Welcome to the Critic's Eye View, which will be an irregular series of posts regarding the good and bad in the books I read. Unlike the Dear Author posts, which basically exist to blow off steam about books I review, Critic's Eye View is meant to be a more in-depth objective analysis of why I'm liking or disliking what I'm reading for pleasure ( Read more... )

Dear Author isn't just one of my tags, it's a blog. (Not by me.) In this post, an author illustrates how to never get another good review in her lifeI have had someone do that to me, by the way. Not get in my face over a bad review (surprising, considering how many options there are; I'd better be wearing track shoes if I ever meet Hess... or ( Read more... )

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My review for Acts of Nature is up on Reviewing the Evidence. (Wow, that turnaround was particularly fast!) Obviously, I need to hustle on the last June & July books ( Read more... )

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In a rush on my way out:

If you've seen Poison Sky yet, go read wendymr's character interlude Given the Choice. If you haven't, bookmark for later. Her Donna is perfect. (Can't quote 'cause of spoilers ( Read more... )

Backlog of review books means a lot of reading... which means a lot of headbanging and a few more installments of venting ( Read more... )

In case anyone was interested, the answer was "I took as much as I could carry." I wrote two book reviews, read and wrote another review, finished Yarn Harlot's latest book, and finished another rectangle for the knitalong afghan. I had time to do this in the 10 minutes to jury selection for my panel that stretched for about 5 hours until they ( Read more... )

Dear Author,

Congratulations! Assuming that the review of your novel novella longish short story published in very large type ever gets published, you will have the warm glow of knowing that you have inspired me to create a brand new Internet law, and I sincerely hope that "Linnea's Law" will quickly take its place right up there with Godwin's & ( Read more... )

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