I am not sure why the comments RSS is messed up. I recently installed a plugin that syncronizes my entries feed with Feedburner but I left comments untouched. Are you using this feed? And I’ll look for and install comment preview tonight.

Update: Live Comment Preview plugin added.

Perhaps I should try to clarify what I was trying to say in terms of the blogger versus reviewer/critic perspective. As a critic writing for a newspaper (or even an internet news portal), you are somewhat restricted, firstly regarding word length, but more importantly in that you have to mostly follow a certain style. You usually start off with introducing the artist, or the work of art or perhaps an anecdote relating to the artist and his work. This is followed by a brief description of plot-lines and finally going into the critiquing business where you either find flaws or say how marvelous everything was. Except in the rare cases, such as a Kael or an Ebert, this style does not provide flexibility for the personal touch.

In case of bloggers otoh, it is almost always a personal perspective on news, incidents, books, films or whatever. As a long time reader of your blog, I and others are also familiar with that perspective. I guess that familiarity was what seemed to be missing in these reviews. I want to make it clear that I do not mean this in any negative connotation. It was just that as I was reading the reviews, it did not seem to have been written by you, the blogger I am familiar with, but by someone who is perhaps consciously trying to emulate a different style.

Don’t know if this makes much sense either, the whole feeling is too intangible to express in writing properly.

cheers,
BP.

PS - 1. Would it be possible to provide comment preview on the blog ?
2. Your comments RSS feed is providing the same headlines as the entry feed - is that a problem with my reader ?

M, the ads are the same from my previous blog; in fact there is less clutter here - no “I swear by..”, or “things I love…”

Asha also got a Grammy nomination in the Best Contemporary World Music category last year (?) for her recording with the Kronos Quartret: You’ve Stolen My Heart: Songs from R.D. Burman’s Bollywood. The album was featured prominently featured on NPR’s World Cafe, among other plases. Do listen to it if you get the chance.

Anyway, nice reviews (of the CD and the book earlier). But I would like to point out that you try to sound too critic-like (for the lack of a better word) in these posts. It is different from your freewheeling style of writing in the rest of the blog. IMHO, you should not try to wear a reviewer’s cap and instead write about these books or CDs from the blogger’s perspective. It would be a much more enjoyable read.

Cheers,
BongoPondit.