This book was great. It didn’t send me into nightmarish fits of terror, for example.

When I read this article by the same author, however, fits of terror ensued.  Dude.


[Rainbows End][The lack of apostrophe is intentional]

This book

Does seem like it was written in the 80's. 


[The Handmaiden’s Tale][Apparently all puns intended? Naughty author.]

Since I spent several years in grad school researching ancient manuscripts, I understand why I liked this book.

What I don't understand is why anyone else would. But whatever. It's a NY Times bestseller, so maybe a lot more people did the ancient-manuscripts-in-grad-school thing than I realized.

[People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks]

This book suffers from the "latest book in a successful trilogy" syndrome.

You know. The one I talked about here.

It was good. But it would have been better if the publishers remembered that the only thing separating them from the self-publishing houses is the FILTERING and EDITING they provide. Meaning: don't rush and under-edit a good author just because you want to make $$ faster. You're just undermining your own business value that way, people.

(and yes, I realize the irony of me saying this after my very last post was all about not being able to wait. but I would have waited for something better. I'm not *completely* a child.)

[mockingjay, suzanne collins]