The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, August 31, 2018

Karin Slaughter

She writes excellent page turners, but she sometimes uses the wrong word and often gets the case of her pronouns wrong.

And she misses pretty much every time on counterfactual conditionals.

Can't just shrug this off, as these days even so many English teachers do, though it's true English has a lot of textbook grammar rules that can be violated right and left without the slightest actual loss of meaning or communicative efficacy.

Can't let the terrorists win.

Update. 

Reading Fallen, I see she's never figured out that hypoglycemia is low blood sugar, not high.

Update. 

Considering her main characters, I wonder whether she had a particularly tortured childhood. 

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