{"id":20726,"date":"2017-06-16T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20726"},"modified":"2017-06-16T14:07:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:07:33","slug":"we-was-robbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20726","title":{"rendered":"We Was Robbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"trump_at_desk\"Seen on Twitter: “RT if you still haven’t said the words ‘President Trump’ aloud.” These lips haven’t, but I did type\u00a0them once, in a\u00a0January blog post<\/a>.\u00a0In my defense, I was quoting a Washington Post headline, and\u00a0I hope George Soros\u00a0won’t invalidate my intolerant liberal license.<\/p>\n

So now we have, or had, a liberal with a gun. Had to happen sooner or later. On Facebook, conservative family members\u00a0have been copying & pasting\u00a0rightwing jabs at\u00a0intolerant liberals ever since the election. I expect my newsfeed\u00a0to overflow with them now. I dunno, maybe they think they can bully the rest of us … the majority whose\u00a0votes were invalidated by the Electoral College\u00a0… into shutting up about the un-American travesty\u00a0of a wannabe dictator they\u00a0put in office, with help from\u00a0the Russians.<\/p>\n

Yikes. I’m not one to hold a grudge, but I’ve been angry since the 8th of November, and it’s not letting up. We was robbed, folks, and the bastards are a long way from being done with us.<\/p>\n

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Every now and then a writer or publisher will offer me a free book in exchange for a review. I don’t need any more physical books cluttering up the house, but\u00a0if the description sounds interesting, I’ll download\u00a0and review the ebook version. A friend of mine always scolds me for doing this without payment, but my reviews are in no way scholarly or researched, and I review every book I read anyway … it’s nice to get a freebie once in a while.<\/p>\n

So long as the freebie’s worth reading, that is. I’m pretty good at deciphering book jacket blurbs and knowing if something’s up my alley or not, but occasionally I’ll get stuck with a crappy book, poorly written or not at all what the publisher promised, a book\u00a0I have to plow through and write about because that’s my end of the deal. And if I write a terribly negative review, which I will because I won’t pull punches on bad books, I worry the freebie faucet will run dry. So far, though, that hasn’t happened.<\/p>\n

I hate it when vaguebloggers and vaguebookers don’t give you the deets, so here are links to two reviews I wrote in exchange for free books:<\/p>\n