I'm not sure why publishing scandals give me such great vicarious pleasure. Most likely because they typically surround memoirs with bs-y manufactured-seeming feel-good "lessons." Probably also because a lot of them are also super White Man's Burden-y.

‘Three Cups of Tea’ Author Defends Book
Three Cups of BS

W(ilhelm) N(ero) P(ilate) Barbellion was the nom-de-plume of Bruce Frederick Cummings (7 September 1889 - 22 October 1919), an English diarist who was responsible for The Journal of a Disappointed Man. In The Pleasure of Diaries, Ronald Blythe called it "among the most moving diaries ever created ( Read more... )

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Like Pike: Blogging Christopher Pike Novels Because That's What I Continue to Do

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Having dubiously entered into this whole "being in a book group" thing nearly a year ago I'll be the first to say that I've been pleasantly surprised by the results. While they aren't always the books I'd pick for myself, they've been plenty interesting ( Read more... )

Thoughts on yaoi Dennis Lehane:

Anyone who knows me should know that Shutter Island is, on its face, pretty much up my alley as mysteries go:

The story takes place in 1954 on Shutter Island, home to a psychiatric hospital called Ashecliffe. U.S. Deputy Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel ( Read more... )

From The Dark Garden by Mignon G. Eberhart:

Yesterday morning -- when she had stood before that very mirror, thinking of the concert, perhaps, and of Aunt Mina's offer of the car, and no doubt in the back of her mind of her own situation. Of money she had made and lost. Of bills, urgent, made before she, or anyone else, realized that things were ( Read more... )

Hmm. Wow. Yeah. Breaking radio silence becomes exponentially more difficult as more time passes. And then because I don't remember the particulars of what's happened majorly in, oh, say, the past 3 months I feel like my life is abysmally boring. Which, I don't think it is really ( Read more... )

Because this is freaking horrifying:


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Okay, so everyone knows that the use of Comic Sans is, like, an absolute hallmark of bad design, right? Right!Which, this is as close as I could come to parsing the specific reason why I hate Comic Sans: 'Let's make this document look less serious and more fun. Ooh, look, Comic Sans!' It's like, this is FUN and WHIMSICAL you are having FUN, you ( Read more... )