Three Pines

Because reading has been iffy for the past couple of weeks, I turned to the television/streaming series Three Pines. It’s based on Louise Penny’s C.I. Armand Gamache novels, starring Alfred Molina, and was cancelled after just one eight-episode season that ended on a cliffhanger.

Beware: suicide, child abuse, matricide, alcoholism, racism, copaganda.

Locked out and other updates

Twitter has locked me out of my account, as of January 31; I cannot log in or even view it from the chromebook I used to be perma-logged in from.

It also offers no way to contact anyone to ask about getting the account unlocked, so it may well be it stays dormant and locked for a while, then it’s permanently nuked after whatever the new “you have to log in every however many days” period passes.

Persistence pays off (amazon reviews)

Almost four weeks ago, I blogged about my bafflement and annoyance over amazon’s esoteric and puritanical customer review policies.

It took some doing, but here’s an update.

What’s with amazon’s review censors?

I have been writing and posting book reviews for over fifteen years, first at Karen Scott’s blog, as a guest at other blogs (some long gone), on author message boards (also gone), at MyMedia.com (yes, gone too–I sense a pattern), then exclusively here.

I started crossposting NetGalley ARC reviews to amazon over half a dozen years ago, generally without an issue–until now.