Like the surface of the sun.

“See? We moved the goalposts so your point retroactively missed the mark!”

It's the dry heat.

Yes polished white lady, DON’T actually listen to the complaints of the minorities who are trying to tell you that singling out a man’s Mexican ancestry as reason he can’t do his job is racist.

“No, I don’t believe it,” Brewer responded brightly. “President Obama just always comes tearing after Republicans constantly. Calling names and calling people bigots and racists, and that’s their big comeback and absolutely ridiculous.”

I’ve had to argue with people to say that it was legitimate sci-fi (it’s set in an alternate future with multiple invented technologies). Funny how male geeks tend to omit female written novels when it comes to “true” sci-fi.

This is exactly how men writing novels is “literary fiction” but the same book written by a woman is categorized as “romance.”

This is like Outlander and the rest of Diana Gabladon’s series being put in the romance section because book sellers didn’t see it as a general fiction book. The patriarchy sucks so damn much.

It wasn’t supposed to be an academic study. It was supposed to be journalism.

And how many writers really have enough clout to choose their publisher? You want to get published, you take what you can get. (And which major publisher that takes women as seriously as men should she have picked? This is an industry-wide…

It’s not academic study, it’s investigative journalism.

Wait, did I miss something? Who said it was an academic study?

This x 1 million. I am so susceptible to cover art. I try to be sensible, but I end up passing books by because of their pastel, saccharine covers.

Might I recommend Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick? It is a compilation of stories told by defectors from North Korea, and really gives a very diverse look at North Korea (everyone from orphans to doctors) and what it is like to grow up there.

True and she was a worker, not a tourist or a visitor. The other book I liked was a graphic novel called Pyongyang by a French Canadian writer named Guy Delisle who went over there to do some illustrating. I think you get more from people who have to spend time there working and not on a tour.

You know how women are; doing years of preparation, risking their lives, living in a country where they might be killed if they are found out, trying to tell the world about conditions that are deliberately hidden from us- you know, girl stuff. You can’t take it too seriously, you know how emotional they get about…

This is insulting to her journalistic integrity and how much risk she took, but not surprising. I have noticed that a lot of books authored by women are marketed to fail. A few years ago, I decided to make an effort to read more female authors (and have read some amazing books as a result), but I can't get past the…

I think she may have been a lot more accurate than most foreign writers over there

I read this book. I thought few books captured how censored and boxed in foreign workers are in North Korea in terms of witnessing everyday life. They try to see life through these tiny cracks; she even talks about the malaise. I think she may have been a lot more accurate than most foreign writers over there— I think…

This is exactly how men writing novels is “literary fiction” but the same book written by a woman is categorized as “romance.”

Depressing, but not surprising.