I do a lot of reviewing and people often solicit my reviews. After reviewing a couple pf self published books I now turn those down out-of-hand because the standard, sadly, is generally so low as to be embarrassing, but if the book is from a legit hard copy publisher and if it's within my genre set, I'll take a look. If it's not I just tell the wrter so. And of course, I expect a free review copy!
I don't think he was offering me a copy and, if he was really asking for a review, he wasn't sufficiently direct about it. It was just weird, because I'm not much of anybody on Goodreads. There have got to be thousands of people out there who would be better choices to contact. Goodreads, like LJ, has a system by which you identify people as friends, so you can see the books they've been reading and read their reviews. I haven't been seeking friends there, just connecting to family and RL friends. Which is part of what makes me think that he's sending thousands of messages out to random people. Which strikes me as behavior that falls very much in the OCD category.
If the guy is in Britain, Pema, he would, I'm afraid, automatically call you Pam. Most Aussies would, too. Many names are automatically shortened in English-speaking countries outside the USA and Pamela is definitely one of them.
I don't know where he's from, but Pamela is one of those names that is more often shortened than not here, as well. Much more so than Elizabeth, although perhaps no more so than Christine. But, I'm one of those people who doesn't think strangers should be using my first name unless I've asked them to, or unless we're in some context (such as a con) where we've all got name badges. It's one of those pet peeve things and I try to be polite about it in person, but here I was blowing off a bit of steam.
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Date: 2008-08-15 03:36 am (UTC)I don't think he was offering me a copy and, if he was really asking for a review, he wasn't sufficiently direct about it. It was just weird, because I'm not much of anybody on Goodreads. There have got to be thousands of people out there who would be better choices to contact. Goodreads, like LJ, has a system by which you identify people as friends, so you can see the books they've been reading and read their reviews. I haven't been seeking friends there, just connecting to family and RL friends. Which is part of what makes me think that he's sending thousands of messages out to random people. Which strikes me as behavior that falls very much in the OCD category.
If the guy is in Britain, Pema, he would, I'm afraid, automatically call you Pam. Most Aussies would, too. Many names are automatically shortened in English-speaking countries outside the USA and Pamela is definitely one of them.
I don't know where he's from, but Pamela is one of those names that is more often shortened than not here, as well. Much more so than Elizabeth, although perhaps no more so than Christine. But, I'm one of those people who doesn't think strangers should be using my first name unless I've asked them to, or unless we're in some context (such as a con) where we've all got name badges. It's one of those pet peeve things and I try to be polite about it in person, but here I was blowing off a bit of steam.