About (We Call Her Git)

Once upon a time, two people who loved books had a daughter. They read to her from her earliest moments, and she went into little childish ecstasies the very first time they took her into a book store. Now that daughter is technically an adult (but still childish) and making plans to write books of her own someday. In the meantime, she’s doing a lot of reading.

Preferred Genres: Fantasy, gratuitous romance, historical.

Favorite Elements in a Good Book: A bit of everything (sap, humor, suspense), pirates, snarky characters, magic use, powerful women, manly men who are not macho jerks, satire.

For more of this Git creature, try http://www.thewordofgit.com

What Gives Her The Right To Criticize Books, Anyway?

As mentioned above, I’ve been reading all my life. And, I write.  In fact, I’m doing my undergrad in creative writing, and I’m slowly building up publishing credits. (Very small ones, but, hey.) I am working toward becoming a novelist, and doing this by taking writing workshops and studying literature. So, I’m not unfamiliar with the Writing Game and its rules.

More importantly, though, I am a reader. Published books are an end-product, and should be recieved as such. Not a draft, not a manuscript, a finished product. They should be as near perfect as they’re going to get. I’m going to treat them as such. That makes me the consumer, and I expect a certain level of quality in what I consume.

Guest Reviewers

Every so often, I’ll get a guest reviewer to pitch in. I like getting other people to commit their reactions to paper, especially about books I’ve also read. They’ll mostly be friends and family. If you have a unique, well-written counter-review, I’d love you to squeak up.

Sreya is my best friend from 9th grade, and my writing buddy. She has read everything in the universe, ever. Seriously. I pass along my awful romance novels and she feeds me the gems of her book devouring.

My Mom is a a professional in online learning. She is incredibly smart and knows what she likes. We have a decent overlap of interests, but she does prefer mysteries.

My Dad is an IT guy. He does some kind of programming thing. (It’s a curse of my generation that all we know about what our dads do is that it’s something to do with computers.) He’s more into sci fi and satire, and has been blasting through the Discworld books like it’s nobody’s business.