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The backlash contiunes for The Jewel of Medina
You know, I had a feeling that after all the drama and hoopla it was going to end up being a mediocre book. I still plan on reading it, after all, that is one person's opinion and this person reads mainly Historical Romance. I wonder if someone with an interest in HF would have a different POV?
Either way I'm goona buy the book. If nothing else as a protest against bowing to the pressure from religious extremeists! Just for that I hope the author and the new publisher rake in the cash!
Either way I'm goona buy the book. If nothing else as a protest against bowing to the pressure from religious extremeists! Just for that I hope the author and the new publisher rake in the cash!
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. --Arnold Lobel
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. --Arnold Lobel
Personally I blame this all on the stupid dumbass professor. If she has kept her mouth shut instead of getting her knickers in a knot none of this would have been an issue. I doubt anyone would have known. But nooo she had an ax to grind and now this is happening.
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Yikes! That is just wrong on so many levels. It was probably done by someone living in England and taking advantages of everything a free democracy offers. What a piece of $%#@$! I hope the Muslim community will be as loud and vocal protesting this senseless act of violence as they were against the publication of this book. We shall see!
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. --Arnold Lobel
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. --Arnold Lobel
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There's a review of Jewel at Smart Bitches Trashy Books: D+...
For a full text:
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ ... rry-jones/
For a full text:
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ ... rry-jones/
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Agreed. And that is super impressive! I wonder if it wilsl contiune to climb
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If the professor truly had cared about the safety of the author, she wouldn't have gone to various listservs and raised an alarm about the book in the first place. She would have very quietly raised her concerns to the publisher. The whole thing smacked of academic territoriality to me (and being an academic, I can tell you it definitely exists), and now it's gotten out of control in a very dangerous way. Here's hoping for everyone's safety.
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For it is truly the discovery of a new hemisphere in a person's life when he falls seriously in love. -Vincent van Gogh