A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.
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James Patterson Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. [...]
L.A. Banks If Buffy the Vampire Slayer was African-American, and the show took place in east LA and New Orleans, and had a bit more Anne Rice in the vampires, you’d come up with something almost as cool as the world L.A. Banks created in her Vampire Huntress series, which begins with Minion. Damali Richards [...]
Clare Naylor Sometimes chick-lit can be completely engaging and entertaining. A perfect example of this is Catching Alice, the story of a young woman who loses her boyfriend and her job, and is dragged to LA for a life-makeover. While some of the situations stretch the envelope of plausability, the dialogue is good, and the [...]
Carrie Karasyov & Jill Kargman I picked this up as an impulse buy because I’d seen a blurb about it in some magazine that compared it to The Nanny Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada both of which I enjoyed for the guilty pleasure froth they are. Alas, this book is nothing like either of [...]
