Comments on: Two books I didn’t like (sad, sad)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:27:05 +0000

Exactly! If they are creepy at the beginning they will only get MUCH MORE CREEPY later. I feel like girls have enough negative media images out there, without adding in this whole idea of stalkers being romantic.

Thanks for your good wishes about grad school! 🙂

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:24:53 +0000

In reply to Nymeth.

Thanks! I am trying to stay optimistic. 🙂

I may never know about Salamander Dreams – my library doesn’t have it and my bookshops so far have refused to order it for me. HATE.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:20:12 +0000

In reply to litlove. Thank you! That's what I'm trying to convince myself of! This one seemed like a great idea because it was in a town where I know a whole bunch of people. Lovely people. People who would have fed me and shown me around. But I think, I think, it will be for the best.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:17:38 +0000

In reply to Jessica. Thank you! My fingers are very very crossed to get in somewhere else...

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:15:01 +0000

In reply to softdrink.

Thanks – I seem to be saddest when somebody says “Aw, Jen, that really sucks,” and then the rest of the time I’m fine. I am never sure whether this means I am playing up to my friends and family, or repressing my true feelings 99% of the time. 😛

By: boxofbooks

boxofbooks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:47:00 +0000

What is up with literary stalkers? You can tell the writer wants to make the stalker seem very romantic and dedicated but 9 times out of 10 they just come off as complete creeps. I just read William Boyd’s “Armadillo”, where the hero (otherwise pretty appealing) takes a hard left into Stalker City during Part 2, which totally ruined the romantic ending for me. I kept thinking, “Oh, sure, they’re in love now, but as soon as the book ends, you know he’s going to start checking up on her cell phone bills.”

Sorry about your school, Jenny. I hope you get better news next time.

By: Nymeth

Nymeth — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:29:13 +0000

I’m so sorry about grad school, Jenny! Silly admissions officers, can’t they see how talented you are?! I have faith that the other schools will show more sense. As Jessica said, their loss!

And that’s too bad about Gray Horses…I was looking forward to it, as I enjoyed her other books. Hopefully I’ll have more luck with it than you did, though. I think it could definitely also be said that there isn’t quite enough in Salamander Dreams for a book, but I enjoyed the visuals and the feel of it enough that it didn’t matter.

By: litlove

litlove — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:41:43 +0000

Pshaw! There are other grad schools. Fate has a hand in this, you know, and the chances are it was helping you to dodge a bullet. Your rightful place will reveal itself.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:31:43 +0000

Crazy Jenny/ Sane Jenny! Ha– that’s classic:)

I’m sorry you didn’t get in to one of your school picks. They were crazy to not let you in! Their loss!

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:22:59 +0000

In reply to Jenny. Zilpha Keatley Snyder is one of those undependable ones. I find a lot of her books to be really disturbing and strange, but a few of them are great. I remember especially liking The Velvet Room and Libby on Wednesday - and I always thought that one of the books Libby was writing (set in the Depression, called something like The Pierce-Arrow Palace) sounded an awful lot like The Velvet Room.