Julia’s Comments (group member since Jan 31, 2011)

Julia’s comments from the We Read Themes! group.

How about robots as a theme?

Race/ racism handled well in a genre one would not expect it to be like science fiction/ fantasy/ mystery/ westerns. (I have found few Romances I like, or else I'd list it here.)

For an example, look at Octavia E. Butler's books.

Sookie Stackhouse is not one of sharper tools in the toolbox, at least in the first books by Charlaine Harris. (Because she's a telepath, she and many of her neighbors think of her as stupid at best or metally challenged.)

Mercy Thompson, though also working class like Sookie, isn't a slouch in the brains department, among other things she's a foreign car mechanic with her own shop.

I'm Julia. I joined Goodreads because I read like a demon and it helps me be somewhat organized about my reading. I joined this group because Chakara asked me to. The concept of reading themes instead of genres is interesting to me. I would like to read more outside of my typical genres. I am an unemployed secondary special education & theater teacher in rural Upstate New York. I'm more than twice Chakara's age, I'm white, Jewish and was raised in the LA area and went to school & lived in San Francisco for many years.
Favorite authors include: Charles de Lint, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, Michael Chabon, Tanya Huff, David Levithan, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, Elizabeth Moon, Harper Lee, William Shakespeare, Walter Dean Myers, Chris Crutcher, Elizabeth Lynn.