public service announcement

I wish to be on the record as not approving of this current thing LJ has done where you can crosspost comments, even on locked posts, to Facebook and Twitter. One reason (of several) that I don't have a Facebook is the privacy concerns. I'm not going to switch all locked content to Dreamwidth, because there are people who aren't moving whom I would like to be able to see my locked content, but it is a tempting idea. (I know, I know, don't post anything I wouldn't like in the newspaper. My concern is more that I have spent the last several years actively ducking having to have any dealings with Facebook and I don't like having to interact with them in any manner, even passive, thank you.)

I suspect I don't need to say this to anyone who would be seeing my locked content, but please don't repost any comments you might make to locked posts in this journal; that is a thing for which I would ban a person, if it happened not-by-accident (I don't like the placement of that button either).

Night of Masks, Andre Norton (365 Books, Day 4)

I felt like reading some Andre Norton, and my collection of crumbling old paperbacks is still in boxes in the portico. Fortunately, the public library-- as any good library should-- has a collection of crumbling old Norton paperbacks that almost completely does not overlap with mine.

One good thing about how sheerly prolific Norton was is that I know I'm never going to read them all. There's always another handful of titles I haven't seen at each new used bookstore. Of course, this is also an annoying thing, because I know I'm probably missing some of her best, and on occasion I discover that I haven't even read all of a series. I had no notion of the existence of one of the Krip and Maelen books until last year, even though I'd read the books before and after it.

( Andre Norton is, of course, the literature of my childhood. )

Night of Masks, Andre Norton (365 Books, Day 4)

I felt like reading some Andre Norton, and my collection of crumbling old paperbacks is still in boxes in the portico. Fortunately, the public library-- as any good library should-- has a collection of crumbling old Norton paperbacks that almost completely does not overlap with mine.

One good thing about how sheerly prolific Norton was is that I know I'm never going to read them all. There's always another handful of titles I haven't seen at each new used bookstore. Of course, this is also an annoying thing, because I know I'm probably missing some of her best, and on occasion I discover that I haven't even read all of a series. I had no notion of the existence of one of the Krip and Maelen books until last year, even though I'd read the books before and after it.

( Andre Norton is, of course, the literature of my childhood. )

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