Comments | lady_schrapnell: Book 1: ANGEL KISS, Laura Jane Cassidy

lady_schrapnell

Book 1: ANGEL KISS, Laura Jane Cassidy

Jun 08, 2012 22:30

Nice start! Am wasting valuable reading time trying to figure out size adjustment and image deletion and various other stupid things I've forgotten, so the cover can be seen (I like it), without taking up everyone's friends' pages.

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ya, 48 hour book challenge, books

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diceytillerman June 8 2012, 21:55:22 UTC

cod-Irish

May I ask what that means?

lady_schrapnell June 8 2012, 22:32:56 UTC

Oh -- uh, hmm. Oirish (Actually, this may not even be a real expression - having a totally blank moment about whether it's just our family!) Do you remember the ads that used to be on TV for Irish Spring soap? With lilting music and beautiful red-haired lasses and people saying "Top of the mornin' to ye!". And all the villagers would have to be quaint, or real characters, you know ( ... )

diceytillerman June 8 2012, 22:34:56 UTC

Thank you! I do know what you mean, now. I didn't know the "cod" term. :)

lady_schrapnell June 8 2012, 22:36:44 UTC

Well, good, so there has been communication, even if nobody else had ever known the cod term before either! :)

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ccwtaylor June 9 2012, 00:36:08 UTC

I like reading about villages! I'll look out for this one.

I hope your reading goes well!

lady_schrapnell June 9 2012, 09:22:18 UTC

I'm not sure about its publication outside the UK, actually.

Thanks for the reading wish! I've returned it on your blog. :)

gonna start w/number 1 and work my way forward! asakiyume June 13 2012, 17:31:17 UTC

Authentic-sounding dialogue and a pleasantly real-seeming setting can do a lot to make a book worthwhile, and I like that you say it bucks the nobody will believe meeee trend.

Re: gonna start w/number 1 and work my way forward! lady_schrapnell June 13 2012, 18:31:31 UTC

I did like those elements, but I wouldn't recommend it to you. :) And now I'm curious about whether there was a US equivalent of Jackie. I don't think of the younger teen girls' magazines as having stories in them, but that might not be right? Ooh, reminds me - at the church fair this year, there was a Jackie annual, with the cover shouting out "The best thing for girls - next to boys". And it was 2005, too! Ugh.

Re: gonna start w/number 1 and work my way forward! asakiyume June 13 2012, 18:37:05 UTC

Have you heard about the horrible gender-coded Scholastic survival guides? And that's *this* year :-( As Ryan North said, why not just call one the adventure survival guide and the other the social survival guide? Why specify sexes?

Re: gonna start w/number 1 and work my way forward! lady_schrapnell June 13 2012, 19:01:13 UTC

Ergh. I hadn't heard about those!