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My good friend John Scalzi believes that we authors should all
own our one-star reviews. I am with him. It is good and wise to toughen up and learn to, if not love them, at least enjoy them. To this day one of my fave punter reviews ever is from the Barnes & Noble site and declares that Magic or Madness is like a bad Australian episode of Charmed. Never fails to make me giggle.
Some days though I find bad reviews of my own work a bit hard to take. When that happens I turn to the
one-star reviews of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice which are the best therapy in the universe and never fail to cheer ...
Posted by Justine at 22:04, March 7th, 2010 under Frippery, Reading, Writing life |
Due to boring circumstances beyond my control, I will not be online much in February. Fortunately I’ve been able to line up a number of stellar guests to fill in for me. Most are writers, but I also thought it would be fun to get some publishing types to explain what it is they do, teach you some more about the industry, and answer your questions, as well as one or two bloggers.
Malinda Lo debuted in 2009 with Ash, which has made an enormous splash, getting shorlisted for gazillions of prizes and being loved by readers all over. I have heard wonderful things about it. ((Yup, Ash is on my to be read list. My reading for my 1930s book ...
Posted by Justine at 3:30, February 26th, 2010 under Guest post, Reading, State of the World |
Due to boring circumstances beyond my control, I will not be online much in February. Fortunately I’ve been able to line up a number of stellar guests to fill in for me. Most are writers, but I also thought it would be fun to get some publishing types to explain what it is they do, teach you some more about the industry, and answer your questions, as well as one or two bloggers.
Doret Canton loves sport as much as I do. In fact, I
interviewed her about that very subject right here on this blog and she said many smart and sensible things. (Except about American Football not being boring.) The reviews on
her blog are amongst my ...
Posted by Justine at 0:01, February 15th, 2010 under Guest post, Ranting, Reading, Viewing, Young Adult literature |
Due to boring circumstances beyond my control, I will not be online much in February. Fortunately I’ve been able to line up a number of stellar guests to fill in for me. Most are writers, but I also thought it would be fun to get some publishing types to explain what it is they do, teach you some more about the industry, and answer your questions, as well as one or two bloggers.
Today's guest blogger, Doselle Young, is not only one of my favourite people on the planet, he's also every bit as opinionated as me. (Though frequently wrong, like his love of Madmen and Henry Miller. Ewww.) I enjoy Do holding forth on any subject at all. He's also ...
Posted by Justine at 19:36, February 10th, 2010 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Frippery, Guest post, Ideas, Liar, Reading, Sport, State of the World, Words & Language, Writing life, Zombies v Unicorns |
Due to boring circumstances beyond my control, I will not be online much in February. Fortunately I’ve been able to line up a number of stellar guests to fill in for me. Most are writers, but I also thought it would be fun to get some publishing types to explain what it is they do, teach you some more about the industry, and answer your questions, as well as one or two bloggers.
Today we have one of my favourite YA lit bloggers, Ah Yuan, whose blog,
GAL Novelty, should be on your blogroll if it isn't already. I love how no-holds-barred her reviews are. Thoughtful, smart and conversation provoking. If you want to know a bit more about Ah ...
Posted by Justine at 18:39, February 8th, 2010 under Guest post, Reading, State of the World, Young Adult literature |
Due to boring circumstances beyond my control, I will not be online much for the next week or so. Fortunately I've been able to line up a number of stellar guests to fill in for me. Most are writers, but I also thought it would be fun to get some publishing types to explain what it is they do, teach you some more about the industry, and answer your questions, as well as one or two YA lit bloggers.
First up we have a fellow Australian, Tansy Rayner Roberts, who's not only a fine fiction writer, but her reviews and blogging skills are second to none. After reading this post I was overcome with the urge to curl up with a ...
Posted by Justine at 18:31, February 3rd, 2010 under Guest post, Reading |
First a confession: I love
Sir Kingsley Amis. That's why the heading of this post says "Kingsley & I" rather than "Kingsley & me" (which is my preference cause I reckon it sounds better) but not old Kingsley, he was a sucker for good grammar. ((He would be appalled by my grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills. Or lack thereof. Sorry, Kingsley.)) I does not wish to offend him. ((Though I do feel free to use his first name. I guess I've been reading him for so long I feel that we are now mates. A very safe feeling what with him being dead and all.))
