Comments on: #155: Don’t Read Mass Market Paperbacks

By: Pamela Redmond Satran

Pamela Redmond Satran — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:19:14 +0000

Ha! Thanks for buying the book, Shirls. I hope you love it!

By: Shirls

Shirls — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:06:00 +0000

Have just “discovered” your blog via the lovely Gretchen of the Happiness Project. And have ordered your book from our local online store. I’d ask my kids to give it to me for my birthday but I don’t think they’d dare!

By: Pamela Redmond Satran

Pamela Redmond Satran — Sat, 07 May 2011 13:36:59 +0000

Ha! I knew that! Though “Left Early etc….” is more of a middle-aged title, don’t you think?

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 07 May 2011 13:24:44 +0000

Er, Pam? The admittedly wonderful book you reference is called “Started Early – Took My Dog.” After a poem. By Emily Dickinson. We read it in English class. Ask your younger son. = )

And, since I am NOT old, I have it in my Kindle. Nyah.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:10:37 +0000

We have very similar taste in books.

Mass paperbacks are also called “pocket books.”

By: paula

paula — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:43:59 +0000

Thanks for the tips and the suggestions for new reading material! I always wondered what “mass market” meant.

By: Barbara Baird

Barbara Baird — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:31:54 +0000

Once, and only once, I went to a writers’ guild in my town, and there I learned — from a romance writer guest — that the reason women pick up those mass market marvels is because it’s easy to disguise the book addiction when it’s mixed in with the grocery bill!

And another thing … all the female models or forms on the covers have at least DD cups.