Chrome on Windows XP (latest Chrome, XP fully patched and updated). Here is the first sentence as my browser renders it:
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Paula McLain has written a rather spec-tac-u-lar piece of his-tor-i-cal fiction in her render-ing of Hadley Richardson’s marriage to American literary legend Ernest Hemingway.
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But if I cut and paste on B.org it pastes as:
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Paula McLain has written a rather spectacular piece of historical fiction in her rendering of Hadley Richardson’s marriage to American literary legend Ernest Hemingway.
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No added hyphens. So some weird interaction between my browser and OS and the stie.
I wonder what the entry_wrap_class in the code does, and if that might have something to do with it.
H'm. I'll ask the BIL to poke around a bit.
As I'm reading "Mark Reads The Book Thief" I'm thinking perhaps my assessment of the writing style was off base. Now I feel like Death's unusual prose is preparing us so that by the time we get to "The Standover Man" we're used to the odd format of the book and instead of puzzling over how this picture book just showed up in the middle of the story, we simply accept it and can absorb the beauty of the story without being distracted by how it's presented.
That's an interesting perspective, Laga. I just think Death has unusual prose because...it's Death. He sees the world differently. But it's true that the picture book just seems like part of the story and not some piece of WTF stuck in the middle. It fits.
sumi,
at your recommendation, I am reading Midnight Riot and this is such an entertaining book. I feel like I am constantly surprised at how much I am enjoying it. It is (to me) unexpectedly funny and (I'm halfway through) the "mystical" world the author created is absolutely believable.
I am really digging it. Thanks.
Toby Daye fans! I must share the gorgeous new cover of One Salt Sea. Not only beautiful, but also rather intriguing.
le nubian - I'm glad you like it.
Julie & Julia
is reminding me a lot of
Marley & Me.
I like the writing stlye. I'm entertained, but it's frustrating reading about people making things harder for themselves. I got so worked up I went down to the library to look at a copy of
Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Lo and behold it's right there in the introduction. Julia says if you take shortcuts you're missing the point and she stresses that before you even go shopping you need to
read the recipe.
I wish Julie had taken the time to read the introduction. My notes include, "the butcher will split a marrow bone for you" "dude, cooking thermometer" and "if this were fiction I would think Julie is heading toward a terrible comeuppance."
