tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post2838939348076763025..comments2023-10-11T09:22:33.136-04:00Comments on Paperback Writer: RW: Take Me AwayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-67255494702617793602007-09-07T23:44:00.000-04:002007-09-07T23:44:00.000-04:00Please throw my name into the hat.Please throw my name into the hat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-50622988481611071222007-09-07T20:16:00.000-04:002007-09-07T20:16:00.000-04:00I just gotta say that bran fan cracks me up...I'm ...I just gotta say that bran fan cracks me up...<BR/><BR/>I'm too tired to think straight, so I'd just like to toss my name in the hat please.<BR/><BR/>Thanks.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402896774645971779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-75726201746944763842007-09-07T14:16:00.000-04:002007-09-07T14:16:00.000-04:00I was thinking the same thing,mrs. mj! Jennifer C...I was thinking the same thing,mrs. mj! Jennifer Crusie's books taught me more about character dynamics and dialogue.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063570295376485293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-28198321810568620332007-09-07T13:23:00.000-04:002007-09-07T13:23:00.000-04:00Jenny Crusie's books taught me the importance of c...Jenny Crusie's books taught me the importance of community to the development of the characters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-76503176309723068542007-09-07T11:25:00.000-04:002007-09-07T11:25:00.000-04:00I've had to think about this for several days. Exc...I've had to think about this for several days. Excellent question. Most books I read teach me something. Sometimes it's what not to do, but I'm mainly looking for techniques that work and why they work.<BR/><BR/>Your 'Endurance' taught me about grabbing the reader quickly. The first scene snatched me in within a few words.<BR/><BR/>Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Poisonwood Bible' taught me about unique, identifiable, first-person voices. <BR/><BR/>Lois McMaster Bujold taught me about story. A good one trumps being obsessive about 'the rules'. <BR/><BR/>Those are just a few. I'm still learning and hope to for as long as my brain will hold up...which is a debatable timeline. I may already be past help. But the journey is still worth it.<BR/><BR/>Karen, the lurkerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-30127845523618101152007-09-07T10:05:00.000-04:002007-09-07T10:05:00.000-04:00Florence Littauer taught me to understand the four...Florence Littauer taught me to understand the four different personalities. Please include me in the drawing.C.Gwynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09366614978305162856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-66661332739504221932007-09-07T09:37:00.000-04:002007-09-07T09:37:00.000-04:00its an odd choice bu Stephen DonaldsonIssyits an odd choice bu Stephen Donaldson<BR/><BR/>IssyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-61979571811990825272007-09-07T08:23:00.000-04:002007-09-07T08:23:00.000-04:00I posted earlier but I must have screwed up.Andre...I posted earlier but I must have screwed up.<BR/>Andre Norton taught me the value of infer and imply for strong emotions.Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-20798443442684981392007-09-06T18:57:00.000-04:002007-09-06T18:57:00.000-04:00Betty Smith taught me that gritty can be real with...Betty Smith taught me that gritty can be real without being gratuitous, in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", and "Maggie-Now", read, of course, when I was very young.Chrissiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10205353724490984253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-34425704201885034202007-09-06T18:41:00.000-04:002007-09-06T18:41:00.000-04:00Just throwing my name in the hat. Looks like a go...Just throwing my name in the hat. Looks like a good book. I started reading romance books in my teens when I had to sneak them past my religiously forbidding mother. They were $0.10 for used ones at the library.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-89494011534320406862007-09-06T15:21:00.000-04:002007-09-06T15:21:00.000-04:00I learned from Lois Lowry (The Giver) that pain is...I learned from Lois Lowry (The Giver) that pain is the opposite side of pleasure. And that to banish suffering from the world is to also banish joy and to avoid truly living. You can't have joy and the good things of life without the bad as well.Rachel Bichahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536030655646977398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-66717373828367936502007-09-06T12:17:00.000-04:002007-09-06T12:17:00.000-04:00sounds so hot. love Jo books.kim hsounds so hot. love Jo books.