I haven't read Twilight but Reneesme looks like "Renee's me" to me. I figured maybe she was a distant relative of Sam I Am.

Evidently Utahns/Mormons are notorious for odd names, partly because of the emphasis on geneaology. Google 'Mormon Baby Names' for lists

The quintessential Utah name often has a French-sounding prefix such as Le-, La-, Ne-, or Va-. Often names appear to have genesis in the combined names of the parents--Veradeane or GlenDora, for example. Related is the practice of feminizing the father's name--as in Vonda (dad is Vaughan) or Danetta. Others, such as Snell or Houser, appear to be surnames called into service as first names.

Related is the curious tendency, more common in Utah than elsewhere, for men (women do not seem to do this) to use the first initial, then the full middle name as the given name, such as L. Flake Rogers, who ran for office in Utah County when we lived there. (Come on, you've noticed this habit among the general authorities of the LDS church!) Besides puzzling over why someone would want to be known as "Flake," it makes one wonder just what the "L" stands for.

Heh. Now she's writing RPF about Jesus Christ.

I have an ARC version of this that my friend who works for a bookstore gave me. I have yet to crack it open.

But I wouldn't just make ugly, badly spelled shit up, because I am not fourteen.

And methinks Fay has hit on the crux of the issue.

We're sure that Meyer isn't deliberately attempting to paint her clumsy-and-repressed-yet-awesomely-fabulous Mary Sue character as a teenaged twit with no common sense, right?

Reasonably sure.

But if it's on purpose, then it's a magnificent success.

it makes one wonder just what the "L" stands for

LaDell, Laverkin, Levi, Laman, LaRon, LaVell--no, he'd use LaVell, because that's the name of the hallowed BYU football coach.

I've concluded that he is in fact L.

Hey everyone -- something called Dreamwidth keeps popping up on my flist. It seems like most people already know about it, but this is new to me. I popped over to look at it, and it looks very much like LiveJournal. Does anyone know what the difference is? Is there likely to be a mass migration of users from lj to dw?

As for Twilight, I haven't read the books, so I can't contribute to the snark. But really, Reneesme? It doesn't roll trippingly off the tongue, does it?

Does anyone know what the difference is?

It's based on the LJ codebase and built by former LJ staffers, but they actually have things like users and accessibility in mind. Check out dreamwidth.org for the full details.

Am I the only person who does a double-take when people say 'DW' and are talking about an lj-replacement rather than a fandom?