Thoughts which probably don't particularly cohere brought to you by reading an article by someone researching the history of 70s feminism (nope, still no mermaids singing to me... perhaps I should roll my trousers a bit more) and improving the cataloguing of a collection of correspondence at work.

The researcher mentions that a number of the ( Read more... )

Have just found this vitriolic attack on the posts I made, linking to someone else's article, about the 'publishers reject lightly disguised Jane Austen novels' silly-seasonal hoohah.

I think the writer is actually either misreading what I'm saying there, or attributing to me the opinions expressed in the article I linked to.

But I may be wrong, so ( Read more... )

Or, thinking about comments, as a result of recent posts on my reading list.

It's nice to have comments. It's disappointing to do a thought-out and carefully-wrought entry that just falls into a pool of silence, when something quite frivolous dashed off in the heat of the moment elicits numerous responses. I like to see people linking to my entries ( Read more... )