Welcome! Since you’re a friend of Shell’s, you must be good-looking, smart and have excellent taste in chocolate. I hope you do get all up in my archives.

I’d bet most of the people who use “pitch-perfect” to describe an acting performance wouldn’t know a middle C if they heard it. And I think “triumph of the human spirit” is a euphemism for “I have no idea what to say but this sounds blurb-ready and vaguely uplifting.”

Brett—Haha! Lucky I like you and will still read The Cleaner. But see that it doesn’t happen again.

Diann—I can hear that line in my head and just got annoyed.

READER#9—That doesn’t really bug me but it comes close to another phrase that does: “If you only see/read one thing this year…” I want to say, “You’re wasting your breath because that person’s a hermit!”

Poncho—I envy the fact you live in a place where “unputdownable” doesn’t exist. Yet.

EIREGO—Let me think about that one…nope, doesn’t annoy me much. But it doesn’t really make sense. If a movie’s 90 minutes, I’ve just experienced the equivalent of 90 thrill rides by the time I leave the theater. That’s too much.

le0pard13—Don’t get me started on words like that! We’ll be here all year. My teeth hurt every time I hear “I could care less.”

Shell—Your teasing remark at lp13 is a gem!

Anyway. I don’t read reviews often -at least not ‘professional’ ones-, since I rather hear/read whatever people whose opinion I value think about something.