On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 1:22:05 AM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> On 24/10/22 03:28, Tony Nance wrote:
> >
> > So what are you reading?
> > - Tony
> (Hal Heydt)
> Not reading anything at the moment. Last thing I read--reread,
> actually--was Graydon Saunders _Commonweal_ series. I am
> awaiting the next book in the series.

I'm looking forward to reading them some time. I enjoyed
his many years as a contributor here as well.
- Tony

On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 2:01:54 AM UTC-4, Default User wrote:
> Tony Nance wrote:
>
> >So what are you reading?
> Some mystery series and SF anthologies. Next up in the latter category
> is Made to Order, an original anthology of robot stories, edited by
> Jonathan Strahan. I also have Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty after
> that.
>

How's the Strahan? I've read a couple of anthologies he's edited and
they went pretty well.

Tony

On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >So what are you reading?
> >- Tony
> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
>

Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
what to try next.

Tony

On 27/10/22 14:12, Tony Nance wrote:
> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
>> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>> So what are you reading?
>>> - Tony
>> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
>>
>
> Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
> what to try next.
>
> Tony

I must have read more but all I can recall at the moment is the two book
epic War and Peace, (nothing to do with the minor not so well known work
of Leo Tolstoy). I enjoyed them.
I would be interested to read Jerry Brown's rankings or suggestions.

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:20:10 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

>On 27/10/22 14:12, Tony Nance wrote:
>> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
>>> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>> So what are you reading?
>>>> - Tony
>>> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
>> what to try next.
>>
>> Tony
>
>I must have read more but all I can recall at the moment is the two book
>epic War and Peace, (nothing to do with the minor not so well known work
>of Leo Tolstoy). I enjoyed them.
>I would be interested to read Jerry Brown's rankings or suggestions.

I'll have a think about it. I won't be able to do anything as detailed
as, say, Lynne MacGuire's reviews - maybe a couple of lines
summarising each plot and whether it's stood the test of time since I
last read it.

--
Jerry Brown

A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)

On 29/10/22 20:34, Jerry Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:20:10 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On 27/10/22 14:12, Tony Nance wrote:
>>> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
>>>> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> So what are you reading?
>>>>> - Tony
>>>> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
>>> what to try next.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>
>> I must have read more but all I can recall at the moment is the two book
>> epic War and Peace, (nothing to do with the minor not so well known work
>> of Leo Tolstoy). I enjoyed them.
>> I would be interested to read Jerry Brown's rankings or suggestions.
>
> I'll have a think about it. I won't be able to do anything as detailed
> as, say, Lynne MacGuire's reviews

I hope not. I am not interested in how well bound a specific published
version is or a cover blurb readily available elsewhere.

- maybe a couple of lines
> summarising each plot and whether it's stood the test of time since I
> last read it.

Of most interest to me is a judgement of quality and a rough ranking of
which you enjoyed most. Thank you.

Tony Nance wrote:

>On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 2:01:54 AM UTC-4, Default User wrote:
>> Tony Nance wrote:
>>
>> >So what are you reading?
>> Some mystery series and SF anthologies. Next up in the latter
>>category is Made to Order, an original anthology of robot stories,
>>edited by Jonathan Strahan. I also have Station Eternity by Mur
>>Lafferty after that.
>>
>
>How's the Strahan? I've read a couple of anthologies he's edited and
>they went pretty well.

It was fine. The stories were a big more uneven than I experienced
going through the "Infinity" series.

Brian

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 10:28:05 AM UTC-4, Tony Nance wrote:
> So real life gets real busy, and you realize with some small alarm
> that you've hardly read any books, or even kept tabs on usenet,
> for the better part of two months.
>
> What do you do? You take aim at both deficiencies by reading
> Sagara's Cast in Shadow (very good, will read more!) and then
> hop on rasfw to ask:
>
> What are you reading now? I'm hoping to start Kurtz's "The Adept"
> later today, and I'm almost finished with Sheffield's collection
> "The Compleat McAndrew" (uneven, but the good stuff is really good).
>
> So what are you reading?
> - Tony

I haven't been reading a lot of SF/F since the pandemic starts. I've been reading a bunch of romances instead. I did recently reread Mairelon the Magician and Magician's Ward by Patricia Wrede. I'm also waiting for midnight (EDT) or more likely, tomorrow morning, when these books will drop:

Freya Marske, A Restless Truth
Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo
Megan Whalen Turner, Moira's Pen (collection)

And I have to decide which one to start first.

