Gone for a couple of days, and all hell continues...

It just took me two hours to work through my sidebar's "Blog Hopping" section. While sitting in the car yesterday, waiting to pick Junior up from school, I wrote an entire blog post that I planned to type in yesterday afternoon. Never got to it. So, I decided I really needed to see what was going on in romance blog land.

Holy Crap, it seems like things went from bad to down right ugly--LOL.

Forget what I was going to write, I'm just passing on news from different sites...

MJD decided to enter the PC Cast fray over on Smart Bitches. A day late and a dollar short, she should have left well enough alone.

There are links and comments in several different places regarding the DOS "Scandal" over on AAR,you'll have to find the actual message board yourself. If you've been under a rock like I have for the past few days it grew into a huge mess, with Miss Ashworth refusing to come back to the boards. I actually don't blame her.

I've come to the conclusion that if you're reading any book with a highlighter or red correction pen, you're not reading for pleasure. Perhaps real reviewers do this, but since I'm not really a reviewer, just a commenter on what I read, I don't do this. That was grammatically incorrect, sorry. My grammar sucks, it comes from writing from a conversational view point, not a reading one. I'm not likely to pick apart someone else's grammar, but I can find some glaring errors, misspellings and typos. Maybe I'm wrong, but once an author has submitted a book, isn't it the editorial staffs responsibility to 1. Make sure it reads cohesively, 2. Correct spelling and typo mistakes. I'm more likely to blame the publisher than the author for these mistakes.

When it comes to cheesy dialogue, bad character developement and poor plotting, now, that I will blame on the author.

Bad books happen to good authors, they need to remember a bad review is about the book not the author. But, I do think that the thread over on AAR went way to far.

Cranky does an excellent job, commentating on some of this, as does Dear Author and Kristie and several others.

JMC left me laughing with her reference to "The Shrub".

Keishon's looking for secret favorites.

Maili's got company coming and is looking for favorite love songs.

Mary Stella made me cry with the poem she wrote for "Mom", it's very sweet.

Karen is visiting "At The Back Fence".

Fiona's defending Johanna Lindsey.

Thanks to all for keeping me very entertained while I should have been cleaning. I needed the pick me up--the SILFH is pregnant again and the last pregnancy drove her and the rest of the family over the edge. This isn't going to be pretty, maybe it will swing her back towards normal instead of completely insane. A new baby in the family is good news, even if the mother's a little crazy.

Have a great day and happy reading.