http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/eve-pell-airs-the-monogrammed-laundry-in-%e2%80%98we-used-to-own-the-bronx-memoirs-of-a-former-debutante%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/eve-pell-airs-the-monogrammed-laundry-in-%e2%80%98we-used-to-own-the-bronx-memoirs-of-a-former-debutante%e2%80%99/#comment-7776 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:06:48 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15779#comment-7776 Really? You see “Bronx Bombers” all the time now. One of the tabloids might have a headline writer who loved that phrase and used it over and over until it just seemed as though it had been around forever.

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/eve-pell-airs-the-monogrammed-laundry-in-%e2%80%98we-used-to-own-the-bronx-memoirs-of-a-former-debutante%e2%80%99/#comment-7775 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:48:14 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15779#comment-7775 That must be a generation thing. When I was a kid in Brooklyn, in the days of the Dodgers, the Yankees didn’t signify Bronx at all, they were more like ‘Wall Street’ – those pinstripes were no accident. In fact, I don’t remember the Bronx having a specific identity at all.

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/eve-pell-airs-the-monogrammed-laundry-in-%e2%80%98we-used-to-own-the-bronx-memoirs-of-a-former-debutante%e2%80%99/#comment-7769 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:40:46 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15779#comment-7769 In the age of the Internet, there’s another problem with putting the subject in the subtitle: The full subtitle may not show up when you do a search on Google or another engine. The problem is so common, as you say, that I rarely mention it on this site; if I did, I’d have to mention it every week. But the title of this one seemed particularly far off the mark because so many books about the Bronx Bombers have the Bronx in the title.

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/eve-pell-airs-the-monogrammed-laundry-in-%e2%80%98we-used-to-own-the-bronx-memoirs-of-a-former-debutante%e2%80%99/#comment-7768 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:07:06 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=15779#comment-7768 I started noticing a long time ago that nonfiction titles aimed at the ‘general reader’ rarely give an idea of the subject of the book – that’s always in the subtitles. That caused trouble when I was a reference librarian since I generally remembered _only_ the subtitles. And then, to balance that, there was a fad for giving novels titles that sound like textbooks. (I have “Elements of style” on my shelf right now – by Strunk? no, a novel by Wendy Wasserstein!)

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