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Olivia Joules is a freelance journalist for the Sunday Times. Her editor has asked her to cover a fabulous Hollywood makeup line launch party. While there, she ends up catching the eye of the sexy Pierre Feramo, who may or may not be an Al-Qaeda terrorist. What follows is her adventures around the world. She…
Twilight is everything that I thought it would be and more. And what I thought was that it was horrendous. The language feeds into its young adult target audience. I went into reading it knowing it was trussed up LDS fanfiction, and it read like that. My opinion didn’t change when I finished it either.…
I’ve always sought out stories about families – by birth or by choice – over the years. The Chronicles of Narnia (paid link). The Baby-Sitters Club (paid link). The Fast and the Furious (paid link). I would even include Remember Me by Mary Higgins Clark. I’m talking about Shirley Jackson’s “Let Me Tell You: New…
I’ve been following Guillebeau off and on for a few years now. I bought the digital version of $100 Startup (paid link) when it was on sale. I decided to support him further, and get in on the ground floor by getting the ARC (advanced reader copy) of his latest book. I enjoyed the overall…
Excellent book. I like to think of it as a post-modern film noir set in Tokyo, around two sisters named Eri and Mari. The story follows how their lives connect to each other, an old friend, an abused Chinese prostitute and the keepers of a “love hotel” that found her that way, and the abuser…
American bookstore ninja/Darcy fangirl runs into Mr. Darcy in modern times on his turf. Hi-jinks ensue. It’s incredible the impact Jane Austen has had on literature and how many times writers have retold and redone her storylines over the years. I’m not a hopelessly obsessive fangirl, but I recognize her significance to literature and women’s…
I first heard about the story from a Baby-Sitter’s Club book. True story. I think it was from one of Stacey’s books. So when I saw it at my used bookstore, Twice Sold Tales, I snapped it up for cheap. Patricia Ann Bergen is a 12-year-old Jewish girl living in wartime Arkansas. I guess it…
This book chronicles the working escapades of Girl – unnamed because I am assuming the authors want us to know that she could be anybody, i.e., you and me. We follow her after graduation from college, subsisting in the Big Apple, and falling into the unemployed life predestined for us liberal arts geeks. We meet…
The book’s premise is if you could write a memoir in six words, what would yours be? “Nobody cared, then they did. Why?” Chuck Klosterman They were taking submissions from every writer: professional, non-professional, famous, and the not-so-famous. “We still don’t hear a single.” Adam Schlesinger As I was reading it, I laughed about how…
I finished “Mouse Tales” by David Koenig from my summer reading list last week. If you want to know about the dark side of paradise (i.e., Disneyland, which is paradise as far as I’m concerned), read it. I think there’s an updated version out now, but I liked what I read from the original. I…