Melita

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 9:28:05 AM UTC-5, Tony Nance wrote:
> So real life gets real busy, and you realize with some small alarm
> that you've hardly read any books, or even kept tabs on usenet,
> for the better part of two months.
>
> What do you do? You take aim at both deficiencies by reading
> Sagara's Cast in Shadow (very good, will read more!) and then
> hop on rasfw to ask:
>
> What are you reading now? I'm hoping to start Kurtz's "The Adept"
> later today, and I'm almost finished with Sheffield's collection
> "The Compleat McAndrew" (uneven, but the good stuff is really good).
>
> So what are you reading?

I am reading The Hidden Girl and other Short Stories by Ken Liu. So far Maxwell's Demon is my favorite of the stories, but I have only read 4.

On 10/29/2022 2:34 AM, Jerry Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:20:10 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On 27/10/22 14:12, Tony Nance wrote:
>>> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
>>>> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> So what are you reading?
>>>>> - Tony
>>>> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
>>> what to try next.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>
>> I must have read more but all I can recall at the moment is the two book
>> epic War and Peace, (nothing to do with the minor not so well known work
>> of Leo Tolstoy). I enjoyed them.
>> I would be interested to read Jerry Brown's rankings or suggestions.
>
> I'll have a think about it. I won't be able to do anything as detailed
> as, say, Lynne MacGuire's reviews - maybe a couple of lines
> summarising each plot and whether it's stood the test of time since I
> last read it.

James has the detailed book reviews. Mine are the 40,000 foot level,
not much detail.

Thanks,
Lynn

On Saturday, 29 October 2022 at 23:26:58 UTC+1, Titus G wrote:
> On 29/10/22 20:34, Jerry Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:20:10 +1300, Titus G <no...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 27/10/22 14:12, Tony Nance wrote:
> >>> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
> >>>> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> <snip>
> >>>>> So what are you reading?
> >>>>> - Tony
> >>>> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
> >>> what to try next.
> >>>
> >>> Tony
> >>
> >> I must have read more but all I can recall at the moment is the two book
> >> epic War and Peace, (nothing to do with the minor not so well known work
> >> of Leo Tolstoy). I enjoyed them.
> >> I would be interested to read Jerry Brown's rankings or suggestions.
> >
> > I'll have a think about it. I won't be able to do anything as detailed
> > as, say, Lynne MacGuire's reviews
> I hope not. I am not interested in how well bound a specific published
> version is or a cover blurb readily available elsewhere.

That is rather rude. It's not irrelevant what the physical
condition of a book is; however, Lynne's taste in writing,
being chiefly about American society suddenly destroyed
by EMPs, may be especially affected by a publisher's attitude
of "let the buyer beware". Most of us simply expect that
a book is physically adequate. If the print choice makes
it hard to distinguish a q from a g, that's aqqravatinq enouqh
to be a question of quality.

If Lynne starts reviewing Star Trek books then I would prefer
for each review to separate and minimise any description
of who and what Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise are,*
and let us locate easily what Lynne has to say about this particular
book. But I don't think he's reproducing blurbs; his language is
without the excess of enthusiasm that a blurb typically contains.
* Of course, if this is the Mirror Universe or is about James Kirk
attending magic school as a child, that's a significant departure
from the standard recipe, and a prospective reader should be told.

> > - maybe a couple of lines
> > summarising each plot and whether it's stood the test of time since I
> > last read it.
> Of most interest to me is a judgement of quality and a rough ranking of
> which you enjoyed most. Thank you.

