BethLP11 t1_je8ppon wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:55 AM

Reply to Is it okay to reach out to your favorite authors? by Smooth_Service8931

Do it!

I sent a handwritten note to a first-time author to tell her how much I enjoyed her book, and she sent me back a very sweet, appreciative letter. She had contact info for snail mail on her website.

BethLP11 t1_je76c6t wrote on March 29, 2023 at 10:11 PM

Reply to D.M. Thomas, the English novelist whose ingenious interweaving of Freudian themes and the Holocaust made “The White Hotel” a surprise best seller in 1981, died on Sunday at his home in England. He was 88. by abaganoush

Read it in 1981. It was unique, disturbing, erotic, violent, and I literally recalled one of its scenes last week.

BethLP11 t1_jdyhb0s wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:43 AM

Reply to This one by LM Montgomery did not age well by Bookanista

Yeah, I read that one. DEFINITELY not her best.

Also? "A Tangled Web" which had a lot I found interesting because it was written post-WWI? Ends with a character using the N-word in reference to a figurine. YIKES.