Word Confusion: Quack versus Quake
You’ll probably quake with fear in a quake. You might even quack about it in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Author: Kathy Davie
Book Review: Lynn Kurland’s A Dance Through Time
A park bench unexpectedly took Elizabeth Smith, a starving writer, into her dreams of romance, into 1311 Scotland where she would turn Jamie MacLeod’s ordered world upside-down.
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
Two corpses at two different house showings — and all that math! — discourages Aurora “Roe” Teagarden about becoming a real estate agent. It’s obvious that there is a very cool killer at large in Lawrenceton, one who knows a great deal about real estate — and maybe too much about Roe.
Word Confusion: Convert versus Covert
I sometimes need to be covert about converting flour, sugar, and chocolate chips into cookies in my house in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Book Review: Kristen Painter’s Miss Frost Chills the Cheater
Someone is making Sinclair out to be the bad guy what with the sabotage and his being a necromancer. The question is, can Jayne, Winter elf, Jack Frost’s daughter, Santa Claus’s niece, heir to the Winter Throne and now . . . private investigator, chill the rumors that threaten the royal family and keep Sinclair from being permanently iced?
Word Confusion: Lain versus Lane
Lain is a past participle meaning to lie prone while a lane is a narrow bit of road in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Book Review: Larissa Ione’s Bond of Passion
He was an assassin. She was his lover. And his victim.
Now, years later, she’s back from the dead and looking for vengeance.
Book Review: Nalini Singh’s Archangel’s Resurrection
A legendary love story driven by the primary energy of two archangels in a cycle of love and heartbreak, one that ends when Zanaya chooses to Sleep. Both woken in the Cascade, this is the last beat of their passionate, angry dance. The final song for Alexander and his Zani.
Word Confusion: Dud versus Dude
Revised as of7 Jan 2023 I always read the reviews on Amazon, as they’re real-world experiences. And I don’t allow all the spelling and grammatical errors to influence me. But I do want to fix ’em!! There was one that particularly caught my attention when the reviewer was talking about what a dude the product was. I concluded he meant dud. Now, a dud is a faulty object or person. A dude is primarily a guy, who may dress up carefully. Dude may also be an exclamation . . . about a guy. Think about it, if your character were a guy would you want him to be perceived as a dud or a dude? Word Confusions . . . . . . started as my way of dealing with a professional frustration with properly spelled words that were out of context in manuscripts I was editing as well as books I was reviewing. It evolved into a sharing of information with y’all. I’m hoping you’ll share with us words that have been a bête noire for you from either end. If you found this post on “Dud versus Dude” interesting, subscribe to KD Did It, if you’d like to […]
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ A Bone to Pick
After attending three weddings in less than a year, including her ex-boyfriend’s, Aurora Teagarden feels stuck in a rut. Then Jane Engle, an elderly member of the recently disbanded Real Murders club, dies and unexpectedly leaves her house and considerable estate to Roe But Roe soon realizes that her inheritance includes a tangled mystery in need of unravelling.