Books & Stuff

Well - first I was just going to post bits and pieces on here - retaining LJ for my main blog. And that lasted until my dogs died.

Then I decided to post political stuff. That got too depressing.

Now I've decided that this blog should be for book stuff.

I don't really mean reviews as such - because I've discovered that I'm crap at writing reviews and crap at writing summaries. No, what I'll be doing is giving an opinion about a book I've read.

If I liked it, loved it, or want to be kind about it, then I'll identify book and author and give details of where it's available (in the unlikely event that anybody actually reads this blog and is inspired/persuaded to give my recommendations a try).

If I hated it I might identify it - if the reasons I didn't like it are to do with my tastes rather than content or bad writing. If nothing else that will help any potential reader understand my biases. And I will have biases, these are my opinions. I'm not trying to be fair and balanced. I'm trying to say if I liked it, why I liked it, if I didn't like it, why I didn't, and if I thought it was poorly written crap!!

If I thought it was poorly written crap or if I'm mocking it, mocking the writing, heaping derision and contempt upon it. Or if I'm making complete fun of it because it's full of grammar errors, malapropisms, bad metaphors, and god-awful purple prose. Or if it's otherwise open to pointing and laughing; then I'm extremely unlikely to identify it. That would be cruel.

I might include online, free stories here too. Those will be identified and fandom specified. And I may included non-lesbian stuff, and non-fiction, from time-to-time, because I read fairly widely and, while as large percentage of my choices are lesfic, I also read tonnes of fantasy, sci-fi, and crime fiction, and non-fiction history, law, biography, and politics.

Watch this space. Opinionated book reports coming soon.