Quote of the Day
Books, like paintings and sculptures and three-minute pop songs, are cultural creations, not slices of soul sent out into the market place.
--Stephen over at SBTB
--Stephen over at SBTB
No snark. Bad puppy. No. (Review stuff.)
A two star Amazon review on His American Detective: "Bodice ripper about gay men by a woman." and I'm longing to comment "don't you mean a waistcoat ripper?" God, no. Stop me. The reviews rarely rattle me any longer -- except when I spot a truth in a bad one. When that happens, I actually lose sleep. This means I still care about writing. Speaking of reviewers and writers: A couple of days ago, a writer said she was tired of getting white ladies writing reviews of her books. She had an excellent point in the long run: her stories are meant for a particular audience and she wants them to resonate with those people and get more reviews from them. But that first line was just....horribly obnoxious. I say this from my POV of course. Not a white lady who writes reviews -- but as a review grubber. Anyone who disses any reader (especially ones that give honest reviews) deserves to be cast into the pit of being ignored. ...
Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty vast kind of generalization, right there.
Well, they could be *both*.
ReplyDeleteIt's not as elegant out of context. It summed up a whole argument and I liked it.
ReplyDeleteSo there.
Kate's Slice of Soul.
Well, Motown records are arguably slices of soul, but as Kate says, you need to see the sentence in context.
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked it Kate.
. . . and you know the "so there" is silliness, yes?
ReplyDeleteThe world is full of bad feeling at the moment--I figure being clear is the way to go.
i like it...it's as deep as you need it to be....the 'so there" definitely strokes my inner child...
ReplyDeletedo they still use that term...inner child...oh who care ...ya got the drift eh ?????
Noooooooooo! It's my soul, I tell you, my soul!
ReplyDeleteSo happens my soul is full of wingless birds and high power rifle-toting boars and giant romance-loving spiders and porno-loving dogs and . . . you get the idea.