"Novel Thoughts" from Dan's newsletter

Steamhead

regarding how heating is seldom portrayed properly in recent novels:



<a href="http://www.heatinghelp.com/article/191/Supply-House-Times-articles/2491/Novel-Thoughts-August-2012">http://www.heatinghelp.com/article/191/Supply-House-Times-articles/2491/Novel-Thoughts-August-2012</a>



I seem to remember someone who got it right. The first thread is from the previous version of The Wall, so the postings are scrambled:



<a href="http://www.heatinghelp.com/forum-thread/100812/novelist-needs-realistic-details-about-steam-boiler-problems">http://www.heatinghelp.com/forum-thread/100812/novelist-needs-realistic-details-about-steam-boiler-problems</a>



and the second:



<a href="http://www.heatinghelp.com/forum-thread/126738/A-book-recommendation-Dan-H">http://www.heatinghelp.com/forum-thread/126738/A-book-recommendation-Dan-H</a>



I must confess I haven't had a chance to read it yet :-(

DanHolohan

That's a wonderful book.

I corresponded with her a year or so after publication and it was well-received. I wish more authors would do what she did. 

JStar

...

Just like the use of shadows as a character in old film.



In "older" music, you get the same image. "The heat pipes cough."



I think once we traded the coal shovels for thermostats, we lost that whole part of our culture. Every time I'm in an old basement, I imagine myself as the dad from A Christmas Story, banging and rustling...a cloud of soot rising out of the vents.