I may not be the Guru on grammar, (yet) and I may be shocking at spelling, (I do use spell-check though!) but I am not an idiot. STUPIDITY annoys me, ESPECIALLY from people who are doing something serious and want to be taken seriously. Thus, I just want to say a few things..



Discrete - No, I'm sorry, I think you mean DISCREET.
[Discrete = 1. Constituting a separate thing, 2. Consisting of unconnected distinct parts. "A government with three discrete divisions"]
[Discreet = 1. Marked by, exercising, or showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect, 2. Free from ostentation or pretension; modest. "She discreetly coughed into her napkin"]


Breath - Yes, this is a word, but it is SINGULAR, RETARDS!
[Breath = "He let out a breath"]
[Breathe = "He couldn't breathe"]

Drug - This is also a word, (hooray!) but is NOT, in ANY WAY related to the word 'drag' and you CANNOT say "she drug him across the room". There is a perfectly good word ALREADY INVENTED for that called 'dragged' or, 'dragging'. PLEASE cease and desist from this misuse!

Now, I realise that everyone who reads this journal is probably already aware of these facts, but it's been nagging, and bothering me for ages so I wanted to get it out of my system by making a LOUD statement about it all.


Other things:

Just to be unusual, I LIKED the latest Anita blake book, (Danse Macabre), quite a lot, actually. Anita-the-slut ness didn't bother me, in fact, I was relieved that she wasn't freaking out all the time again over having heaps of sex. The fact that the story of almost 500 pages consisted of two days and didn't have a 'plot' persay, didn't irritate me at all because I felt that although there were few 'events', the interaction and conflict between the characters was plenty for me. I WAY prefer that than what happened in Burnt Offerings with 'A GREAT BIG STACK OF STORY/PLOT' stuck into the last 10 mins of the book, leaving you feeling shocked and kinda confused as to why it happened at all.

I'm not sure why everyone said that its 'obviously' a run-up to the next book, I didn't really get that impression any more than the other books. The baby thing didn't feel like a total gimick to me, mostly because from previous books you could tell that it was something that Anita thought about from time to time. It wasn't perfect, but I did enjoy it. So there. Nyah.

Oh, and also, best line ever:

"I wasn't pregnant, yea! But while I thought I was pregnant, I has unprotected sex with Nathaniel, Jean Claude, Micah and Augustine ... I think I'll just start taping condoms to my body. Emergency sex comes up, you just rip a condom off and you're as safe as you're going to be." I laughed TWICE over that one.

I had other stuff to say but I think I'm going to go read Harry/Draco instead. Mwahahaha. Oh, and, disclAImer! Some of those definitions above were from dictonary.com. No one sue me, please.