Okay, so here's an issue.

I posted a review of a novel by someone whom I know is on LJ, and in fact is on my friendsfriends list. My review was mixed: there were things I liked, and there were things I didn't like. I maybe focused too much on the things I didn't like, but I wasn't entirely dissatisfied by the novel, and I think I made that evident.

Someone forwarded a note to the author, and she came by, and we got into a discussion. She was fairly cool about it, we went our separate ways, neither of us having convinced the other. Not that we were supposed to.

Well, I just stumbled across a comment on her LJ about how my review was "thoroughly uncomplimentary". And I -- argh. Someone tell me not to post in response? It really wasn't, but this isn't gonna get any better, is it?

Best just to let it go, probably. You've already realized you're not going to change her mind, and further engagement will only cause frustration.

I saw that, too, Connie. I'm afraid she's just (as many are) hypersensitive. Let it lie.

Just finished A Game of Thrones over lunch -- wow, that ending was intense. I think I'm going to stop at the library on my way home from work to see if I can grab up the second book.

I'm sure you're right. I just loathe being misrepresented. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

Ah, well, I'll just stew a bit.

::pats hair::

It's her first published book. I'm sure anything less that "I worship So-and-so's sneakers" would feel like a bad review.

A co-worker gave me an interesting book the other day; a collection of three mystery novels. The collection is Bell, Book, and Murder, by Rosemary Edgehill, and are murder mysteries set in the NY Wiccan/Pagan/Magick scene. A fun read, and if you have spent any time AT ALL around Wiccan, Pagan, or 'alternative spirituality' communitites, you have the added fun of nodding your head and saying "Yep, I know someone just like her. Oh, and someone like him, and I've been to a very similar store, and ..."

I may have to read it. She wrote four excellent Regency Romances before switching genres (curse her), but the single non-romance book of hers I attempted was sadly disappointing.

She's also eluki bes shahar, whose Hellflower trilogy is magnificent space opera.

I'm still bummed out she never finished the fantasy series she had going. There was a character in it with a litter of Rottweilers he'd named after Dunnett characters. heee.