While reading Victoria Dahl’s latest historical (can’t remember the name right now and too lazy to look it up) I was so so worried about what was coming up (found treasure solves all problems!). Yea for Dahl for not pulling that on me.

I’ve found that my PDSS has become so acute that I just refuse to finish reading a book if an author pulls one of those obvious devices on me. I do not have the patience.

Re: children using social networking sites

Oh, how to break one’s children of such gratuitous use of bad grammar? When did misspelled words become the cool thing? I argue with my tweenage daughters daily about this, but don’t feel it would be fair to take away their use of Facebook altogether because of it.

I know my parents were visually assaulted every time I decided to walk around with holes in my jeans, in mismatched socks, and shoes, and with 20 bracelets on….but I would’ve felt it was SOCIAL SUICIDE had I been forced to alter my style based on some old person’s ideal of propriety.

Therefore, I try to remember that when my daughters deliberately misspell words on their Facebook status, they are just asserting their independence to a degree.

But it hurts. Oh, how it hurts.

Re: Galbaldon
So, loving Gabaldon as you do, what did you think of The Echo in the Bone? I didn’t find your review.

I’ve dying to discuss this book with someONE.

I recently joined cocomment and agree it’s fantastic! So much help.

Glad to hear the Anne Stuart discussion went well and sorry I wasn’t able to join in. I haven’t read any AS books and knew I wouldn’t be able to read that one in time for the discussion.

PDSD – I had this recently but it wasn’t with a romance book. It was the latest Jack Daniels book by JA Konrath. Stress at finding out which character died, stress at the actions the lead character was taking (which seemed very out of character), stress at the gruesomeness of the villain, stress that there was less humor in this book and that it took a more dark and dreary turn. Stress, stress, stress. Yet I kept on with the audiobook, go figure.

As for pics of kids (I don’t have any but several nieces/nephews) I’m not comfortable with it. Several family members have facebook pages with family pics but those are all set to private so only family and friends see them. I think children have a right to privacy themselves. Think about them growing up in a few years. They may be upset or embarrassed over the ‘cute’ photo you posted of them when they were 10. And now that you brought up the sex offender thing, that’s yet another worry. So while I may post/tweet on something a little nugget in my family says, I will never post their names or pics.

P.S. Thanks for the edit option, this is my 3rd one. Typos-R-Us

I did get rid of the sidebar links, and went back to using Google reader. I was finding the feeds were not updating quickly enough. I also wanted my blog to be less “busy” than it was. I miss them, too, actually. But Thrillionth Page has a great sidebar link set!

@AQ: Yeah, I think I will do another one! Haven’t thought about which book. I will give plenty of notice. I hope you will be able to join us!

I’m curious though – what made you NOT WRITE to Gabaldon (given how much you liked the book) and ACTUALLY WRITE to the other authors?

PS – thx for the Black Ice discussion – I’ve read most of the comments but I haven’t read the book – made me curious about it though!.

Oh, one other thing, what happened to the links that used to be on the right side of you page? They’re not showing up (for me at least) anymore. I used to go visiting from your site quite a bit…

I did NOT send an email to Dg, but I DID send one to the others.

(I wouldn’t have guessed that myself because I know you and I share the squeeing fangirl thing about this one!) I would maybe have guessed the Lara Adrian but not for any particular reason….

Just curious…

(sorry, maybe your comment means that it WAS Gabaldon, but I wasn’t 100% clear on it…)

I’ll give you some stats from my neck of the woods, using my dd as an example:
Photos 1,493 (which explains her saying from ELF, about liking to smile, smiling’s my favorite)
Videos 7
Friends 944

I do think caution makes sense but I wonder, with all those sophisticated search engines, whether all is not known about us, not matter what we do (see Tumperkin’s blog for another perspective on that).

My two cents.

About pics of the kids: Like most academics I have a picture of my spouse and kids on my faculty webpage, As does my husband on his.

So why am I so reticent to do it here? It’s odd.

That cocomment site is cool! Thanks for the link.