Ardeur- for free!

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Awhile ago- I have no idea when, and I'm too lazy to double-check- I entered in Smart Pop's comment raffle to win a copy of the essay book on the Anita Blake series. A feather could have knocked me down when I got the email saying I had WON!

The book came yesterday, but my husband is a dolt, so he didn't actually let me know I'd received anything until after I'd left for work last night. I came home this morning and almost immediately started reading, eager to see the good and the bad of this book. Also almost immediately, I was forced to fire up the laptop to seek moral support in my fellow mod, dwg.

So far, the book is pretty much what you would expect. Hamilton writes (read: copy/pastes from her blog) an intro to each of the essays, and each one is filled with her precious, self-indulgent wisdom. Wherever she can, she proclaims herself pretty or famous or a breaker of rules. She complains about her first marriage, talks about how she's better than most women because she's just like a man, and coos about her current husband.

( I'm four essays in, and this is what I think so far. )

I haven't read past this essay, but I will likely get to the rest of the book over time. There are only a total of fourteen