erika -- not ignoring you.

Umm, I really have to say that the large font in combination with the main character's tics really impeded my enjoyment of MB. Perhaps if I had read it in a normal font it wouldn't have had the same effect.

Is it a Britiish book, Jilli? I notice no translations of French in books published there

When I was writing a paper on the character of Adela from Jane Eyre it took me forever to find a version of the book that translated what she said from French to English.

I like the use of italics within a novel for a characters internal dialogue or for other reasons that the author feels it is necessary, but it doesn't bother my eyes, so I can see that it would be annoying if that were the case.

I didn't even think of that!(smacks forehead) Because that happened to me...getting a LP Nora Roberts or something, where, let's face it, who cares? But in that Lethem instance...um, yeah.

Isn't Uma Thurman about to cut her nose off with her own katana?

That's a fairly standard stance. Blade's a few inches off her face, if she's doing it right.

Oh, fuck.

First, you have Black Lace. My most recent letter from them says:

Editorial Changes: Please be aware that we want to tone down the four-letter words a bit for future compilations. We preferably want only one sex scene per story, beautifully described and perhaps more subtle than previous Black Lace writing. We are trying to get the books off the top shelf here in the UK, and out to a wider audience. For that, we need to reduce the use of ‘f’ and ‘c’ words.

Yup. Black Lace, purveyors of porn for women, want only one sex scene per story.

That's just...romantic comedy or something...my brain before lunch. Not "porn"

I've read Black Lace. It's porn.

How many sex scenes did they used to have?

Uh... many?