I love Kingsley Amis for so many reasons. Because he's dead funny, because he wrote ...
Posted by Justine at 22:08, January 31st, 2010 under Liquids, Praising, Reading |
There's a
wonderful project out in the blogosphere to sing the praises of YA that has flown below the radar and not gotten the attention of, say, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Books, Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy, or my own Scott's Uglies books. I think it's a wonderful idea. All hail
Kelly for coming up with it.
I was unfamiliar with about half of the books recommended on these unsung lists, which to me means the lists are doing their job. ((Quite a few of the ones I'd heard of I hadn't read so the lists will probably kick me into actually reading them.)) Many of the book descriptions sound irresistable. So my list of books to read just ...
Posted by Justine at 0:42, January 25th, 2010 under Publishing business, Reading |
Gloating is wrong, I know, but I can't help myself. I have the new Megan Whalen Turner book to read and you don't! Mwahahahahaha.
I shall read it immediately. But I won't tell you a thing because the book isn't out until the end of March and I know you all hate spoilers as much as I do. So, yes, I will kill anyone who spoils it in the comments.
And now I'm off to read!
Update: Finished. It was good.
Posted by Justine at 1:09, January 18th, 2010 under Reading, Young Adult literature |
My romance reading project continues and I realise that I haven't explained what the project is. Very remiss of me! A few of the many books I'm writing at the moment are romances. I'm using that term very broadly to mean not just the publishing genre, but pretty much any book in which the romance between two or more characters is a big part of the overall story. To put it in fandom terms, I guess I'm talking about the kinds of stories that lend themselves to shipping.
For a long while now I've been aware that writing romance is not my strong point. While I love many of them as a reader, somehow I'm not quite able to write that ...
Posted by Justine at 22:57, January 15th, 2010 under Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
As mentioned in
my previous post, I just finished Joan Schenkar's The Talented Miss Highsmith. I loved it so I was curious to take a squizz at what reviewers had made of it and came across
this one by Jonathan Lethem. Oh. Dear.
It is exactly the kind of
review that annoys me the most. The I-don't-like-this-kind-of-book-but-I'm-reviewing-it-anyway review. Editors seem to think it dreadfully clever to get the reviewer who hates feminism to review the feminist tome, the hater of romance to review Jennifer Crusie's latest, and those who are full of contempt for teenagers and books to review YA. It will generate conflict and controversy! Goodie!
No, it will generate annoyance and boredom. I know what people who ...
Posted by Justine at 0:02, January 7th, 2010 under Ranting, Reading |
All writers fear they are a bit crazy.
Some of them are. Obviously, I am at the hardly-crazy-at-all end of the crazy-writer scale,
most other writers are much loopier than me. While that is clearly a fact, I confess that I have my moments of doubt. I have found just the cure for those moments of doubt: Patricia Highsmith.
I am reading the new bio,
The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar. Oh my. Oh wow. Oh Elvis. Highsmith redefines the crazy end of the crazy-writer scale. I have a million different responses to this book, but one is relief. Cause no matter how crazy I might (rarely) fear I am, Miss Highsmith will always be much much ...
Posted by Justine at 9:08, January 6th, 2010 under Reading, Writing life |
Some of the people who enjoyed Liar have started telling me that they want to read something else like it. I'm not sure what to tell them. I can't recommend one of my other novels because they bear no resemblance to Liar and readers would just be disappointed.
Here are three novels that people have compared to Liar:
Jacqueline Woodson's If You Come Softly. This is hugely flattering. Softly is one of
the best books I've ever read. I think Liar has some of the emotional intensity of Softly and it shares an NYC setting---with Central Park playing a key role in both novels. If Liar evokes New York City even half as well, then I've done a bang up ...
Posted by Justine at 2:12, January 2nd, 2010 under Liar, Reading, Young Adult literature |
I recently tweeted a really
interesting review of Leviathan by
Tansy Rayner Roberts. It's my favourite review so far partly because she puts into words something Scott and I have been noticing:
I find it interesting that so many people are talking about this as the latest Scott Westerfeld novel without really acknowledging that this is such a departure from his more recent work. I would not be surprised if some of the audience for the Uglies and Midnighters and Peeps books (at least the teenagers) were less interested in this new series, even as Leviathan draws in an entirely new generation of readers. It’s always interesting to see an author whose work you admire move on to pastures ...