On 11/1/2022 4:43 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 October 2022 at 23:26:58 UTC+1, Titus G wrote:
>> On 29/10/22 20:34, Jerry Brown wrote:
>>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:20:10 +1300, Titus G <no...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 27/10/22 14:12, Tony Nance wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
>>>>>> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>> So what are you reading?
>>>>>>> - Tony
>>>>>> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
>>>>> what to try next.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tony
>>>>
>>>> I must have read more but all I can recall at the moment is the two book
>>>> epic War and Peace, (nothing to do with the minor not so well known work
>>>> of Leo Tolstoy). I enjoyed them.
>>>> I would be interested to read Jerry Brown's rankings or suggestions.
>>>
>>> I'll have a think about it. I won't be able to do anything as detailed
>>> as, say, Lynne MacGuire's reviews
>> I hope not. I am not interested in how well bound a specific published
>> version is or a cover blurb readily available elsewhere.
>
> That is rather rude. It's not irrelevant what the physical
> condition of a book is; however, Lynne's taste in writing,
> being chiefly about American society suddenly destroyed
> by EMPs, may be especially affected by a publisher's attitude
> of "let the buyer beware". Most of us simply expect that
> a book is physically adequate. If the print choice makes
> it hard to distinguish a q from a g, that's aqqravatinq enouqh
> to be a question of quality.
>
> If Lynne starts reviewing Star Trek books then I would prefer
> for each review to separate and minimise any description
> of who and what Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise are,*
> and let us locate easily what Lynne has to say about this particular
> book. But I don't think he's reproducing blurbs; his language is
> without the excess of enthusiasm that a blurb typically contains.
> * Of course, if this is the Mirror Universe or is about James Kirk
> attending magic school as a child, that's a significant departure
> from the standard recipe, and a prospective reader should be told.
>
>>> - maybe a couple of lines
>>> summarising each plot and whether it's stood the test of time since I
>>> last read it.
>> Of most interest to me is a judgement of quality and a rough ranking of
>> which you enjoyed most. Thank you.

One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of it
before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a very
pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I have never
heard of it before.

Lynn

On Tuesday, 1 November 2022 at 20:13:07 UTC, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
> published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of it
> before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a very
> pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I have never
> heard of it before.

By use but not by its roots, "diatribe" involves harsh words.
Maybe that isn't what you meant.

My copy of Terry Pratchett's _Raiding Steam_ is "Typeset in
12/14pt Minion by Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd.", which I didn't
want to know before today ("oast house" means a kiln for
drying hops or malt) and may deserve a diatribe but isn't one.

Ben Aaronovitch's _Foxglove Summer_ has one minor theme
of policeman Peter Grant's perplexity that apparently normal
places to eat outside metropolitan London all offer much more
information than he wants about how food becomes food and
what sort of a life it had before. So do you mean like that?

On 11/1/2022 5:49 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 November 2022 at 20:13:07 UTC, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
>> published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of it
>> before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a very
>> pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I have never
>> heard of it before.
>
> By use but not by its roots, "diatribe" involves harsh words.
> Maybe that isn't what you meant.
>
> My copy of Terry Pratchett's _Raiding Steam_ is "Typeset in
> 12/14pt Minion by Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd.", which I didn't
> want to know before today ("oast house" means a kiln for
> drying hops or malt) and may deserve a diatribe but isn't one.
>
> Ben Aaronovitch's _Foxglove Summer_ has one minor theme
> of policeman Peter Grant's perplexity that apparently normal
> places to eat outside metropolitan London all offer much more
> information than he wants about how food becomes food and
> what sort of a life it had before. So do you mean like that?

Uh, not harsh by any means. Lets try "long paragraph".

Thanks,
Lynn

On 02/11/2022 11:09, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 11/1/2022 5:49 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 1 November 2022 at 20:13:07 UTC, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
>>> published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of it
>>> before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a very
>>> pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I have never
>>> heard of it before.
>>
>> By use but not by its roots, "diatribe" involves harsh words.
>> Maybe that isn't what you meant.
>>
>> My copy of Terry Pratchett's _Raiding Steam_ is "Typeset in
>> 12/14pt Minion by Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd.", which I didn't
>> want to know before today ("oast house" means a kiln for
>> drying hops or malt) and may deserve a diatribe but isn't one.
>>
>> Ben Aaronovitch's _Foxglove Summer_ has one minor theme
>> of policeman Peter Grant's perplexity that apparently normal
>> places to eat outside metropolitan London all offer much more
>> information than he wants about how food becomes food and
>> what sort of a life it had before.  So do you mean like that?
>
> Uh, not harsh by any means.  Lets try "long paragraph".
>
Try, "screed".

