In his weekly “On Language” column for The New York Times, William Safire takes a look at the language of the “blurbosphere” (“coined on the analogy of blogosphere“). For example, “For adventure novels, riveting is getting a rosy run, along with the hypnotic mesmerizing and the noun page turner. For novels in which characters determine the plot, San Francisco likes absorbing and satisfying, and New York pushes moving and masterly. Upbeat women’s books take triple adjectives, with an adverb rhythmically punching the third: ‘Funny, ferocious, intensely likable‘ and ‘Droll, shrewd, irresistibly entertaining‘ describe the same Random House novel.”