Quote from a nytimes.com review of the book The Subversive Editor:

Saller herself - the Miss Manners of editing - acknowledges she has these tendencies. She once told her son she had to keep editing because she couldn’t think of another job to which she was so well suited. His response: "Maybe you could be a terrorist."

Hee.

From all over:
1) Copy and paste the list into your own journal.
2) Mark those you have read however you want.
3) Feel free to tell your friends what you thought of them.

Bolded if I've read or am reading the book or series. Italicized if I quit reading it. Question marks if I never heard of it. Feel free to enlighten me.

( Wittering on about books: )

Um. Yes, I do know that I haven't updated, or even commented much, in more than a month. But I'm still alive, yay. For the sake of the easily bored, the rest is behind a cut. That is, if I can still remember how to lj-cut...

( Update on computers and hippodays and life in general. )

Found on communicator's journal:

List the ten books that are gathering dust on your shelves because you bought them but haven’t read them.

I have way more than ten. Probably several hundred. To name a few:

1. In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
   
2. Brunelleschi's Dome, by Ross King
   
3. Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel
   
4. Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, by Barry ( Read more... )

Pursuant to a discussion with reveilles, I went looking for Thursday Next fanfiction, and stumbled across this (halfway down the page) in Jasper Fforde's FAQ:

"My thoughts on Fan Fiction are pretty much this: That it seems strange to want to copy or 'augment' someone else's work when you could expend just as much energy and have a lot more fun making up ( Read more... )

Backdated again.

( Tragedy, Comedy, Death, Immortality, and Romance; no History, though. )