Librarian rant
by lz in Weblog on 27Dec2006
Does she work at the library solely to humiliate patrons on their choice of books? My belief in the automated checkout system is strengthened after tonight's ordeal where the senorita mocked 2 out of my 3 book choices. Surprisingly, she left Kink alone-- which seems borderline erotica from the first...
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Adam Langer continues the story of Jill/Michelle/Muley/et al in this sequel to Crossing California. Once again, I am tormented by his wordiness, his insistence on relating dialog in paragraph form. But I am still dazzled by his ability to pack several great story lines into the 400 pages. Readable, but...
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Intuition
by lz in Reading Archive on 22Dec2006
Science experiments gone awry! Instead of a sci-fi book, this tale of dissected mice and cancer treatments is more of a love story. Cliff, the post-doctorate whose lack of success leads the lab to request him to discontinue his experiments, suddenly has a breakthrough with R7, which injected into tumor-laden...
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Purple Cow
by lz in Reading Archive on 08Dec2006
Ah fluffy fluffy. This book is probably only useful for those who haven't been actually DOING marketing over the last few years. Maybe. I like Godin's constant challenge to be different, to be unique, to be measurable; but there is nothing in the book that isn't obvious. Shake things up....
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You've heard of self-publishing services before. But you haven't seen anything like the quality of books that the good folks at Blurb.com produce. I recently joined the Blurb team, and during the interview process I familiarized myself with the books they had scattered throughout the offices. The aha! moment came...
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Why Moms Are Weird
by lz in Reading Archive on 02Dec2006
My admiration continues for Pamie's written contributions to the world. While this isn't the grandest, greatest story I've read this year, it was entirely enjoyable & readable. Least favorite part: quoting Good Will Hunting's scene of "every day I come by hoping not to find you". Lots of other good...
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Despite the intense wordiness, I got swept away by the story of these Chicagoans in the late 70s/early 80s. Langer has a great feel for characters, convincingly writing (among others!) the perspective of a conniving, overachieving 12 year old Jewish girl then seamlessly switching to the perspective of her 40ish...
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