Fanny Hill

Check out Jonathan Yardley's review of Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure in the Post today. He calls it "a splendid bedtime story for grown-ups."

A chinchilla of decency

I don't generally have opinions about authors as people -- I usually think of them in the context of their work. They are the artist; I'm interested in their art, not their lives/selves. [No offense intended, in the unlikely even that any authors bloghop this way -- the separation keeps me from feeling guilty when I post less than stellar reviews of books.] I've liked Nora Roberts' fiction for a while, J.D. Robb more than NR really, but still, it's all the same person, right? But now that I've read the comments posted to Smart Bitches and at KateR's, I totally swoon for NR. She posted to both entries re: RWA and decency and the letter written by Jan Hudson for the Romance Writers' Report last month. Her follow up re: different subgenres being spokes to the big wheel of romance? Brilliant. How does she do sarcasm and smart so well and succinctly?

It's already morphed though -- it's now a chinchilla of decency. ::gigglesnort::