She Treads Softly: Acer

Friday, July 24, 2009

Acer

I have a new little friend,

an Acer D150 Netbook

I have a feeling we are going to be very good friends. I'm saying goodbye to the big box computer. This little guy is great!

4 comments:

Lisa said...: I have an Acer netbook. I love it for travel and to take around the house. I still use my old bigger laptop when I'm sitting in my armchair though.; July 24, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said...: My husband thinks I'm ridiculous for wanting another laptop....Okay, I already have a big laptop...and a lovely smaller pink laptop...and an iPhone....but I am coveting one of the tiny laptops....; July 25, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Lori L said...: I Love it! I'm sticking with the little Acer netbook!; July 25, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Jane said...: Neat!!!; August 2, 2009 at 12:14 AM

John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.