Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Lessons from "Julie & Julia"



I started reading the wonderful book Julie and Julia (good book and even better movie)a few days after I started the blog and came upon a nice bit of wisdom, which I'll share below.

"Today, when we blog about our weight-loss problems and out knitting and our opinion of the president's IQ level, we do it on the blithe assumption that someone gives a shit...Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and Internet acess can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be. But the surprise is that for every person who's got something to say, it seems there are at least a few people who are interested. Some of them aren't even related" (Julie and Julia, p.96).

I can't say I even expect anyone to read my blog, but here I am, my attempt at sounding my own barbaric yawp.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Real life scavenger hunt!

Check out this SF Chronicle story about the new book, "The Clock Without a Face."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/30/DDC31D64TU.DTL

Sounds pretty awesome to me!