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Just had a chat with an author after she'd left her email address in her new book. Amazing woman. You'll never guess the book (blushing)...
"The Stripper's Guide to Making More Money" by Helena Lustig.
Okay, so it was an impulse buy (and I knew nothing about that whole world then). Anyway, I thought I'd recommend it.
http://www.lulu.com/helena_lustig

If anything, it's one hell of a funny read...

Why aren't we going green

Where are the books on climate change? I'd add a bunch of other topics to that "where are" question, but this is a good start.


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Collapsing Jared Diamond
Someone really has issues with Diamond's views of history.

He would like us to believe that the decline and fall of the Maya was a tragic loss, and a sadly overgrown sculpture in the jungle ornaments the cover of his book Collapse.
But I don’t care if the Maya civilization did collapse. I don’t think we should shed a single retrospective tear. It might be interesting to know how or why it fell—whether from war or drought or disease or soil exhaustion—but I don’t much care about that either. Because quite frankly, as civilizations go, the Mayan civilization in Mexico didn’t amount to much.

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A Truss fuss about manners

Deborah Solomon interviews Lynn Truss for an article in the NYTM. The real revelation here is that Michael Cunningham needs more fiber in his diet.


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Edited by author 11-22-2005 11:22 AM
Toe fungus book

Now there's a niche market.

Mr. Thomas decided against a nail-salon book tour, perhaps wisely. At Sassy Nails in downtown Savannah, June Dang was shown a copy of his toenail book while she was manicuring Tammy Woods's fingernails one morning.

"Would you read a whole book on toe fungus?" asked Ms. Dang.

"Probably not," Ms. Woods replied. "I'd only purchase it if it had other-parts-of-the-body funguses as well."

Wise girl.

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Edited by author 12-08-2005 03:34 PM
Shaken not stirred

Finally, we'll get to see the real inner workings of MI6. The SIS is letting Irish academic Keith Jeffery into the files:

In the latest in a series of moves to make it seem more accessible, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) -- the agency's official name -- selected Keith Jeffery, professor of British history at Queen's University Belfast, to write the book and granted him access to its archive.

"I feel like a child in a sweetie shop," Jeffery said on Wednesday, adding he believed he was the first outsider to be granted permission to look at the archive.

I went to a party once in Ottawa with my sister and she pointed out this couple she claimed were spies. They looked like jocks to me but that was the disguise, I guess. Spies as jocks. If I was a spy, I'd go as a frazzled mum. Hey,wait...

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King Kong roundup
The Globe's Martin Levin looks at the latest ape books.

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Edited by author 12-15-2005 12:09 PM
Sex sells

An uneducated, illiterate Kerala prostitute, who orally (sic) transmitted her story to a social activist has become a best selling author in India; Indian feminists are not best pleased but:

For her part, Jameela intends to continue with sex work as long as she stays healthy, saying she has had more freedom as a sex worker than she has ever had as a wife. "Looking back, I find life as a sex worker more enjoyable. As a wife one has to listen, to always be dominated by someone," Jameela said. "I like being a sex worker. Some become lawyers, doctors. It was my choice to become to a sex worker."

One has to listen. Oh god, how I know.

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