Cheers,
Gary B-)

On 11/1/2022 9:39 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> On 02/11/2022 11:09, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 11/1/2022 5:49 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 1 November 2022 at 20:13:07 UTC, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
>>>> published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of it
>>>> before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a very
>>>> pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I have never
>>>> heard of it before.
>>>
>>> By use but not by its roots, "diatribe" involves harsh words.
>>> Maybe that isn't what you meant.
>>>
>>> My copy of Terry Pratchett's _Raiding Steam_ is "Typeset in
>>> 12/14pt Minion by Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd.", which I didn't
>>> want to know before today ("oast house" means a kiln for
>>> drying hops or malt) and may deserve a diatribe but isn't one.
>>>
>>> Ben Aaronovitch's _Foxglove Summer_ has one minor theme
>>> of policeman Peter Grant's perplexity that apparently normal
>>> places to eat outside metropolitan London all offer much more
>>> information than he wants about how food becomes food and
>>> what sort of a life it had before.  So do you mean like that?
>>
>> Uh, not harsh by any means.  Lets try "long paragraph".
>>
> Try, "screed".
>
>     Cheers,
>         Gary    B-)

Nope. I found the long paragraph about the font interesting.

Lynn

In article <tjrukf$rgc6$2@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 11/1/2022 4:43 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> On Saturday, 29 October 2022 at 23:26:58 UTC+1, Titus G wrote:
>>> On 29/10/22 20:34, Jerry Brown wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:20:10 +1300, Titus G <no...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 27/10/22 14:12, Tony Nance wrote:
>>>>>> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
>>>>>>> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>> So what are you reading?
>>>>>>>> - Tony
>>>>>>> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
>>>>>> what to try next.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tony
>>>>>
>>>>> I must have read more but all I can recall at the moment is the two book
>>>>> epic War and Peace, (nothing to do with the minor not so well known work
>>>>> of Leo Tolstoy). I enjoyed them.
>>>>> I would be interested to read Jerry Brown's rankings or suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> I'll have a think about it. I won't be able to do anything as detailed
>>>> as, say, Lynne MacGuire's reviews
>>> I hope not. I am not interested in how well bound a specific published
>>> version is or a cover blurb readily available elsewhere.
>>
>> That is rather rude. It's not irrelevant what the physical
>> condition of a book is; however, Lynne's taste in writing,
>> being chiefly about American society suddenly destroyed
>> by EMPs, may be especially affected by a publisher's attitude
>> of "let the buyer beware". Most of us simply expect that
>> a book is physically adequate. If the print choice makes
>> it hard to distinguish a q from a g, that's aqqravatinq enouqh
>> to be a question of quality.
>>
>> If Lynne starts reviewing Star Trek books then I would prefer
>> for each review to separate and minimise any description
>> of who and what Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise are,*
>> and let us locate easily what Lynne has to say about this particular
>> book. But I don't think he's reproducing blurbs; his language is
>> without the excess of enthusiasm that a blurb typically contains.
>> * Of course, if this is the Mirror Universe or is about James Kirk
>> attending magic school as a child, that's a significant departure
>> from the standard recipe, and a prospective reader should be told.
>>
>>>> - maybe a couple of lines
>>>> summarising each plot and whether it's stood the test of time since I
>>>> last read it.
>>> Of most interest to me is a judgement of quality and a rough ranking of
>>> which you enjoyed most. Thank you.
>
>One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
>published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of it
>before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a very
>pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I have never
>heard of it before.

(Hal Heydt)
Dorothy had quite a bit to say about the fonts used in _The
Interior Life_. None of it favorable.

In article <rKqHov.1sBF@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>
>(Hal Heydt)
>Dorothy had quite a bit to say about the fonts used in _The
>Interior Life_. None of it favorable.

My book club's next book!
--
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My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll

