Comments on: Cynicism And The Cranky Old Man https://booksquare.com/cynicism-and-the-cranky-old-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=cynicism-and-the-cranky-old-man Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Booksquare https://booksquare.com/cynicism-and-the-cranky-old-man/#comment-138818 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:35:00 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/10/2085/#comment-138818 Ah, Brenda, perhaps I should define “cute” — it means “someone I can make fun of without breaking a sweat”. You won’t find that specific definition in the dictionary. I’ve created my own.

Damn — six more weeks of summer? I’m not sure I can take it. I’m verging very close to having a tan. I don’t tan.

]]> By: David Thayer https://booksquare.com/cynicism-and-the-cranky-old-man/#comment-138793 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:47:31 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/10/2085/#comment-138793 It’s August. The pennant races are heating up in a baseball sort of way, not really heated, not like tennis or anything, but heated. The swallows return to Capistrano and Otto emerges, says the same thing. That means we have six more weeks of summer.

]]> By: Brenda Coulter https://booksquare.com/cynicism-and-the-cranky-old-man/#comment-138761 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:33:19 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/10/2085/#comment-138761 I don’t believe Mr. Penzler’s brand of “crochety” is remotely endearing. (I still haven’t gotten over his insistence that women write fluff and men write “serious” literature.) Maybe somebody should explain to the old coot that the term “chick lit” wasn’t coined and popularized by literati bent on ridiculing the genre, but by the publishers and authors and fans of the books. I don’t enjoy chick lit, but even I know the term is an affectionate one. Sheesh.

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