Comments on: Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett https://readingtheend.com/2015/07/29/elysium-jennifer-marie-brissett/ before I read the middle Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Alley https://readingtheend.com/2015/07/29/elysium-jennifer-marie-brissett/#comment-27327 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:31:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=6487#comment-27327 This sounds interesting but super complicated. I’m pretty sure I’d spend a lot of time trying to figure out who is what when. Also boo to the Hector/Helen line.

]]> By: Stefanie@SoManyBooks https://readingtheend.com/2015/07/29/elysium-jennifer-marie-brissett/#comment-27323 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:32:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=6487#comment-27323 In spite of the flaw you and Nikki point out, this still seems like and interesting worthwhile book. I will definitely have to give it whirl sometime!

]]> By: Ana @ things mean a lot https://readingtheend.com/2015/07/29/elysium-jennifer-marie-brissett/#comment-27322 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:15:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=6487#comment-27322 “Cis women do not write a trans character in a vacuum. There is context. There are harmful traditions. Be better.”

Yes, absolutely this.

]]> By: nikki https://readingtheend.com/2015/07/29/elysium-jennifer-marie-brissett/#comment-27320 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:30:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=6487#comment-27320 I really loved the whole experiment structurally. Very ambitious. Very cool. Just the sort of thing that gets my brain all excited about a book intellectually. But I was likewise very underenthused by Brissett’s defense of Helen/Hector.

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