Comments on: Expatriation — Chapter 6

By: Michelle Glauser

Michelle Glauser — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:02:16 +0000

“Why, Dick, you are nothing but a big, foolish boy.”

I think Nell would do well to read Lori Gottlieb’s book, Marry Him!

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:25:33 +0000

So, it looks as if the whole gang is headed for a good spanking.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:30:57 +0000

Stand in line, Mommie Dearest. I get to give the first smack!

By: Mommie Dearest

Mommie Dearest — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:20:19 +0000

I don’t know which repels me more, the unquestioned racism or Nell’s stupidity. I know this was published in 1930, but viewing this through a more modern lens, she’s applying racism to her own immediate family, and even to herself. She flings it everywhere. Cannon makes her appear to be noble and purely unselfish, but I have this mild impulse to smack her. And the author/editor as well.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:43:01 +0000

Researcher, everybody needs an editor. When the author *IS* the editor …

And the chant rises across the land: “It’s only a historical artifact …”

Mark!

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:41:36 +0000

For a brief moment I thought that the writer had at last injected a little drama into the story:

if he’s not already sparking someone else

But then I rubbed my eyes and realized that he’d written “sparking” and not “spanking.”

By: Coffinberry

Coffinberry — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:40:08 +0000

I’m so glad Harry killed off Voldemort. Racial purity schemes should always be greeted with that kind of response.

It’s only a historical artifact, it’s only a historical artifact…

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:36:34 +0000

Was the author paid by the word??

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:56:20 +0000

I know!! It’s tedious, isn’t it? Even if her attitudes were legitimate, even if it really were necessary for her to deny herself marriage even with a man who knows her background and isn’t in the slightest bothered by it … couldn’t she please think for a minute about something else??? The school she is teaching, the book she is pretending to write, SOMEthing? But nooooo … it’s nothing but I can’t! I won’t! I hate my mother! My father should have hated my mother! Woe is me!

By: E. Wallace

E. Wallace — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:33:05 +0000

This series is exhausting. I know I’m being anachronistic, but she is torturing herself about nooothing and smearing her own parents for not making the same choice. Arrrghh!