Yearly Archives: 2008

elements of style — wendy wasserstein

Frankie is a pedi­a­tri­cian in the Upper East Side of New York. Her clients are the high soci­ety of the city and through­out the book Frankie is the bind­ing fac­tor for all of the other char­ac­ters we get to meet. There is Judy the wannabe, Saman­tha the accom­plished and Barry the Hol­ly­wood movie-maker, amongst oth­ers. Per chap­ter we get to hear from them, about their strug­gles to get to the top or the tire­some task of stay­ing there. At some point their lives aren’t as real any­more as they all might have thought and that is when every­thing starts to crum­ble down. How do they cope when their soci­ety as they know it seize to exist.

this is a pre­view of ele­ments of style — wendy wasser­stein. read the full post (267 words & 1 image, esti­mated 1:04 mins read­ing time)
October 5, 2008 – 15:39 | By eb | Posted in chick-lit, general fiction, humor, recommendations | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

the suicide shop — jean teulé

this is a pre­view of the sui­cide shop — jean teulé. read the full post (234 words & 1 image, esti­mated 56 secs read­ing time)
October 2, 2008 – 15:55 | By eb | Posted in foreign, humor | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

i luv halloween — vol. 1, 2 & 3 — keith griffen (author) & benjamin roman (illustrator)

A totally dis­turb­ing, but hilar­i­ous story about a group of chil­dren going trick-or-treating with Halloween.

The leg­end goes that what sort of candy you get at the first house pre­dict what the loot will be for the rest of the night. And it so hap­pens Finch and his bud­dies get apples from the old lady who lives at the first house. Not a good omen and the granny will pay for this!

Be amazed about the plan the ter­ri­ble and ter­ri­fy­ing bunch comes up with and have fun read­ing how it acts out.

this is a pre­view of i luv hal­loween — vol. 1, 2 & 3 — keith grif­fen (author) & ben­jamin roman (illus­tra­tor). read the full post (131 words & 1 image, esti­mated 31 secs read­ing time)
August 26, 2008 – 12:47 | By eb | Posted in horror, humor, manga, recommendations | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

sorcerers & secretaries — vol. 1& 2 — amy kim ganter

Nicole Hayes has a tal­ent for day­dream­ing. She has a dream jour­nal in which she writes her fan­tas­tic story about a sor­cerer and his famil­iar. Mean­while in real life she stud­ies busi­ness at uni­ver­sity and has a job as sec­re­tary.
Josh, her for­mer neigh­bor, works at a book store and lis­tens to his room­mate for flirt and women’s advice. Some­thing he bet­ter can­not do. But on the other hand, he has a jar full of girl’s phone num­bers. The only thing is, he only has eyes for Nicole. A shame that this is not a mutual feel­ing. Unless…

this is a pre­view of sor­cer­ers & sec­re­taries — vol. 1& 2 — amy kim gan­ter. read the full post (118 words & 1 image, esti­mated 28 secs read­ing time)
August 11, 2008 – 15:25 | By eb | Posted in humor, manga, recommendations, romance | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)