Member: ANovelMenagerie

Noticed you liked The Glass Castle, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a dysfunctional family (and also a bit dark). I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 1:54 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2009

Hi Sheri,

Read your review of DFWs This Is Water and read that you'd be interested in hearing from DFW aficionados. Well, I'm certainly one, and rather than pontificate myself on how great DFW was as both a human being and writer, I thought I'd link a group conversation he had on Charlie Rose, in which he briefly describes what Infinite Jest was about. Hope you like it:

http://www.charlierose.com/view/intervie...

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:04 am (EST) on Jun 28, 2009

In my quest to write better reviews, I followed a thread about it and ended up looking at the other reviews of books in my library and I found your reviews. Oh, as if I don't already have more blogs than I can keep up with, I put yours in my Google reader. I will more likely be reading your reviews here (although I enjoyed the little of the blog (not only book reviews) that I read.

(Surfing the internet so so adapted to the ADD mind!)

What prompted me to go over to your blog was your review of [To Kill A Mockingbird]. It fascinated me that you could get so much out of a novel, think so well of it, and not connect. Maybe I've done the same thing, but I can't think of any book, specifically. I know I can like and enjoy a story and think the writing bad ([Twilight]), and feel compelled to finish a vapid book and be manipulated into a strong emotional response, while hating the author for the manipulation ([Love Story]).

Anyway, your review made me think and I appreciate that.

posted by Airycat at 1:37 am (EST) on Mar 21, 2009

Hi there. I noticed my books are in your library, and I wanted to let you know I'm doing an author chat for the next two weeks. It'd be great to see you there!

posted by hshumas at 12:04 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2009

Hi-

I'm going to have to agree with kawika. The excessive use of hearts is really making any reviews that you post, and any others that fall with yours, very difficult to read. Thanks!

posted by tapestry100 at 8:12 am (EST) on Jan 9, 2009

Hi,

I was looking at my reviews page and saw that the "review by others" section was stretched out. In paging down to see what was causing this, I saw your review with the long line of hearts used to cause separation within the review. The use of the line of hearts with no page break is what's causing the page to be stretched on both my page and the work page where your review is posted, making it necessary to scroll sideways to read anything on those pages. I don't normally ask anybody to adjust their content unless it's obvious they're using their reviews section for notes to themselves (I usually send them something to let them know that reviews show up on other peoples' pages but comments won't) but I feel I need to ask if it's possible to at least cut the line of hearts down. I use a huge screen and it's smooshing my review section to about 10 characters, so I can only imagine what it looks like on someone whose screen and/or browser is smaller.

posted by kawika at 4:22 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2008