Posted by Justine at 20:38, December 27th, 2009 under Book tour, Fans & readers, Reading, Scott's books, Young Adult literature |
I started to respond to
comments on the
last post and realised it was turning into it's own post. So, um, here it is.
Reading all your responses has crystallised something for me that I've been thinking for a long time: That there's a gap between my expectations as a reader and what I do as a writer. The reader me desperately wanted a good ending ((That good ending does not include Lily winding up with that spineless loser Selden, by the way.)) for Lily Bart in House of Mirth and was furious with Edith Wharton for all the misery. Why, Wharton, why?!
The writer me though is unmoved by such readerly desires. I write the books the way they ...
Posted by Justine at 23:39, December 22nd, 2009 under Reading, Writing life |
I recently read House of Mirth by Edith Wharton for the first time and I was gutted. Unlike, most USians, who've at least some inkling of what to expect from a Wharton book I had zero expectations or, rather, zero correct expectations. Wharton is not nearly so well known here as she is in her native country. Those Aussies who do know Wharton tend to know her from the Hollywood adaptations of her novels. I have managed to see none of them. So, I went in to the House of Mirth blind, like a lamb to the slaughter. Let me tell you: There was NO mirth.
I also went in kind of expecting her to be the USA's Jane Austen. I ...
Posted by Justine at 23:57, December 21st, 2009 under Praising, Reading |
Well, that was pure unalloyed pleasure. Though I wish I'd written this post immediately after finishing Persuasion, rather than now, when I'm still in post traumatic stress from having just read House of Mirth for the first time. ((More on that in another post. Complete with a detailed description of just how hard I wish to shake Selden and Lily Bart. Aaargh!))
Heh hem. Persuasion. Love it. Remains my favourite Jane Austen. With Pride & Prejudice only slightly behind. As I'm doing all this (re)reading in order to think about romance and heroines let's start there.
The Romance: This books seethes. It's full of glances, almost everything between Anne & Wentworth is unspoken. Until they get to Bath that is, ...
Posted by Justine at 18:43, December 20th, 2009 under Praising, Reading |
As you, my faithful readers, know lately I've been thinking about
heroines and
reader responses to them more than somewhat. This led me to re-reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey because I've never had much of an opinion about Catherine and was curious to see where she fell on the blank page spectrum. I adore Lizzy Bennet and Anne Elliot. I don't like Emma or Fanny Price. Elinor bores me and Marianne gets on my nerves but they both have their moments. But Catherine? I couldn't even remember much about her other than she's a bit wet. Cue re-read.
So what did I find? That Catherine and Henry's pairing is unequal. It's like the anti-Lizzy & Darcy. Catherine has nothing ...
Posted by Justine at 20:28, December 16th, 2009 under Reading |
Well, that was a long break, wasn't it? I return refreshed and ready to resume blogging activities.
First boring admin: I have yet to tackle my mail, given all the totally urgent work on my plate, I won't get to it until the new year. Resend if urgent. I do try to answer all mail so if I still don't answer in January could be my spam filters ate it.
And now
some commentary over at the
Misfits' Book Club on the new covers of
E. Lockhart's Ruby Oliver books. It made me really happy for two reasons:
It's a very interesting discussion of covers. I've been working on a big fat post about covers for a while now. ...
Posted by Justine at 18:36, December 16th, 2009 under Admin, Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
Or getting in a plane again. This time to Istanbul, which is a city I've never been before. Am I excited? Yes, I am. But it does mean that blogging may not be as every single day as I like it to be. Might be a couple of weeks before normal service resumes. On the other hand, there may be kickarse wireless in the hotel and I'll blog like a demon. Just to keep you on your toes.
Have fun in my absence---I know it will be hard---and patient with my slow response to emails and questions etc. If you do have any quessies for me the best way to get a response is to go to the
FAQs and ...
Posted by Justine at 0:24, December 4th, 2009 under Admin, Reading, Travelling |
Sarah Rees Brennan pointed me to
this article about Gone with the Wind by Elizabeth Meryment. It annoyed me. So prepare yourself for a rant. Basically Meryment argues that all criticism of Gone with the Wind (book and film) over the last few decades has been dreadfully unfair, especially from feminists, and why can't we all just enjoy such a women-centric book with its array of fabulous strong female characters. Now, I happen to agree that Gone with the Wind features many wonderful strong women. However, that being true does not contradict any of the criticisms made of both book and film.
