I guess junk/spam detection is still not quite sensitised yet on the new machine and this one came through to the inbox today: Customize your website design.
I am not entirely persuaded that these would be the people to go with, did I desire to do any such thing.
They offer 'best customized deisgn soultion' and /enquire 'Would you like to try any ( Read more... )

Further to questions of anachronism in work I was lately reading.
(And in minor quibbles, I would not think 'rubber' was a commodity anyone would be making major dosh in during the Regency - see vulcanisation.)
This was absolutely basic backstory setup. Our Hero is a Duke. He is the sole heir to his father, so he is not Unexpected Heir to Dukedom ( Read more... )

Okay, I am not going to judge a historical romance on its linguistic choices, because honestly, I sometimes think Heyer was totally over-egging the pudding and determined to show off her research and by god, she had spent all that time poring over Pierce Egan and she was not going to waste it -
- so I will cut a certain amount of slack over ( Read more... )

What I read
Well, indeed it was a Courtney Milan re-read all the way as predicted: The Brothers Sinister sequence: The Heiress Effect, (2013) The Countess Conspiracy (2013), The Governess Affair (2013), The Suffragette Scandal (2014), A Kiss for Midwinter (2012) (I cannot believe I did not pick up on, or at least mention, the anachronistic use of ' ( Read more... )

Goodness knows one gets some very weird people rather tangentially connected to the world of academe following one via academia.edu, but today there was somebody in W Africa, who appears to be based at a real institution, but also to be touting a SECRET OCCULT ORGANISATION FOR WEALTH AND POWER WITHOUT NO HUMAN KILLINGS. Hmmmm.
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In more srs ( Read more... )

- in the interests of an entertaining historical romance read.
E.g. you have given your aristo hero the title of an actual member of the House of Lords who was nothing like that. Really nothing like.
I will concede to overlook playing somewhat fast and loose with the laws of inheritance and the state of the laws matrimonial at the period -
I ( Read more... )

- and I will go around being pedantic with it, as my dr rdrz are aware. (e.g. Sid says, actually you could cure syphilis before penicillin, it just took rather a long time and a course of painful injections. Plus, penicillin was not a viable treatment before the early 1940s... I'll shut up now.)
Part of this was being an archivist, which is the ( Read more... )

without pictures or conversations? citations to sources or a bibliography?
I feel the author, or their publisher, had a bit of a nerve sending this to a scholarly journal for review, but the reviews editor has sent it on to me, so I suppose I have to Deal With It.
I will concede that there is a flattering reference to my website in the ( Read more... )

I think it's actually a major blooper to write about a modernist poet and his wife's automatic writing and spiritualism more generally in an early C20th/interwar context, and head up your article: In the Victorian era, a different kind of ghostwriting became popular-largely because it allowed men to take all the credit.

I don't know when ye author ( Read more... )

What I read

Well, Network Effect was great, but I think it is one of those books one reads in a gulp at great speed and then needs to reread to pick up on all the subtleties.

Sara Paretsky, Total Recall (2001) - this was where I thought they really started picking up and developing more complexity.

Ben Aaronovitch, False Value (2020) - quite good, ( Read more... )