Considering that your response was, shall we say, a bit "out of character" for you, in as much as you usually don't open talk about the need to stop "holding hands," perhaps my response was actually a bit understated compared to what I felt when I originally read it?



To be honest, I am now more concerned about you making yet another round of excuses. After all, there are several things that you have pretty much promised me that you would have done...over a year ago. I just had to place an order for a replacement for one book in particular, since I had given up hope that you would ever review it or that I would ever get it back. Sure, you have had things come up. So have I, things I still won't share with any. But I also learned that sometimes it's best to just admit to myself when I cannot do something and to not make promises that I cannot keep.

As for this being "public," like I said above, sometimes when someone wants to talk about "hand-holding" in such a tone, perhaps that person can deal with a public rebuke. But since the point behind the barb appears to be lost in the anger, I'll give free rein to it now and ask, publicly, when are you going to fulfill certain promises made?



I'm well aware of that. I'm also aware that you procrastinate more around here with each passing year and that my patience, little as it is, has become exhausted recently. As for the book club idea, I would imagine that moderators tend to do well when they actually moderate. If they can't do that, perhaps they should just step aside until they can do so?



And did you really do this?




Nice to see what comes out in anger. And by the way, a month's delay is quite ridiculous.