golfer – Thank you for explaining. that was the second post in a couple hours that seemed to be sarcastic digs at me so I was feeling very paranoid. I obviously put my foot in my mouth with that post and figured you were enjoying the comedy 🙂
I am a true book addict and would LOVE more threads about books but we have never had a thread that didn’t include sweeping comments about the quality of *all* Jewish books, as if the posters have read them all, and are so above them all as to speak so freely. Truly though, I am sure I was taught that bad mouthing jewish authors (as is the case with kosher restaurants) can be a very big problem of lashon horah (with or without motzei shem rah, depending on the author). It is for that reason that I either avoid book threads, avoid posting on them or just cringe til they disappear.
Wish I could hear more about the books you like . . .