Why do people find it so hard to love something and accept that it's flawed?
Gone with the ...
Posted by Justine at 12:50, December 1st, 2009 under Ranting, Reading, State of the World, Viewing |
Recently, the brilliant Sarah Rees Brennan talked about her
love of romance and reviewed a few in her inimitable style. ((Well, I could not imitate it.)) She mentioned in passing her least favourite kind of heroine:
I truly hate the Blank Page Heroine. She is in a lot of books---I don't mean to pick on romance, because sadly I have seen her in every genre, including my own---and sometimes she seems to be there as a match for the hero who won't bother him with things like 'hobbies' and 'opinions.' Sometimes she is carefully featureless (still missing those pesky hobbies and opinions) so that, apparently, the reader can identify with her and slot their own personalities onto a blank page. ...
Posted by Justine at 20:19, November 17th, 2009 under Feminism, Reading |
This year I've been getting more and more people asking about ebook editions of my novels. This is my general response to that query.
First of all: you're asking the wrong person. My publishers are in charge of the electronic rights to my novels. If you're curious
John Scalzi has more to say on this question. If you're desperate for ebooks of my stuff bug my publishers, not me. That will be much more effective.
But here's what I know: Penguin has made electronic editions of Magic Lessons and Magic's Child available. But for some reason not the first book in that trilogy, Magic or Madness. Apparently they're working on it. That's all I know.
Bloomsbury, who publish How To Ditch ...
Posted by Justine at 21:02, November 13th, 2009 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liar, Magic or Madness trilogy, Publishing business, Reading, Young Adult literature |
Today Louisville's Courier-Journal has a most excellent article
about adults reading YA by Erin Keane. I don't just say that because I was interviewed for it, but because the article is smart and non-sensationalist, and includes some actual facts:
Young adult fiction's appeal has grown way beyond the school library. What was once considered entertainment for kids has become big business for adults, who are increasingly turning to the children's section for their own reading pleasure, according to publishing experts.
Nielsen's BookScan predicted U.S. book sales will remain flat this year, but amid this industry slump, sales of young-adult titles are expected to continue to rise. It's not only teenagers who are browsing the shelves
There's no hint of panic about this ...
Posted by Justine at 12:35, October 27th, 2009 under New York City/USA, Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
First I must make a confession: I was very nervous about reading
Zetta Elliott's
A Wish After Midnight despite all the good reviews it's had. I was nervous because it's self-published and I've had some bad experiences with self-published books. Midnight does show a few (minor) signs of not coming from an established publisher such as the margins and line spacing too tight. However, within a couple of pages I stopped being bothered by them, and a few pages after that I stopped seeing them at all because I was lost in the story.
I feel like A Wish After Midnight was designed with me in mind. Because it does so many things I love as well as working ...
Posted by Justine at 12:48, September 30th, 2009 under New York City/USA, Reading, Young Adult literature |
If you haven't already read
My Life as a Rhombus by
Varian Johnson I'm really going to have to insist that you do so. As usual I won't be revealing too much about the plot mostly because I think any plot summary makes
Rhombus sound like a problem novel, ((I have a huge prejudice against problem novels which I may have to reconsider since the last few books I read that could be considered problem novels were all fabulous.)) which it really isn't. It's a character study of a wonderful, smart, engaging, confused teenager, who's a total maths geek and wants to go to Georgia Tech to become an engineer. ((I kind of wish I'd gone to ...
Posted by Justine at 11:09, September 24th, 2009 under Reading, Young Adult literature |
Several months ago, the agent Kristin Nelson got in contact with me via my agent to ask if I would take a look at the debut novel of one of her clients with a view to blurbing it. I agreed to do so, mostly because I love
Nelson's blog, but warned that I rarely blurb cause I only do so when I'm excited about a book. I am picky.
But the book---
Megan Crewe's Give Up the Ghost---hit all my sweet spots. For starters it was a ghost story. I adore a good ghost story. Secondly, it wasn't the same old, same old ghost story. It surprised me. It was fresh, original and sweet and I cried when it ended. ...
