HMM ...

Over at Chapter & Verse Blog, Richard Horan writes about his decision to stop reviewing novels.

As a novelist I was being asked to review other novels.  Asking a novelist to review other novels is like asking an Italian chef to critique another Italian chef's spaghetti sauce.

Now, maybe we're sleep-deprived and cranky but this seems to us ... unsound reasoning, at best.  The counter argument would be who better understands what does and doesn't make a novel work - and, perhaps more importantly, w