I'm sick of everyone who says something racist or sexist or behaves badly apologizing for it afterwards and then supposes that makes it all right. When did this start?



We've had Mel Gibson, Russell Crow, Hugh Grant twice, Don Imus and now Alec Baldwin. I know I'm leaving lots of people out. The thing is, I don't care about their apologies.



What I would care about is if writers who've written very bad books would apologize. But they wouldn't dream of it. And if they did it… Continue

I haven't been here because I had computer problems. It went on and on with my provider. Finally I reinstalled Windowsxp. Lost everything, of course. But it still didn't help. I couldn't get on line...at least not on my home page, which meant I couldn't get mail.



So after 6 phone calls, a visit from 4 tech people nothing was fixed. Finally I got a supervisor. She had me try a different way to connect my computer to modem. Well, it took a WOMAN (couldn't resist) to help me. The trouble… Continue

As I said in my first post (the one with the big type) I wasn't sure what to post here and didn't know if I should do book reviews. Well, I'm not going to do a book review but I do want to say something about Lippman's new book, WHAT THE DEAD KNOW.



I have not always been a fan of Lippman's writing. I read her first book and I think the second and dismissed her. She will tell you herself that her first five books aren't her best.



I kept reading the raves about her. The winning… Continue

This is hard for me because I'm so used to writing about writing on my own blog.



Do I dare write negative things about books I've read? What if I do and that person joins this group? He/she won't want to be my friend. Then what?



So does that mean I can only write positive things about books I've read? Maybe I should leave that subject alone.



How about movies? I'm not good at writing reviews. I can say I liked something or didn't but I'm not sure I… Continue