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Do you know why it is that when you bring up a piece in the archives the text is pasted in there twice?

Posted by Greg | May 10, 2008 10:49 AM
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You know what, I would like to respectfully disagree about Sex and Bacon. It's a good book, an entertaining collection of essays with recipes thrown in for good measure.

Jesus, her life experiences are about as far from my life experiences as I can possibly imagine yet a lot of what she wrote about resonated with me.

Her quote about writers is priceless:
"I admit it: I'm vain. I'm pretty sure that most writers are, because if we weren't, we wouldn't detain you for three hundred pages, clutching your lapel and breathing whiskey fumes into your face as we insist upon telling you our Very Important Stories."

Or, about a whippet thin woman she worked with:
"When even a crack habit won't make you as thin as a Hollywood starlet or a fashion model, it's time to reevaluate the beauty standards that keep us literally starving ourselves to death."

And, her description about Saturday night hook-ups in Seattle with men in Dockers from the Eastside is spot on.

Plus, she ate whale in Iceland.

So, there, a brief review of her book for free because frankly, she deserves it.

Posted by PopTart | May 10, 2008 10:53 AM
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Dude, whatever about Sarah Katherine Lewis, you might not have liked the book; the international press thinks you're wrong. Jeeze, Publisher's Weekly even liked it.

In fact, the ONLY bad review I've see of it printed so far was in The Stranger. At least you gave her more then 2 sentences this time. 4 sentences is at least an improvement.

It was standing room only at the book signing tonight btw.

Posted by Whatever Dude | May 10, 2008 10:17 PM

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