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HAPPY NEW YEAR GIVEAWAY: START OFF WITH "THE STARTER WIFE"

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THE STARTER WIFE BY GIGI LEVANGIE GRAZER ABOUT THE BOOK: I N HOLLYWOOD, THEY LIKE TO LOVE 'EM AND LEAVE 'EM. THE STARTER WIFE... A scathingly funny novel from a bestselling writer of Maneater! When her husband, Kenny, dumps her by cell phone (!) mere months before to their ten-year wedding anniversary, Gracie Pollock is dazed as well as confused. Though life as a mother of a semi-famous Hollywood studio senior manager mostly left her yawning, Gracie regularly believed she as well as Kenny were different from alternative Hollywood couples. She never thought she'd be a starter wife. But Kenny has upgraded, as well as with images of his new pop tartlet girlfriend everywhere Gracie turns, she seeks refuge at her most appropriate friend's Malibu mansion. Then a puzzling hunk saves her from drowning as well as unexpected drowning in her sorrows seems similar to a waste of time. And when she takes up with Kenny's boss, a single of Hollywood's better-kno...

On the trail of Hunter S Thompson in Puerto Rico

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Houses upon Recinto Sur Street in Old San Juan. Photograph: Massimo Borchi/ Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis There is something about Old San Juan which makes celebration rum during 11am seem a perfectly acceptable activity. Whether it is a lazy fan encircling overhead, a comfortable breeze primed with sea air or a background fuzz of Spanish songs upon a crackly radio, it all distils in to a undiluted atmosphere. So far, so Paul Kemp a protagonist from Hunter S Thompson's book The Rum Diary who spends most of his time in little cold as good as damp bodegas knocking behind a excellent fermented molasses a city has to offer.My bodega of choice wasn't as insalubrious as Kemp's (fictional) haunt a makeshift club called Al's Backyard yet it was normal sufficient to quell rumblings which San Juan is turning in to a bastardised chronicle of Miami. As we sat upon a sofa in Bodega Chic (+1 787 722 0124) upon Calle Cristo, a independent spirit of a 1950s as good as 1960s ...

Book Review Podcast

This week, Frank Bruni on his new book, "Born Round, the Secret History of a Full-time Eater, Sir Harold Evans on Alex S. Jones's new book, "Losing the News"; Motoko Rich has notes from the field and Jennifer Schuessler has best seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Popout Original audio source (21bookupdate.mp3)

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ARE YOU LISTENING? FRIDAYS! AUDIO BOOK: THE BRAVE-A GIVEAWAY

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WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S " ARE YOU LISTENING? DAY " I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS FRIDAY'S " ARE YOU LISTENING? DAY" AUDIO BOOK CHOICE IS..... THE BRAVE BY NICHOLAS EVANS ABOUT THE AUDIO BOOK: Tom Bedford is vital alone in the private wilds of Montana. Having distanced himself from his own troubled past, he frequency sees his ex-wife, as well as his son, Danny, is divided in Iraq as well as hasn't oral to him for years. Tom hasn't always been so private from society. As the boy, his mom was the duration rising star in the glitzy, enchanted universe of 1960s Hollywood. There, she fell in adore with the sexy Ray Montane, who played young Tom's bold onscreen hero, Red McGraw, the fastest draw around. Tommy as well as his mom lived in the glamorous, Hollywood chronicle of the Wild West. Everything was perfect, until the bullion flaking upon their enchanting hold up began to thinly slice away, revealing an uglier law beneath. Ray was not...

New Year honours: Antonia Fraser historian, novelist and now dame

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Lady Antonia Fraser becomes a single of 9 dames. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for a Guardian Lady Antonia Fraser, a historian, memoirist as well as novelist, becomes a single of 9 dames in a honours list. The widow of Harold Pinter as well as many not long ago a author of amemoir about their life together called Must You Go? receives a endowment for services to literature.Katharine Hamnett, a fashion designer, has discovered that her T-shirts with political slogans have been no bar to honours as she becomes a CBE. She once met Margaret Thatcher whilst wearing a slogan hostile US Pershing missiles as well as greeted Tony Blair in a shirt temperament a message No War, Blair Out, though whatever will she contend to a Queen?Artist Steve McQueen, best well known not long ago for his work with soldiers' family groups a pattern incorporating postage-stamp portraits temperament a cinema of 177 soldiers killed in action, that has been incited down by a Royal Mail as well as Richard W...