Posted by Justine at 10:49, September 23rd, 2009 under Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
Maybe I'm being unfair, but Dwight Garner's
New York TImes review of LeBron James' & Buzz Bissinger's Shooting Stars gave off the distinct reek of Eau de Condescension (via
Mitali Perkins):
“Shooting Stars,” a new collaboration between LeBron James, probably the greatest basketball player alive, and Buzz Bissinger, the author of “Friday Night Lights,” is a different kind of book. It avoids speaking about James’s professional career with the Cleveland Cavaliers (he was the National Basketball Association’s most valuable player last season) almost entirely. And since James skipped college, well, ixnay on that too.
"Ixnay"? Seriously?
“Shooting Stars” reads like a better-than-average young-adult novel, “Stand by Me” with breakaway dunks and long, arching three-pointers. I suspect it will find its best ...
Posted by Justine at 12:23, September 9th, 2009 under Ranting, Reading, Whingeing, Young Adult literature |
I have never ever wanted to learn to fly, yet
Sheri L. Smith's
Flygirl almost had me calling up flight schools. ((I suspect you need to know how to drive a car before you move on to planes. Not that I actually want to learn to fly or drive a car for that matter. Nasty smelly things.)) Ida Mae Jones lives to fly. So much so that she passes as a white woman in order to become a
WASP during World War II. The book is about race, class, gender, about friendship, obsession (for flying), love, and family.
Cut for mild spoilerage:
Posted by Justine at 13:12, September 8th, 2009 under New York City/USA, Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
I has one.
Back in May I mentioned that I wanted one on account of all the elecronic documents I read. I tried reading on my iPhone but it did not work out: too small and awkward.
After talking to friends and hearing what youse lot think I wound up getting a Sony 505. While it's not perfect and lacks many features I want, ((It does not produce mangosteens whenever I want them or set off fireworks. Honestly!)) it's made a huge difference. While flying home to Sydney, I did not have to carry the usual 5 books in my backpack on top of the entire suitcase of books. All I carried was the eReader. My back thanks me. ...
Posted by Justine at 18:56, August 31st, 2009 under Admin, Praising, Reading |
Most aspiring writers ask the right questions. I worry that
my last post, which is an
echo of
many earlier posts, gives a different impression, so I feel the need to say it loud and clear: the vast majority of aspiring writers who contact me ask smart, sensible, interesting questions. It's really only the ones who are more in love with the idea of being a writer than with actually, you know, writing who ask the wrong questions. Mercifully, they are massively outnumbered by the people who love writing.
During my events at the
Melbourne Writers Festival I wasn't asked any wrong questions. My audiences were smart and full of excellent questions. The encounter ...
Posted by Justine at 6:42, August 28th, 2009 under Fans & readers, Reading, Sydney/Australia, Writing life, Young Adult literature |
Sometimes when people read a book of mine and tell me it reminds them of some other book, especially if I have not read that book, I get in a snit. I am well aware that this reflects very poorly upon me. Please don't judge. ((Well, not too harshly.)) So when I was told that Liar was reminiscent of
Jacqueline Woodson's If You Come Softly ((And I'm very embarrassed by this but I can't remember who told me.)) my first reaction was pursed lipped muttering to myself about the special petal-ness of Liar and how it's not like any other book ever. ((Which is utter rubbish. Any book that was not like any other book ever would be completely ...
Posted by Justine at 1:11, August 11th, 2009 under Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
Because I'm in transit, ((These two guest posts are timed to post while I'm travelling. If your comments get stuck in moderation you'll have to be patient. Sorry.)) I asked
Ari if she would step in for me, and she kindly said yes. Thanks, Ari!
I'm back! So yesterday I gave you a list of books about poc that I think you should read, although I'm sure I left off some great books by accident. If you want some more lists check out Susan's at
Color Online for specifically sci-fi check this out the
Happy Nappy Bookseller's list and for bi-racial, multi-racial poc
go here.
Also I want to share some information with you ...
Posted by Justine at 7:47, July 28th, 2009 under Guest post, Reading, State of the World, Writing process, Young Adult literature |
Because I'm in transit, ((These two guest posts are timed to post while I'm travelling. If your comments get stuck in moderation you'll have to be patient. Sorry.)) I asked
Ari if she would step in for me today and tomorrow, and she kindly said yes. Thanks, Ari!
A little bit about Ari MissAttitude: I'm a teenager who loves to read, dance, laugh, listen to music and just live! I also love my fine brown skin =) I started my blog
Reading in Color because I would visit teen book blogs and I never saw reviews of books with poc (people of color). This frustrated me so I decided to start my own blog in an attempt to slightly ...
