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I must admit my reaction to that article was that she'd engaged in some heavy overanalysis. I mean, I'm sure authors have different reasons for setting their novels in historical periods and I'm sure that they include some of the very worthy reasons she gives - but I also have a suspicion that...

Backup data to support that allegation, please. Copied the plots? So how come nobody managed to guess ahead of time how the series was going to play out? No it isn't. You mean, the way she said she based the name on her friend Ian Potter? What evidence do you have that she was lying...

I haven't read it, but I gave a copy to a friend who's very interested in politics and who's a lifelong Democrat who was beginning to lean toward the Republicans. I think that book gave her some encouragement to stick with the Democrats even though they tend to be more tolerant of abortion and...

This sounds like an empty threat. What on earth is she going to do if he refuses - support John McCain?

Fun, innit?:D

There's also the consideration that for the people who don't like smilies, having a larger choice here means that those of us who do use them will be more inclined to stick with the convenience of the in-house ones and not wander over to smilie repositories and start rooting around there and...

It's more convenient to just click a smilie here or type a simple code like :flower: than to have to open another window in order to search around smilie collections, copy some long URL string, come back to the conversation here, figure out where you were going to add it, and paste the URL...

I read mostly nonfiction - books about history, science and nature, religion, philosophy, current events, that sort of thing. But I usually have a historical or fantasy novel on the go as well for when I want to be entertained rather than informed.

And how appropriate <-Libra

Stewart's worst nightmare....:D And if he thinks the smilies we're using are schlocky, those Smiley Central ones would really make his day...

Glad we've got that clarified, then...

Well, in this case, I think the "Stewart" option might have been the equivalent of a simple No.:D

Well, at least there isn't the option to delete the few we have already! Thanks for being merciful, Libra.

You need to get a Photobucket account and save them there. Then you can post the IMG link in your messages.

I find Stephen Jay Gould's writing a bit hard to handle, sometimes. I must admit that The Structure of Evolutionary Theory pretty much defeated me. I find Niles Eldredge's books easier to read, on the whole. I do like some of Gould's books that are collections of articles, though.

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Hi, HPRox!

Sometimes the author just needs a good editor. When you have an American author writing about medieval London and coming up with something like "Thames River," it just makes my teeth ache, in the same way, probably, that an American would react to a British writer referring to the River...

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Judging by certain people's signatures, it is...;) I'm glad to hear that "You mean you can't express yourself with words on a forum where one would expect to find literacy?" doesn't imply ignorance and illiteracy on the part of the people asking.