tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-25:121712 The Cat wanders over to Dreamwidth catecumen 2009-05-04T00:26:15Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-25:121712:1914 2009-05-04T00:26:15Z 2009-05-04T00:26:15Z public 0 <i>(Cross-posted to LJ and Dreamwidth)</i><br /><br />At my husband's suggestion, I have started reading Julia Spencer-Fleming's series of mystery novels, focusing on a woman Episcopal priest in a small town in the Adirondacks. I have bought the first five books and read the first two this weekend; I'll try to stretch out the remaining three over the course of a week or so. The author will be doing a book-signing in Johnstown on May 9.<br /><br />Although Clare is a bit too impulsive for me to believe completely (she has a certain Nancy-Drew recklessness about rushing ahead, alone, into obvious danger), I'm really enjoying the depiction of small-town life in this area. The author has the "feel" of this area just right. <br /><br />And, of course, there's a lot of Unresolved Sexual Tension to enjoy. :-)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=catecumen&ditemid=1914" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-25:121712:662 2009-04-26T13:21:09Z 2009-04-26T13:21:09Z public 0 One of the things I like about the design of Dreamwidth is the redesignation of what has been traditionally called "friending" at LJ and its clones, and the clarification of the difference between subscribing to someone on a reading list versus claiming that person as a personal friend. "Unsubscribing" doesn't sound as rejecting as "unfriending," either.<br /><br />As a recent article about following a celebrity on Twitter noted, following someone's public postings doesn't mean that you <i>know</i> them, although it can create an illusion that you do.<br /><br />I have subscribed to a number of writers/bloggers from fandom who have created journals here, and the majority of those are people I don't know IRL at all, and therefore can neither like nor dislike, trust or mistrust, value or fail to value as individual human beings, but whose posts I simply enjoy <i>reading.</i> Most of these will not be given access to whatever non-public posts I might make here in the future (haven't made any yet), nor will I expect access to their non-public posts either. I am hoping that Dreamwidth is going to be a sufficiently sophisticated and understanding environment that there won't be lots of drama happening as more and more people who join will do what I'm doing here, setting up a reading list of people who have interesting things to say that I would like to read, without claiming that they are somehow my personal friends just because I like to read what they write.<br /><br />Still, if anyone is offended that I subscribed to you, please do feel free to let me know. Thanks!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=catecumen&ditemid=662" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments