Maintenance announcement and Used book buying

[matrixrefugee]

Okay, the spammers are getting really irritating. I've gotten multiple spam comments to this one dump of comment_fic entries, so I've had to enable the CAPTCHA on anonymous comments. I have non-friends who comment from other communities that I cross post from and sometimes the odd person from InsaneJournal, so I don't want to shut them out by disabling anon commenting completely.

In more pleasant news, had a father-daughter trip to the Used Book Superstore last night: I found a clever little novel entitled "Letters to a Heroine", based on the premise that Jane Austen is writing an advice column; also found Ovid's "The Art of Love", Marie de France's "Lais", an interesting-looking young adult novel entitled "Parsifal's Page" (based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parzival"), and most fascinating of all, Liza Dalby's "Geisha", based on the work of an American anthropologist who is the only non-Japanese woman ever to train as and become a geisha. I'd been looking for this one for years without much luck, thus as soon as I spotted it, I snatched it up.

Comments

Just do what I do,

[noizchild.livejournal.com]

Screen the comments first before releasing them.

Re: Just do what I do,

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

The problem is, I've been getting an inbox full of spam from Russian spammers lately, and it's getting depressing, thus I find it better to suss out the spam before it even hits the inbox

[northernwalker]

Is that Dear Jane Austen? I love that book! I found a copy at a thrift shop and snapped it up last year- too funny!

[tomboy-typist.livejournal.com]

Oooh, the Lais. I love those ^^ Particularly the --- damn, I know them in French. "Le lai du chene et du chevrefeuille." Oak and ivy? idk. XD