Comments on: Reading & Watching for January

By: phill

phill — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:30:29 +0000

@Peggy G.: Thank you very much for the recommendation! If the style and quality is anything like her short story (which I’m sure it would be) I’ll definitely be picking it up this pay day! (:

By: Peggy G.

Peggy G. — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:22:51 +0000

Thought you might be interested in knowing that writer Liza Monroy, whose story “sparkled” in Sleepers Almanac per your review above, is the author of the novel MEXICAN HIGH (published by Random House, available on line/in book stores in hardcover and paperback).

MEXICAN HIGH is a coming of age story of the daughter of a U.S. Foreign Service officer assigned to the Embassy in Mexico City. Mila – short for “milagro” or “Miracle” – suddenly finds herself transported abruptly from Washington DC to Mexico City for her senior year of high school. The fast moving novel is an entertaining, incisive portrait of Mexico viewed through the eyes of a teenager living the joys and conflicts of the international school cliques, lifestyles of privileged wealthy youth, the contrasting local poverty and local political/social corruption – with sights, colors and sounds of Mexican culture.

I highly recommend the novel to you and your readers!

By: phill

phill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:58:31 +0000

@Mae: It was one of the many advantages of working at a bookshop! Would you believe the line wasn’t even out the door? Turns out the people of Cannington aren’t very well read (not a surprise in the least, to be honest).

@Jaime: It’s really great, I can’t recommend it enough. I think I picked my copy up at a Sydney airport bookshop, but a friend of mine found his copy at a Borders. Sleepers Publishing is really going great guns at the moment. (:

Heh, Avatar will long be remembered as ‘the film that made all the other films 3D’ :/

By: Jaime

Jaime — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:11:44 +0000

I’m eager to get my hands on a copy of ‘Things We Didn’t See Coming’. It was recommended to me by the man’s nephew (if I recall the recommending person’s relation to the author correctly).

Your assessment of Avatar sums up my feelings about the movie, too. :)

By: Mae

Mae — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:06:35 +0000

I can’t believe you met Jasper Fforde AND got your book signed by him!!! He’s one of my most favourite writers.