antw. Re: w.a.s.t.e. recommendations

[Elainemmbell at aol.com]

J (cannontoawhisper), very nice rebuttal!  Reading, even if rarely 
participating in, a list of readers/writers is a perfectly reasonable way to 
develop a new syllabus for yourself.  Even though I joined the list 8 months 
ago as a strongly opinionated and widely/deeply read person, my experiences 
here have vastly increased my reading and my writing range.  I don't always 
like the choices or opinions of some of my cybercolleagues but the 
intellectual level is high, the humor generally witty, and the chance to grow 
through positive exposure to other thinkers is superior.  Every once in a 
while someone joins the list and reveals an unpleasant or poorly reasoned 
agenda.  You don't have to listen to that entity.  Every now and then even 
the brightest entities lose their tempers or become snippety--that, too, can 
be ignored.  Even invisible people have their off days.

I hope you enjoy our many suggestions and that you find among them some books 
that will inspire and delight you as I have many times now!  Whatever our 
individual or cumulative flaws may be, the P-list people are SERIOUS about 
books!

Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
(860) 523-9225
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