One of those around te water cooler conversations...

[roseembolism]

So while in the kitchen at work, one of my coworkers noted that I had the new Diana Wynne Jones book, and asked me if I had read any others.  Bemused, I allowed that I had read pretty much everything she had written, and so after talking a bit about DWJ books, she mentioned that she was surprised to see I had read "Sorcery and Cecilia", since that was more in the genre of regency romances like say, those of Jane Austin.  

At that point I had to tell her I liked Jane Austen because of her snarkiness.  She laughed, saying she'd never heard of Jane Austin being called snarky.  Even though, well, Jane Austen really IS snarky, in a mannered way.

I like my work.  It has people who have DWJ novels on order.

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[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

That is so cool!

Tiny snark...

[seawasp]

... that's AusTEN.


Jane AusTIN is the (fictional) writer of American Western Romances, including Fence and Fencibility, Winchester Mansion, and Pride and Extreme Prejudice.

Re: Tiny snark...

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

...and I managed to misspell it twice, in two different ways. So I've gone back and made corrections.

And that really doesn't count as a snark, it's a correction. "When you say "snark," I could show you snarks, in comparison with which you'd call that effusive praise."