I’ve been following Guillebeau off and on for a few years now. I bought the digital version of $100 Startup 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 conversational tone…
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 own turf. Hi-jinks ensue. It’s amazing the impact Jane Austen has had on literature, how many times her storylines have been retold and redone even today. I’m not a hopelessly obsessive fangirl, but I do recognize her significance to literature and women’s…
I first heard about the story from a Babysitter’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…
In 2004, I was contacted to assist in the promotion of – as well as providing content for HPWizardry.com (now defunct). This was one of the articles I submitted for it. Jo Rowling answered a question about a valid obsession sweeping this world she created with some very sound advice at the most recent Edinburgh…
Originally published November 11, 2009 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 that is predestined…
Originally published August 26, 2008 Basically, the premise of the book is if you could write a memoir in six words, what would yours be? They were taking submissions from every writer: professional, non-professional, famous, and the not-so-famous. As I was reading it, I was laughing about how truly easy it was to sum your…
Originally published August 5, 2008 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…
