Comments on: The Status Galleys Book Club http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/the-status-galleys-book-club fiction matters Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: jenni http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/the-status-galleys-book-club/comment-page-1#comment-2630 jenni Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:24:57 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=4014#comment-2630 The status of galleys are yet another reason to review for this site! I'd love to get my hands on the Dan Chaon galley. Anyone? And I read the second HUNGER GAMES galley on an airplane last weekend. (A wildly bestselling YA series and good!) I think this would make me cool in some circles - though probably not this circle. In any case, no one hit on me on the plane. The status of galleys are yet another reason to review for this site! I’d love to get my hands on the Dan Chaon galley. Anyone? And I read the second HUNGER GAMES galley on an airplane last weekend. (A wildly bestselling YA series and good!) I think this would make me cool in some circles – though probably not this circle. In any case, no one hit on me on the plane.

]]> By: Paul Dorell http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/the-status-galleys-book-club/comment-page-1#comment-2628 Paul Dorell Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:36:54 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=4014#comment-2628 I didn't think you got ANY cred for riding on a subway...perhaps street cred? But what would I know: I currently have the misfortune of living in Illinois. P.S. Am enjoying "Delicate Edible Birds." Groff is more thematically varied than L.M. I love intergenerational writing, too, which is not a strong feature in L.M. Groff isn't as witty, but seems much more in tune with those around her than our sullen muse. One general comment I have is that many of you seem too young to have the gravitas requisite for the sort of literature that I prefer. Hopefully you're not the literary equivalent of MBA's who get all the necessary technical skills to run a company and then, thinking they’ll make tons of money, torpedo the economy. I'm entering my old codger phase and like to think that experience counts for something. I didn’t think you got ANY cred for riding on a subway…perhaps street cred? But what would I know: I currently have the misfortune of living in Illinois.

P.S. Am enjoying “Delicate Edible Birds.” Groff is more thematically varied than L.M. I love intergenerational writing, too, which is not a strong feature in L.M. Groff isn’t as witty, but seems much more in tune with those around her than our sullen muse. One general comment I have is that many of you seem too young to have the gravitas requisite for the sort of literature that I prefer. Hopefully you’re not the literary equivalent of MBA’s who get all the necessary technical skills to run a company and then, thinking they’ll make tons of money, torpedo the economy. I’m entering my old codger phase and like to think that experience counts for something.

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