I’ve recently started using the “Never miss a thing online” Mention app. Just what I don’t need—right?—but being a Social Media Nerd, and terminally curious, I thought I’d give it a try. For starters I searched my name (of course), as well as mentions of Hortense and Napoleon.

It has turned up some surprising links.

This Turkish site, for one, on the theme of “the sorrowful wife.” In the book section, they display four titles:

Yep, there’s sorrowful Jo right beside a novel by Goethe. My smile for the day.

Do you belong to Book Movement? (If not, it’s free.) It’s great site for book clubs and readers generally. Last spring, M.J. Rose and I did a special for their newsletter on our books — her’s, The Collector of Dying Breaths, and mine, The Shadow Queen — which are remarkably similar in a number of ways. It’s online again: you can read it here.

As for Hortense, her step-father Napoleon completely overshadows her. As he does. She has not a single mention, yet he has 5571! Clearly, he is the master of the Tweetable quote.

• “The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”
• “The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.” (Yet his mind was far from quiet.)
•  “A leader is a dealer in hope.”