On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 19:02:16 UTC, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <tjrukf$rgc6$2...@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 11/1/2022 4:43 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> >> On Saturday, 29 October 2022 at 23:26:58 UTC+1, Titus G wrote:
> >>> On 29/10/22 20:34, Jerry Brown wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:20:10 +1300, Titus G <no...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 27/10/22 14:12, Tony Nance wrote:
> >>>>>> On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 7:25:10 AM UTC-4, Jerry Brown wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT), Tony Nance
> >>>>>>> <tonyn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> <snip>
> >>>>>>>> So what are you reading?
> >>>>>>>> - Tony
> >>>>>>> Reread of complete works of Bob Shaw. On "Vertigo" at the moment.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Interesting! I read and enjoyed Orbitsville but never figured out
> >>>>>> what to try next.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Tony
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I must have read more but all I can recall at the moment is the two book
> >>>>> epic War and Peace, (nothing to do with the minor not so well known work
> >>>>> of Leo Tolstoy). I enjoyed them.
> >>>>> I would be interested to read Jerry Brown's rankings or suggestions.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'll have a think about it. I won't be able to do anything as detailed
> >>>> as, say, Lynne MacGuire's reviews
> >>> I hope not. I am not interested in how well bound a specific published
> >>> version is or a cover blurb readily available elsewhere.
> >>
> >> That is rather rude. It's not irrelevant what the physical
> >> condition of a book is; however, Lynne's taste in writing,
> >> being chiefly about American society suddenly destroyed
> >> by EMPs, may be especially affected by a publisher's attitude
> >> of "let the buyer beware". Most of us simply expect that
> >> a book is physically adequate. If the print choice makes
> >> it hard to distinguish a q from a g, that's aqqravatinq enouqh
> >> to be a question of quality.
> >>
> >> If Lynne starts reviewing Star Trek books then I would prefer
> >> for each review to separate and minimise any description
> >> of who and what Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise are,*
> >> and let us locate easily what Lynne has to say about this particular
> >> book. But I don't think he's reproducing blurbs; his language is
> >> without the excess of enthusiasm that a blurb typically contains.
> >> * Of course, if this is the Mirror Universe or is about James Kirk
> >> attending magic school as a child, that's a significant departure
> >> from the standard recipe, and a prospective reader should be told.
> >>
> >>>> - maybe a couple of lines
> >>>> summarising each plot and whether it's stood the test of time since I
> >>>> last read it.
> >>> Of most interest to me is a judgement of quality and a rough ranking of
> >>> which you enjoyed most. Thank you.
> >
> >One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
> >published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of it
> >before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a very
> >pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I have never
> >heard of it before.
> (Hal Heydt)
> Dorothy had quite a bit to say about the fonts used in _The
> Interior Life_. None of it favorable.

Oh, if you thought she bugged /you/ abut that - :-)

On 11/2/2022 12:29 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 11/1/2022 9:39 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
>> On 02/11/2022 11:09, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 11/1/2022 5:49 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 1 November 2022 at 20:13:07 UTC, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>> One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
>>>>> published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of it
>>>>> before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a very
>>>>> pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I have never
>>>>> heard of it before.
>>>>
>>>> By use but not by its roots, "diatribe" involves harsh words.
>>>> Maybe that isn't what you meant.
>>>>
>>>> My copy of Terry Pratchett's _Raiding Steam_ is "Typeset in
>>>> 12/14pt Minion by Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd.", which I didn't
>>>> want to know before today ("oast house" means a kiln for
>>>> drying hops or malt) and may deserve a diatribe but isn't one.
>>>>
>>>> Ben Aaronovitch's _Foxglove Summer_ has one minor theme
>>>> of policeman Peter Grant's perplexity that apparently normal
>>>> places to eat outside metropolitan London all offer much more
>>>> information than he wants about how food becomes food and
>>>> what sort of a life it had before.  So do you mean like that?
>>>
>>> Uh, not harsh by any means.  Lets try "long paragraph".
>>>
>> Try, "screed".
>>
>>      Cheers,
>>          Gary    B-)
>
> Nope.  I found the long paragraph about the font interesting.
>
> Lynn

The font page in the back says:

"This book was set to Albertina, a typeface created by Dutch
calligrapher and designer Chris Brand (1921-98). Brand's original
drawings, based on calligraphic principles, were modified considerably
to conform to the technological limitations of typesetting in the early
1960s. The development of digital technology later allowed Frank E.
Blokland (b. 1959) of the Dutch Type Library to restore the typeface to
its creator's original intentions."

Lynn

In article <tjuf7j$1m3$1@reader2.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <rKqHov.1sBF@kithrup.com>,
>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>
>>(Hal Heydt)
>>Dorothy had quite a bit to say about the fonts used in _The
>>Interior Life_. None of it favorable.
>
>My book club's next book!

(Hal Heydt)
Dorothy would have been pleased to hear that. Let me know what
they think.

Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

>In article <tjrukf$rgc6$2@dont-email.me>,
>Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>>One of my recent books had a diatribe on the font that the book was
>>published with. I should have mentioned it as I had never heard of
>>it before. It may have been the "Project Hail Mary" book. It is a
>>very pretty font and easy on the eyes which I appreciate but, I
>>have never heard of it before.
>
>(Hal Heydt)
>Dorothy had quite a bit to say about the fonts used in _The
>Interior Life_. None of it favorable.

That's one of the advantages of e-books. ou can choose from whatever
fonts your reader supports.

Brian