...but would probably default male given a male author. (And vice-versa if it were a female author)
When I was reading it, the character felt like a female character as written by a male author.
Brains are weird.
I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it.
Simon ,'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
tommyrot - Sep 17, 2014 4:42:47 am PDT #22677 of 28635
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
erin_obscure - Sep 18, 2014 2:44:38 am PDT #22678 of 28635
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Congrats p c! Use those powers for good!
Tom Scola - Sep 19, 2014 2:08:21 pm PDT #22679 of 28635
They pay me in WOIMS
Hemingway or a children's book? [link]
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2014 2:32:15 pm PDT #22680 of 28635
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man, I failed that one hard. 8/15. (And, to be totally honest, the ones I got right were ones I actually recognized from children's books.)
-t - Sep 19, 2014 2:42:37 pm PDT #22681 of 28635
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Also 8/15, which the test assures me is a swell score. I got one right because I thought "That sounds like Virginia Woolf, it can't be Hemingway". It was not Virginia Woolf, but it was also not Hemingway, so go me.
Tom Scola - Sep 19, 2014 2:45:37 pm PDT #22682 of 28635
They pay me in WOIMS
I got a worse score the second time I took the quiz.
Dana - Sep 19, 2014 4:02:26 pm PDT #22683 of 28635
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
12 out of 15! I have no idea what I just succeeded at, but hey.
-t - Sep 19, 2014 4:24:00 pm PDT #22684 of 28635
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Second try 13/15. All the same questions. The ones I got wrong I got wrong the first time, and I knew I got wrong, but I couldn't remember how I had guessed before.
bennett - Sep 19, 2014 4:41:54 pm PDT #22685 of 28635
I figured that anything with a conjunction or any kind of clause was probably not Hemingway. It worked pretty well.
sj - Sep 19, 2014 4:59:07 pm PDT #22686 of 28635
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
12 out of 15. If the sentence had any personality at all, I picked children's book. t /not a Hemingway fan