Well, this is a new one.
May. 13th, 2021 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI am well used to the fact that if you mention an "underground city" on /r/whatsthatbook people will jump up to say it must be "City of Ember" even if there are no other similarities, and likewise any mention of "gray" or "color" will cause people to fall all over themselves to tell you it must be The Giver or Gathering Blue, and if ever you should mention the words "virtual" and "war" anywhere in the same post they'll be equally certain it's Ender's Game. (It's never Ender's Game. It is always Virtual War.)
But this is the first time I've seen somebody suggest Sadako's Thousand Paper Cranes to what is obviously Homeless Bird.
I'm pretty sure that poster twigged on the word "crane" and didn't bother to read any of the post. Nevermind that Sadako is about a child in Japan who folds origami cranes and dies of cancer and the OP is asking about a book about a woman in India who is abandoned by her mother-figure and does something in the textile industry and then embroiders a crane.
No, they're just so similar!
I actually called that poster out on it, and then got this really whiny response about how mean I am because she's drawing on her faulty memory (trauma background, she says) of helping do the lighting in a stage play ten years ago and she's so sorry that it's not close enough.
Well, she should be sorry. Don't pin this one on me, honey. Like, it's not helpful if the book you suggest is nothing like the one that's requested.
But this is the first time I've seen somebody suggest Sadako's Thousand Paper Cranes to what is obviously Homeless Bird.
I'm pretty sure that poster twigged on the word "crane" and didn't bother to read any of the post. Nevermind that Sadako is about a child in Japan who folds origami cranes and dies of cancer and the OP is asking about a book about a woman in India who is abandoned by her mother-figure and does something in the textile industry and then embroiders a crane.
No, they're just so similar!
I actually called that poster out on it, and then got this really whiny response about how mean I am because she's drawing on her faulty memory (trauma background, she says) of helping do the lighting in a stage play ten years ago and she's so sorry that it's not close enough.
Well, she should be sorry. Don't pin this one on me, honey. Like, it's not helpful if the book you suggest is nothing like the one that's requested.
