Sometimes readers read for idiosyncratic, stupid reasons.
I just checked my email and found a post from a mystery-related mailing list. In it the author extolled her latest book, warned us that it is super-cozy (we are in the midst of the semi-annual round of cozy-versus-hardboiled, in which the hardboiled people sneer at the cozies and I lose my temper--AMAZING AS THAT MAY SOUND TO YOU ALL!!) and suggested we check out her Web site. While there, she also suggested we check out her astonishingly beauteous great-grandchildren.
So I did.
And the great-grandchildren are, in fact, so astonishingly beauteous that I went directly to the public library site and found a book by her, which I placed on hold.
Yes, I will actually read a book by an author just because her great-grandchildren are astonishingly beauteous.
Observe for yourself!
And besides, now I know she is a truthful lady, so if she tells me the book is good I have reason to believe her...
I just checked my email and found a post from a mystery-related mailing list. In it the author extolled her latest book, warned us that it is super-cozy (we are in the midst of the semi-annual round of cozy-versus-hardboiled, in which the hardboiled people sneer at the cozies and I lose my temper--AMAZING AS THAT MAY SOUND TO YOU ALL!!) and suggested we check out her Web site. While there, she also suggested we check out her astonishingly beauteous great-grandchildren.
So I did.
And the great-grandchildren are, in fact, so astonishingly beauteous that I went directly to the public library site and found a book by her, which I placed on hold.
Yes, I will actually read a book by an author just because her great-grandchildren are astonishingly beauteous.
Observe for yourself!
And besides, now I know she is a truthful lady, so if she tells me the book is good I have reason to believe her...
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(That littlest baby looks as if she'd like to get the camera out of her face--she wonders what that crazy box that flashes at her could possibly be! But I'm disappointed--I went over there thinking that her grands must be _horses_ or cats. They're cute, but I figured they must be pets to get this kind of recommendation! *GRIN*)
And yes, it's spring, so it's time for the latest neener-neener go-round about whose subgenre can beat up whose. I really should have the sense to stay out of that by now, but I never do!