Archive for November, 2006
Monday, November 6th, 2006
Myffic, with extra myff
erry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors of all time. Not when he first starts writing. His first few books are amusing and fun and light, and that’s about it. They’re fun to read, and they pass the time without comment.
But at some point–I don’t entirely know exactly when–Discworld went myffic. […]
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Comments
pparently, people are having trouble commenting. Can you comment? Of course, if you can’t, I’ll never know. But still.
I’m trying to figure out if it’s a problem with the math module or something else. Try it, please.
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Update on as-yet-untitled ornithological work
have written chapter one (mostly). I have also written chapter—um, maybe seventeen. Mostly.
There is a school of thought that says that one shouldn’t revise chapter one until well after one was written chapter two, and likely chapters two, three, four, five and six. And to some extent, I imagine that major […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology by CM
Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The Raven Prince: Elizabeth Hoyt
his is a first novel, and so I read it with interest to see what sells for the first time.
It was mostly excellent. Both the hero and the heroine were intelligent characters with considerable depth, although I kind of felt like the depth in some ways was like cardboard cutouts–see, hero has depth because […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The Sinful Nights of a Nobleman: Jillian Hunter
ecause I have posted two positive reviews of books, I do not think that all romance novels are good. And I’m afraid to say which books I don’t like, because it’s not very nice, and I do think that it’s important to be nice. Also, I don’t want to be a reviewer of books–when it’s […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The place of men in romance novels
‘m just a little crude in this post. You have been forewarned.
I’m not writing this post with an end in mind; I’m writing it because I don’t know what the right answer is yet, and I want to see how it all comes out in the end. For the most part, heterosexual […]
