Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

mrbooks wrote: "well how about that at least they tell you finished the book I don't even get those messages."

What makes it worse is the fact that I read so many books in a week or two's time that it gets annoying to have Nanny feel she must tell me I've done so!

"Congrats! You finished (title of book!)"

Not only do I dislike non-words such as "congrats"--does GR think I'm so stupid I am unaware that I've "finished" a book I just posted a review for? Do they think I'm going to be startled, like, "Oh hey, I did! Good for me!"
Who'da thunk it, Goodreads!

I've bean there, Doggy. I think we've all bean there!

All part of the daily grind.

There's a new coffee shop in Beijing, they call it Moka-china!

How does Moses make coffee?

Hebrews it.

Which one--the smooth operator, or the patient guy?

Well, don't blow the joint if you get ill!

The sad part is, she is a native of England who studied law at Cambridge. I thought barristers had to be extremely precise in expressing themselves, but she is just...O.o.

I often tell my students that many university graduates who are natives of the US, UK and other English-speaking countries couldn't pass their Cambridge First Certificate in English (B2 on the European Plan) for love nor money.

I am not lying when I tell them this.

excuse me shouting, but...

WTF HAPPENED TO PROOFREADERS??????
The modern direct-download ebook market is a shambles, particularly in the cosy mystery genre. If you are going to write a period novel, please be sure you can handle the idiom of the times! But apart from that, brush up on your parts of speech before you dare submit something to an unwary reading public!!!

I've been reading a faux-1920s cosy that is so not making the cut. Quite apart from getting far too many things wrong (clothing, phrases that weren't current until at least 1990 etc), the authoress has her MC "look through the gold gilded doorway."

Excuse me? "Gold gilded"? Gold-painted, certainly. Gilded, if you like. Gilt, if you must. But choose one.

(Item: in my personal lexicon, "authoress" is distinct from "author who happens to be female". It is not a compliment when I use it, just as "poetess" is not. See also "poetaster.")

Wee gotta watch it though. When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.

Don't worry, you'll only get a slap on the wrist!

If he tries, just leg it!

The eyes have it! Of course!

Reminds me of a comic valentine I saw once: "Yours till they feed the corns on your toes to the calves of your legs."

How lung are you gonna mistrust me?

England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.

Thinks nothing of assault and battery!

Just another flash in the pan, really.

Lightning sometimes shocks people because it just doesn't know how to conduct itself.

Yeah, same woman who used a broomhandle to route Tom out from under the bed, using quite a lot of force for the "punches" as described in the text!