It felt more like the author showing off how clever she was for using the Devastating Secret than anything else
That's pretty much exactly the impression I came away with from the one Austin novel of hers that I read - that she's a frustrated wanna-be historian who needs intellectual validation badly enough to beg for it in inappropriate contexts. She should just go back and finish her degree, or whatever it is she didn't do. Maybe it would make her a better writer, or at least a less neurotic one.
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Date: 2010-10-03 01:03 pm (UTC)It felt more like the author showing off how clever she was for using the Devastating Secret than anything else
That's pretty much exactly the impression I came away with from the one Austin novel of hers that I read - that she's a frustrated wanna-be historian who needs intellectual validation badly enough to beg for it in inappropriate contexts. She should just go back and finish her degree, or whatever it is she didn't do. Maybe it would make her a better writer, or at least a less neurotic one.