Comments on: A meme about books & coziness

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:47:42 +0000

Bethany, let me know if you read Peter Pan. I read it (the novel version) not too long ago and it was very different from what I expected. In fact I found the Wendy-Peter thing kind of creepy, to tell the truth.

Myrthe, bummer. I guess I should clarify that I get a kick out of finding those kind of errors in a book that is already awful. I wouldn’t want to find errors in a book that was otherwise good.

Fred, unshaven, unkempt, lazy, computer. Hmmm, except for the unshaven part, could be me. ;-)

Chartroose, funny you should mention Anne of GG. I was never a huge fan of Anne, in childhood or now. (I’ll take Jo March any day!) Nevertheless I’ve been following the progress of the Anne blog with interest, just because it’s fun to read others’ reminiscences of their favorite childhood book.

Care, me too!

By: Care

Care — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:14:12 +0000

Yes, blogging has encouraged me to read a much bigger variety of genres.

By: chartroose

chartroose — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:33:30 +0000

Excellent answers! It’s funny, you mentioned Heidi, because I recently reread “Anne of Geeen Gables” and found myself nearly gagging during some of the more cuddly parts. I loved it earlier on, so what happened?

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Since I got up at 11 a.m. today, my picture would have feature someone who is unshaven, unkempt, and extremely lazy. It would have to include one with a computer, not a book.

By: Myrthe

Myrthe — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:20:45 +0000

The Book Thief was also a book that I was rather surprised about how much I liked it (there is something grammatically wrong with this sentence. I know it. I just know it.). I am not swooning over it like so many people are, but I did like it a lot more than I actually thought I would.

In one of the books I read last week (review will be up on my blog in a few days) I found several factual errors and a few about which I am not 100% sure, but I seriously suspect them to be. Though this did initially stop me from liking the book, the book had other aspects that made me eventually reconsider my opinion. Better fact-checking by either the author or the editor would not have been wasted on this particular book and it would have actually made this book a lot better in my opinion, improving my opinion of it from ‘fairly good’ to ‘very good’.