http://sharleenjonsson.com/2010/01/11/bad-books-why-theyre-good/ writer, reader and blogger on all things literary Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sharleenjonsson.com/2010/01/11/bad-books-why-theyre-good/#comment-106 Are You in Love With Your Prose? Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:07:31 +0000 http://sharleenjonsson.com/2010/01/11/bad-books-why-theyre-good/#comment-106 [...] you don’t like in the writing of others, I know. It’s also a worthwhile endeavor. (Bad books: why they’re good.) After last night’s tiny insects, I spent this morning checking my own work for [...] [...] you don’t like in the writing of others, I know. It’s also a worthwhile endeavor. (Bad books: why they’re good.) After last night’s tiny insects, I spent this morning checking my own work for [...]

]]> http://sharleenjonsson.com/2010/01/11/bad-books-why-theyre-good/#comment-4 MaryAnn Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:32:59 +0000 http://sharleenjonsson.com/2010/01/11/bad-books-why-theyre-good/#comment-4 Reading too many bad books is dangerous! Once when I was sick in bed for a week, I got into MY mother-in-law's rather mildewed Harlequins, and when I got back to my computer the following week, my female protagonist started lusting after her boss's hands, "imagining those manly appendages running over her body..." :) Reading too many bad books is dangerous! Once
when I was sick in bed for a week, I got into MY mother-in-law’s rather
mildewed Harlequins, and when I got back to my computer the following week,
my female protagonist started lusting after her boss’s hands, “imagining
those manly appendages running over her body…”

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