Comments on: sex first, then religion

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:54:06 +0000

Check the home page, Susan.

By: Susan in Las Vegas

Susan in Las Vegas — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:48:12 +0000

Er, we’ve hit Sex and Religion, can we go to Politics? Palin? (I *can’t* believe I’m saying this. I’m the most anti-political person in the world.)

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:34:08 +0000

I remember when I visited New Zealand and was so tickled to see Mt. Cook, and know that I’d grown up on Cook Inlet, and that they were named for the same guy. Thanks, June! If you like Cook, you should read Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz, who follows in Cook’s footsteps around the world. Funny, smart and it will make teachers weep with despair, as he reports that PC revisionism is running rampant across the south Pacific.

By: June

June — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:20:40 +0000

In reference to the religious post concerning the book, Play With Fire, [which we love]. The reaction by the minister mirrors that received by Author Ruth Parks after she wrote Harp of the South. She and her husband went to mass after the book was published and heard a thunderous and public denunciation of the book by the priest.
At the time, she was my mortified.
As an Australian, I particularly love all your references to one of my greatest heroes of all time, Captain James Cook.
He not only discovered two countries and wrote numerous accurate navigational maps of the ocean and observations of various cultures, which remain until this day. For these deeds, he was rewarded only a month leave from the British Royal Navy. I love your books and look forward to the newsletter. June

By: Kate Pavelle

Kate Pavelle — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:16:34 +0000

Hi everyone, my husband and I were discussing infidelity in the Bush (both Liam Campbell and Kate Shugak books). We have one of those exclusive relationships, and even though the idea of two people becoming chemically insane and swept by their passion is understandable, both of us find a LOT of bed-hopping in both Shugak and Campbell worlds. My question is, do Alaskans bed-hop more often than east-coasters due to personality, cultural acceptance, and long winters, or are the two of us really sheltered from the realities of life, or is this just a case of each plot boiling down to a conflict over either money, sex, or the prospect of public dishonor? Just wondering for the sake of intercultural antropology.

Best regards,

Kate P.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:00:37 +0000

You and me both. We already spend too much time figuring out ways to hate one another.

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:51:41 +0000

Another nod from NC… I love the book. And, having gone to a private Christian school in North Carolina, I can relate to the anti-organized religion feeling. Boy! Talk about warping a kid for life! I still won’t go to church or wear dresses.

By: Randy J. Cole

Randy J. Cole — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:56:01 +0000

Dana,

Very funny situation. Joes comment killed me.

Randy

By: Joe Burkholder

Joe Burkholder — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:49:29 +0000

Dana, I live in North Carolina, and if the folks here say that you’re going straight to hell for what you wrote in “Play With Fire”, you’d better bring a long book when you go, because you’re going to have a long wait in line behind a lot of those same folks.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:00:46 +0000

It is enormously flattering. And you know? If one of my little novels inspires someone to have a second thought, about anything, it’s just gravy for me.