Jessica’s Comments (group member since Nov 22, 2010)

Jessica’s comments from the The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on) group.

Well I think there are about 8 Chicago reviews out of the 12 that are there or something like that...you know the negative reviews always weigh more in one's mind than the others (they sting!). But as they say, any publicity is good...

thanks, Nancy!

hi Paul!

for those of you who don't know Paul Bryant, he writes great reviews. Even when I don't agree with him


;-)

Angel wrote: Folks, when you are published, you have handed over your work. It is now public, and anyone, short of slandering the author on a personal level, may say whatever they like about the work.

I agree. Am I happy that a colleague assigned my second book in her Fiction class? (yes!) and that she then required her students to write reviews of it on Amazon? (not really) But what the hell. It's public now.

(So if you check out my book, 'Not a Chance', on amazon and see all those reviews out of Chicago--some very positive, some rather negative--you know why).

now that is fascinating.

I've been asked to blurb two authors' books, both collections of prose poems, in fact. Both times I readily agreed (i don't get asked often). I learned from that not to agree beforehand; say instead (advice from my former prof): Let me read it first and if I love it, I'll do it. I loved Sean Thomas Dougherty's book, so it was easy to write an endorsement for it. I did not love the other poet's. Oddly, for a book of poems, it seemed unconcerned with language, sound. In any case, I felt I'd already given my word. So I decided to be more descriptive than anything in my blurb, which I did. And I feel okay about that.

[this writer has since died of cancer, which came as a shock to me :( ]

Nancy wrote: "1) I enjoy well-written erotica (m/f, f/f, m/m) and am certainly not ashamed of it, at least among my Goodreads friends. Family and co-workers are a different story, though. Maybe if they didn't h..."

I agree. If you have any good recommendations, pls pass them on--
;-)

thanks, Michael!

ah, that looks excellent, Jason!

guilty pleasures: something like 'The She-Devils' by Pierre Luoys...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83...

terrific, Jason!
thanks.

let's get it up now, Michael!!

thanks, Brainycat.

while we're at it, what does PNR stand for?

I say we do a combo-image

# 26 + # 27


the dwarf lounges with his freudian pipe under a sky of books.

Fantastic.

love it! very classy!

I assisted a poet in the late 80's in Brooklyn. I prepared her poems for submission, wrote her cover letters, etc. I have to say that working for this poet convinced me that I should be submitting my own work for publication.

Jimmy, that def'n is brilliant.

oh, well that was useful then!

I joined GR long before I joined FB...I guess I've been on goodreads for 3 years and FB just about a year...I held out for a long time, but w/ the constant invites from friends, and then with my students and my son (then 16) spending so much of their waking life on it, I thought I should try it.
I hated it for a long time, and still do in some ways, but have found a way to use it: I like it for the news links friends post, things I might not see otherwise; for the cultural events in my area I'm able to keep up with, and occasional posts from long-lost friends. Interestingly, I like some of my coworkers better on FB that at the workplace...(and others, less). It's odd to have so many people from different parts of my life, aspects of myself, in one place.
But goodreads is so much more satisfying. I've made many friends here, many whom I've met now--in Chicago and NYC; that's been fun and enriches the online experience I think.
But the real relationship is with the books we love and goodreads helps to facilitate/enrich that I think. Although I do understand Eddie Watkins' complaint at one time--his longing for the solitude of himself and a book--and he took a long hiatus from gr as a result. Fortunately, he is back now, as I love his reviews and his choice of reading...

Alan: you are too modest! (He's a great writer). I've got your second book of stories waiting for me, at the semester's end...Looking forward.

oh, that IS awesome. very funny...
;-)

yes, far more conducive to actual dialogue than facebook, for ex.