Saturday, August 10, 2013

Book 351 Long Island Oddities by John & Laura Leita


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After Shawn mentioned camp hero in Montauk I found a few books with little blurbs about it including this one. The couple who co-authored this book cover just about every oddity on Long Island imaginable from some of Long Island's crazy sites, to hauntings, to various legends. These co-authors were reputable and the writing was decent unlike the paranormal adventurers who were crazy kooks that made no sense at all when they wrote their book. This is the recommended book for mostly all crazy things related to Long Island!

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Book 350 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger


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Told in first person point of view this is the story of Andrea Sachs, a college graduate desperate to write for the New Yorker. Somehow she bungles her way through an interview landing a job as a junior editorial assistant to Miranda Priestly, editor of Runway Magazine. Soon Andrea is practically Miranda's slave, sacrificing much of her life to be at Miranda's beck and call. The story is based highly on personal values, how far will one person go to land their dream job? How far will someone go for comped designer duds? What do you sacrifice just to get somewhere faster and is it worth it? Also anyone reading it will realize their boss is probably a saint compared to the fictional Miranda Priestly. Overall the book was enjoyable and I'm awaiting the newly written sequel as soon as it's my turn to read a copy from the library.

Book 349 Angel of Music: Tales from The Phantom of the Opera by Carrie Hernandez

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You are now being redirected to my phantom of the opera blog to read the review about this phantom of the opera book!

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Book 348 Rest in Pieces by Bess Lovejoy


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At first glance this book seems to be on the creepy side but if you take the time to read it, it turns out to be a fascinating well read easy read. Each famous person's corpse gets about two or three pages of trivia to it detailing some of the person's life as well as what happened to their body after they died. I loved reading every minute of it and I annoyed Shawn with various pieces of trivia about dead celebrity bodies that I found to be interesting. I gave it to my mother-in-law and she loved it too! What I could have done without reading was the appendix at the end in which the author describes in full detail what happens to a corpse that's embalmed or cremated. Still worth the read an excellent piece of mildly creepy non fiction.