Comments on: Let me clear a little something up…

By: Gwen

Gwen — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:47:37 +0000

(snicker)

By: Liviania

Liviania — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:04:55 +0000

ShannonC,

I’m (half) an English major. It’s my job to be pretentious.

By: Bonnie Edwards

Bonnie Edwards — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:47:38 +0000

I turn my back to get ~~a pedicure~~ get some writing done and all kinds of things occur.

I can’t for the life of me figure why anyone would want to write a review for a book they haven’t read…but I can see why some people would make the accusation. Some folks just live that way. Love drama and pointing they little fingers…

Sad, really.

Bonnie

By: Sybil

Sybil — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:34:30 +0000

shannon hon you are sooooooooooooooo reviewing on the wrong blog if you are going for pretentious. Half the time we can’t seem to spell the authors names right.

oh wait you are on the right blog

By: ShannonC

ShannonC — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:10:28 +0000

Liviania,

Please, take this nice shiny Internet for teaching me a new word. And here I thought that working in oeuvre into a recent review was appropriately pretentious.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:04:44 +0000

Sorry Sybil. I forgot you had that thing copyrighted. :p

By: Sybil

Sybil — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:59:26 +0000

Hands off my word gwen my pet.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:29:52 +0000

Trolls is as good a name as any Lynne, and better than what *I* was thinking.

(starts with a “w” and ends with a “hore”)

By: Lynne Connolly

Lynne Connolly — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Nothing surprises me any more. I’ve seen rumours turn into “fact” because more than one blog reported it, I’ve even seen things that never happened turn into “reality” by the same process.
People make stuff up.
Why they do this passes my understanding, but there it is. We used to call them “trolls” in the old days of t’Internet (what we call it in rural England) but I don’t know if that’s still current. People who love to stir the pot.
Hugs, Gwen.

By: Liviania

Liviania — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:47:56 +0000

They’re just jealous. ^_~

Mwahaha, literary analysis. Now that’s not a pain anymore. If you do it enough it’s like breathing. But I still can’t work ‘syndoche’ into everyday conversation.

By: limecello

limecello — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:48:22 +0000

Maybe I should get out now…

By: Sandy M

Sandy M — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:05:01 +0000

LOL, you’re bad, Gwen! Bad Gwen! But funny, tho!

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:46:58 +0000

Wait. You mean we aren’t supposed to write reviews for books we haven’t read? Why didn’t someone tell me??

By: ShannonC

ShannonC — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:33:29 +0000

Yes, we really must be masochists. I enjoy writing reviews, but they can sometimes be tedious. Sometimes I miss the days of yore when all I had to say about a book was, “It was OK, I guess.” But then, I get so much out of these kinds of blogs that I couldn’t imagine *not* reviewing anymore. It’s gotten so engrained in my head that even if I’m reading a book just for me I end up trying to analyze it. I’m going to be a real pain in the ass if I ever take a literary analysis class.

By: azteclady

azteclady — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:48:13 +0000

*hug*

(reviews = a total pain)

(you think perhaps we are all masochists?)