tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005038831999639346.post8559190990001028746..comments2023-08-04T04:31:39.771-07:00Comments on My Life and Hard Times: Lapses of Attention -- A Review of James Goldberg's The Five Books of JesusJames Goldberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14422536627746885883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005038831999639346.post-88647214496090523222012-12-06T09:48:48.801-08:002012-12-06T09:48:48.801-08:00Actually, Merrijane, my next work of historical fi...Actually, Merrijane, my next work of historical fiction is set in early 2012, and a fictional version of you is the protagonist! <br /><br />But don't worry. I break up the housework scenes with your exciting work in the insurance industry and action-packed Facebook surfing sequences. James Goldberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14422536627746885883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005038831999639346.post-47920465739873866992012-12-06T09:46:13.643-08:002012-12-06T09:46:13.643-08:00And somewhere an editor at DB is either pulling he...And somewhere an editor at DB is either pulling her hair out or cackling with an insane sense of release over that letter. <br /><br />Not only does she have to deal with reader concerns over the books she's actually selling--you've vindicated her sense of by making her accountable burden for your responses to every book in the world. <br /><br />The preemptive letter was the logical extension of every DB editor's headaches. Good work, Katya, in making that letter a reality! James Goldberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14422536627746885883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005038831999639346.post-60967930727190144952012-12-06T09:19:04.567-08:002012-12-06T09:19:04.567-08:00I've written a letter to Deseret Book preempti...I've written a letter to Deseret Book preemptively asking them never to sell it.Katyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11771780464356547742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005038831999639346.post-12781947150592085992012-12-06T08:46:08.470-08:002012-12-06T08:46:08.470-08:00Oh horrors! The women are too often portrayed in t...Oh horrors! The women are too often portrayed in the *kitchen* of all places? Housework?? Yeesh. Let's hope my life never gets memorialized by historical fiction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005038831999639346.post-88338559674698080402012-12-06T08:29:57.788-08:002012-12-06T08:29:57.788-08:00I did put the book down! Though, admittedly, I onl...I did put the book down! Though, admittedly, I only put it down on the table in front of me. And it was still open. And I kept turning pages....James Goldberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14422536627746885883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005038831999639346.post-64014534588967099292012-12-06T04:06:04.615-08:002012-12-06T04:06:04.615-08:00I'm glad someone else picked up on that James-...I'm glad someone else picked up on that James-as-Peter garbage. I nearly put down the book after that heresy. Scott Haleshttp://www.low-techworld.orgnoreply@blogger.com