. I think. And then in Grand Tour, Kate's sections contain a pretty good amount of flirting and ego-boosting and cuddling, and descriptions in general, but Cecy's is pretty void of romantic interaction and tends to move the plot more. I suppose some of it can be chalked up to Kate's being a diary and Cecy's being a deposition, but they didn't have to structure it that way. It just makes me wonder.

It took me the entire series of Land Girls to realize that stubbly guy is the father from Friday Night Dinner. I couldn't manage it until I was thinking about something else and said "females" in my head.