<BR/><BR/>kim hAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-43817846366747493272007-09-06T11:22:00.000-04:002007-09-06T11:22:00.000-04:00It was Jenny Crusie who articulated what I really ...It was Jenny Crusie who articulated what I really like about many books, and why I enjoy reading series like Stardoc and Kelly Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld. I really appreciate the community in a novel. The characters don't live in a vaccuum. They are surrounded by people who influence their lives.<BR/>JulieBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-7028973973388930402007-09-06T09:48:00.000-04:002007-09-06T09:48:00.000-04:00Mine is Message from Nam by Danielle Steel.I don't...Mine is Message from Nam by Danielle Steel.<BR/><BR/>I don't read her anymore, but Message from Nam has a special place on my keeper shelf. I learned more about the Vietnam War than I did ever did in my history class (yes, I'm young). lol<BR/><BR/>That book still has the ability to make me tear up when I re-read it, which isn't often.Caseehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03164959083643636736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-60641648042037425622007-09-06T06:40:00.000-04:002007-09-06T06:40:00.000-04:00Please throw my name in the hat.Please throw my name in the hat.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392692656456938856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-34628871338979286422007-09-06T02:39:00.000-04:002007-09-06T02:39:00.000-04:00Please throw my name into the hat.Please throw my name into the hat.Lilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13680968217522258788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-8859544374961323802007-09-06T00:04:00.000-04:002007-09-06T00:04:00.000-04:001984 by George Orwell taught me that Big Brother i...1984 by George Orwell taught me that Big Brother is not good.<BR/><BR/>Hm...maybe I'll try a category romance. I've never read one before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-14156758298805766892007-09-06T00:03:00.000-04:002007-09-06T00:03:00.000-04:00Johanna Lindsey taught me medivial history facts. ...Johanna Lindsey taught me medivial history facts. When I went to college and we covered that period, I was nodding my head and realized I had already learned most of it via my historical romance novels! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-4028657430618621722007-09-05T23:52:00.000-04:002007-09-05T23:52:00.000-04:00Please throw my name into the hat!Thanks,Terri W.Please throw my name into the hat!<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/><BR/>Terri W.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-74967096731111918022007-09-05T23:21:00.000-04:002007-09-05T23:21:00.000-04:00Ursula K. Leguin taught me (in The Dispossessed) t...Ursula K. Leguin taught me (in The Dispossessed) that you can always come home, as long as you realize that home is no longer the place you left.<BR/><BR/>Jackie L.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-17643647315762287232007-09-05T23:11:00.000-04:002007-09-05T23:11:00.000-04:00As much as I like Anne McCaffrey's work, her first...As much as I like Anne McCaffrey's work, her first published novel, <I>Restoree,</I> taught me a couple of things <I>not</I> to do.<BR/><BR/>1) Don't write a Mary Sue, wish-fulfilling main character.<BR/><BR/>2) <I>Never</I> have your character "smirk," "laugh," or "rasp" words, especially not with an endless parade of adverbs following.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15058219643912780497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-30122000022541424812007-09-05T22:59:00.000-04:002007-09-05T22:59:00.000-04:00ooh Love deecee answer about shelly laurenston lol...ooh Love deecee answer about shelly laurenston lol. I learn something in every book I read. So please throw my name in the hat.Pamkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02880471140530575964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-62386918393401166972007-09-05T21:46:00.000-04:002007-09-05T21:46:00.000-04:00I gotta admit that I started reading category roma...I gotta admit that I started reading category romance when I was 14.. (a few years back yea)<BR/>;-)<BR/><BR/>And did you know that Edgar Rice Burroughs also wrote Westerns?Cyn Bagleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404416186783891402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-41921794614752201542007-09-05T21:08:00.000-04:002007-09-05T21:08:00.000-04:00Jo Rowling taught me to believe in magic.J.R. Ward...Jo Rowling taught me to believe in magic.<BR/><BR/>J.R. Ward taught me how to sound out and spell via hooked on phonics. <BR/><BR/>Shelly Laurenston showed me that women can be incredibly strong and have language that can rival a sailor's.DeeCeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01429422379796990633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-14127565518577613232007-09-05T21:06:00.000-04:002007-09-05T21:06:00.000-04:00Don't put me in the drawing, I already ordered a c...Don't put me in the drawing, I already ordered a copy. ... And thanks for the recommendation.wwwAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com