[LMB] lumber rooms, post demographics, Robb

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

It occurs to me, we have lots of Brits here...  what is the image drawn 
forth in your mind when someone uses the term, "lumber room"?  It has 
dawned on me lately that it may not indicate a chamber stacked 
waist-high with pallets of two-by-fours, which is what the phrase 
suggests to an American mind.

Posts on TV actors: ~200 
Posts on _The Spirit Ring_: 5

Hm.

I dipped into _Naked in Death_ -- well-written, futuristic 
world-building acceptable, but way too dark for my current reading 
mood.  Has Nora Roberts written any titles that might be dubbed 
comedies, or is that outside her tonal range?

It is slowly dawning on me that what draws me to the romance genre isn't 
the romance, but the comedy (when intelligent), thin on the ground in 
all genres.  I have almost no taste or tolerance for unrelieved romantic 
melodrama.  In fact, it was the rare comic tale that first drew me to 
SF, back when, though I stuck around for the drama, too. 

Ta, L.