Posted by Justine at 7:24, July 27th, 2009 under Guest post, Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
But first, Morgan, one of the winners of
the last giveaway, still hasn't
contacted me. Please do so! Your copy of Love is Hell and the Liar sampler awaits!
Once again the giveaway is based around a post I've been meaning to write for ages on dialogue. Way back in January when I did my whole month of writing advice I promised I'd write a whole post about how to write dialogue. But it never happened. I have started such a post but I has not finished it. Sorry!
In the comments please share your favourite bit of dialogue from literature. I'm using that term very broadly, so, yes you can include an exchange from any genre: YA, crime, romance, ...
Posted by Justine at 12:25, July 11th, 2009 under Bloggery, Reading |
Posted by Justine at 15:54, July 1st, 2009 under New York City/USA, Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
Lately I've read quite a few books people have been raving about and been really disappointed. So it was a relief to read two books that I loved, Sarah Rees Brennan's Demon's Lexicon and Coe Booth's Kendra. Today I'll be talking about DL, next week I'll talk about the fabulously brilliant Kendra.
Demon's Lexicon is told from the point of view of a sociopath. Nick does not get other people. He doesn't understand what they're thinking, why they do the things they do, or why they talk so much. He's a classic case of a character who's fabulous in a book but I would run a mile if I ran into him in real life. He has no qualms killing! This ...
Posted by Justine at 15:02, June 26th, 2009 under Reading, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 8:27, June 22nd, 2009 under Reading |
Posted by Justine at 11:25, June 16th, 2009 under Reading, State of the World, Words & Language, Writing process |
Sometimes I think the best course of action for me is to simply not read anything in the New York Times
about books by women. I just wind up
cranky.
Today's piece by Janet Maslin on this summer's books by women was astonishing. On the one hand there's this:
The “Commencement” characters are savvy about, among other things, feminism and publishing. “When a woman writes a book that has anything to do with feelings or relationships, it’s either called chick lit or women’s fiction, right?” one of them asks. “But look at Updike, or Irving. Imagine if they’d been women. Just imagine. Someone would have slapped a pink cover onto ‘Rabbit at Rest,’ and poof, there goes the ...
Posted by Justine at 12:53, June 12th, 2009 under New York City/USA, Ranting, Reading |
Posted by Justine at 0:00, June 8th, 2009 under Publishing business, Reading |
Update with warning: Do not post spam here about your boy-friendly book. I am
deleting all such comments.
One of the most gratifying aspects of meeting people who've read How To Ditch Your Fairy since it came out last September (in the USA) is the number of boys who've turned out to be fans of the book. I will admit that given the title and the cover I was expecting an almost non-existent boy readership. I've been told a million times that boys won't touch a pink book and that HTDYF is irredeemably pink. So I've been dead chuffed by the boy fans.
While on tour for the book last year many parents asked me if they thought my book would ...
Posted by Justine at 8:11, June 5th, 2009 under Book tour, Cons & Other Gatherings, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Reading |
Posted by Justine at 9:42, May 10th, 2009 under 1930s NYC novel, Reading |
I want one. I read gazillions of electronic documents: friend's manuscripts, pdfs, public domain books etc etc. I would love to have a portable device to read them on. I've tried various different reader software on my iPhone, and maybe I'm old, but the iPhone is too small.
The electronic reader I want doesn't exist. I've been reading up on the two main models, the Kindle and the Sony Ereader, and while the Sony has more appeal there are problems. The biggest one being that the touch-screen version is not Mac compatible. Given that my main use for a reader is for manuscripts and research pdfs that's a huge problem. (My iPhone has made me a touch screen addict.)
The main ...
Posted by Justine at 12:46, May 5th, 2009 under Reading |
Posted by Justine at 8:13, April 20th, 2009 under Reading, Viewing |
Posted by Justine at 0:16, February 11th, 2009 under New York City/USA, Reading, Writing life, Writing process |
Posted by Justine at 0:49, January 9th, 2009 under Reading, Writing process |
Posted by Justine at 5:19, December 26th, 2008 under 1930s NYC novel, Fans & readers, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy, Mangosteens, Praising, Reading, Sport, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 20:03, December 14th, 2008 under Reading, Unicorns, Young Adult literature, Zombies |
Posted by Justine at 0:00, December 1st, 2008 under Fans & readers, Praising, Reading |
