Jennifer Griffin (1)

I question the validity of the entire book based solely on one entry for Ryker.

The author has an example of Ryker as "Captain Riker sat in the cockpit of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation". Any generic search engine search would show that the captain was Picard. It may be a nitpicky detail, but if this is way off base, I have to wonder about the rest of the examples in the book.

I liked the collection of the girl names, but the boy names were pretty lame overall.… (mere)

I like the way the name entries are written, but the book as a lot of strange omissions. There are some entries for spelling variations -- Katherine and Catherine, for example. But there's an entry for Claire and none for Clara. And Carrie, Caroline and Carolyn don't have their own entries; only Carol does. It's true that Clara is discussed in the entry for Claire, and Carrie et al are talked about in the entry for Carol, etc., but those are all very different names and deserve their own entries imho. Mildred is missing altogether for some reason. It may be a very old and no longer used much name, but it is a name, one with a longer history than, say, Dax, which has an entry in the boys section. Meh.… (mere)