Book Review Podcast

This week, novelist Richard Russo talks about his new novel, "That Old Cape Magic"; Times reporter Patricia Cohen describes a new publishing controversy; Mary Jo Murphy tells us about the greatest tennis match ever played; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Popout Original audio source (14bookreview.mp3)

The Best of Copyblogger 2010

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Every year upon a 24th of December, we discuss it we were receiving a rest of a year off. And any year, we instead trip in a Best of Copyblogger post before New Years only in case we longed for something from a past year. Sneaky, huh? So here are a many appropriate Copyblogger articles from 2010, based upon your unrestrained via comments, links, retweets, as well as faulty propositions done to our writers for formulating exceptional calm (I listen to it happens hows which for a guest blogging incentive?). So lets see who got propitious this final year, in chronological order: How to Do 500 Times Better than AdSense Johnny kicked off a year revelation us how he worked months of 15-hour days in sequence to make $111 from his AdSense sites. And afterwards he did something else, which resulted in a commercial operation thats stronger than ever roughly a year later. And only to be clear theres no truth to a gossip which Johnny is still a meth dealer. SEO Copywriting: The Five Essential El...

BAFFLING BINGO MYSTERY BOOK DAY: GHOST MOON GIVEAWAY

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WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S " BAFFLING BINGO DAY " I'M EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS THURSDAY'S "BAFFLING BINGO DAY" MYSTERY BOOK CHOICE IS..... GHOST MOON BY HEATHER GRAHAM ABOUT THE BOOK: Reclusive collector Cutter Merlin is occasionally seen in Key Westlately, not during all. Officer Liam Beckett visits Merlin's extraordinary residence as well as discovers the lady in his study. In his genocide grip: the volume of mystic lore as well as the reliquary. His eyes have been wide with fright, his mouth the frightened rictus where spiders right away dwell. Kelsey Donovan earnings to the old residence to catalog her disloyal grandfather's pick up of artifacts as well as antiquities, vowing to see his treasures divested properly. But she cannot ignore the sense that she's being watched, the reports of malignant black figures, the pervasive smell of death. Is the Merlin residence haunted, even cursed? Liam knows well that some spoo...

Cookery books of the year

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Rene Redzepi's Noma is a book for a prepare who likes a project. Photograph: Ty Stange 2010 was an odd year for prepare books. Several we had energetically anticipated were disappointing, as well as those we had no expectations of surprised, delighted as well as even excited. One of my prime books of a year is a Moomins Cookbook. Beautifully designed, full of original Moomin illustrations as well as quotes as well as a little glorious recipes. It's an accessible key to Finnish food as well as a book that actually done a little young kids we know vehement about cooking. It's everything a inaccessible Noma Cookbook isn't. we desired it, though was additionally incredibly frustrated by it due to a specialist pack needed a meals have been close upon unfit to recreate during home. we know it's not unequivocally a point of this arrange of book, though looking during a photographs done me feel like a a child squashed up opposite a sweetshop window as well as unabl...

WHAT HAPPENED TO WEDNESDAY MEANS WINNERS DAY?

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WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S " WHAT HAPPENED TO WEDNESDAY MEANS WINNERS DAY? " FINALLY I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE WINNERS FROM THE PAST TWO WEEKS...SORRY TO BE LATE! THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED BY EMAIL AND HAVE UNTIL NOON, DECEMBER 31 , TO REPLY WITH THE INFORMATION OR A NEW WINNER WILL HAVE TO BE CHOSEN! ************************************ THANKS TO AMY AT CRAZY DOG T-SHIRTS , I HAVE THE FOLLOWING PRIZES FOR ONE LUCKY WINNER PER COMPANY: Winners can choose between reception the single of the following: Free Mystery Tee (they would need to mention their size (in Mens) as well as mailing residence (US only) Free $15 Gift Card (they would need to recover their email residence to us to embrace the formula via email) Winners cannot have won the shirt from us or have been sent the shirt for promotional purposes in the final 90 days or own the blog of their own. THE CRAZY DOG WINNER IS: #8 Bethie ******************************* NACHOMAMATEES T-SHIRT WINNER IS: ...

How to Set Goals That Make Sense: A Writers Perspective

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A guest post by Linda Formichelli of The Renegade Writer Twice a year, in December as great as June, we work upon my hold up plan: Its similar to a commercial operation plan, though it encompasses career/finances, health, relationships, as great as volunteering. Each territory includes a short mission statement, a bullet-point list of goals, a bullet-point list of obstacles to those goals, as great as a divide or two where we brainstorm ways around or by those obstacles. I dont check upon a hold up devise continually during a year just when we feel inspired. And when we go to it again after 6 months, we often find which we had internalized as great as met most of my goals though even trying. Except a income goals. For years, each 6 months Id write out an income goal, brainstorm ways to encounter which thought as great as do positively zero different in my career to try to earn which extra income. Eventually we smartened up, as great as realized two key things about environment goals:...