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I write the kind of books I like reading. Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living, but even he might have thought that Karl Ove Knausgaard has taken things a bit too far in the other direction.
Knausgaard has become Norway's most famous living writer on the strength of My Struggle, an "autobiographical novel" published in six volumes and amounting to some 3, pages, in which he recounts incidents in his life both dramatic and banal, and tells us what he thinks about them, and what he thinks about what he thinks about them, and as often as not, what he thinks about that, too.
What's shocking about this brutish, macho sentiment is that it's not contested, even by the women of this benighted era. Male dominance is accepted here as "just the way it is": will of the gods, the natural order of things. If there was a prize for the best opening line of a novel, this one would deservedly win: "A long time ago I had two sisters and we lived on an island.
What it feels like Karin Baine 42 from Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, is a die-hard romantic and pens the kind of books she wants to read. Close Author Karin Baine with one of her novels. Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp. September 05 AM. Facebook Twitter Email. Book Reviews Feminist retelling of Homer's classic breaks the silence of Troy's women 'Silence becomes a woman," growls Ajax, fearsome Greek fighter during the Trojan War. Book Reviews Grace's Day review: A curiously romantic tale of family that twists to darkness If there was a prize for the best opening line of a novel, this one would deservedly win: "A long time ago I had two sisters and we lived on an island.
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It drives me mad when people say 'don't you think you're deceiving women? Once the conflict is in place, the writers look to identify their heroine. While Kendrick admits that "It doesn't matter how you describe her, you'll always have a dead-ringer for Angelina Jolie minus the tattoos on the front cover," her heroines, she says, "are not always beautiful, and like most women are plagued by insecurities.
I'm not very good at writing high-powered career women. It could be because I haven't had a high-powered career myself. But if she's a barrister or a newspaper editor, it wouldn't really be feasible — I want her to be spending time with the hero.
She tends to have to be flexible. And if she's a chambermaid, if she's sacked it's not the end of the world. Jordan isn't so sure. I've tried them, but it doesn't fit me so well. I have had them with money problems, but with careers prior to money problems. I want them to assert themselves when necessary. However, Jordan, who's been writing romances for 33 years, usually makes her heroine either a virgin, or inexperienced.
When my heroine meets the hero, she wants to go to bed with him. For the reader, that's the mark of the effect he has on her.
Because you've only got so many pages, it would be very difficult for me to create a heroine who's had lots of partners and immediately knew there was something different about this one.
Then comes the hero. Sheikhs are popular, Jordan and Kendrick say, as are Italian billionaires, Greek tycoons and princes. The sheikh, Kendrick says, "represents the ultimate female fantasy — dark, autocratic, completely powerful, outrageously chauvinistic". However, she says, "he often isn't predatory, as he doesn't need to be.
For Jordan, the hero also has to have a charitable side.
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