[bksvol-discuss] Re: easy validation
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:40:21 -0800 (PST)
I agree with Jana that literature seems to be the best
catagory (is there a separate fictin category, Jana?
If so I agree with you on that, too). Also humor if we
have one -- and if we don't, we should (smile). You
probably know that you can check more than one
category.
Cindy
--- Jana Jackson <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Tiffany! Hmm, other than literature and
> fiction, I'm not sure. Sounds
> like one of those books you'd have to read through
> to know for sure. <Smile>
> sounds like a good book, though!
>
> Jana
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tiffany H. Jessen
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 8:57 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] easy validation
>
>
> In rtf and already pre-validated, I have submitted
> The Garden Angel.
> I have already cleaned up all the obvious errors,
> with Kurzweil ranking it
> more than 99% spelled correctly.
> The only thing I couldn't figure out was, what
> category to check when I
> submitted it. Maybe the validater would have a
> better idea. Here is the book
> Jacket:
> "Cutter Johanson is plucky and eccentric,
> nostalgic about her family's
> once-glorious past. In her spare time, she gardens
> in the family cemetery
> and knits hair doilies. While writing obits for the
> local newspaper and
> waiting tables at the Pancake Palace, she is
> desperate to ward off potential
> buyers from her dilapidated ancestral homestead -
> and goes to extreme and
> often hilarious lengths to succeed. Though her
> neighborhood has changed,
> even grown shabby, the folks at Father Bob's Home
> for Retarded Men across
> the street have become a sort of extended family.
> Cutter's home is like
> another character, elegiac, full of secrets,
> providing her with a refuge
> from the modern world. That is, until Cutter's
> sister, Ginnie, pregnant with
> her married lover's child, brings trouble home." "
>
> Elizabeth Byers rarely ventures outside the brick
> ranch she shares with
> her husband, Daniel, a professor at Palmetto
> University. Agoraphobic and
> stricken with panic attacks, she fills her days
> gardening and writing her
> dissertation on Emily Dickinson. But one day, an
> anonymous call brings
> disturbing news that propels her into action.
> Elizabeth summons her courage
> to leave her house and drive into neighboring Sans
> Souci, and the
> disturbing, sad events that follow lead her to forge
> a friendship with
> Cutter, a stranger who reaches out to help." "Cutter
> is losing her house,
> and Elizabeth is losing her husband.
>
> Surrounded by offbeat characters, the women pull
> together to seek
> sanctuary, only to plunge into a string of
> misadventures that will
> irreparably disrupt their lives - and the lives of
> others. This novel
> captures life in a down-at-the-heels small town and
> celebrates the power of
> friendship."
>
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