BlueBerry Pick'n
11-13-2006, 11:48 PM
enjoy ([Only registered and activated users can see links]).
also appearing on the Huffington Post
(I have to say, I got a laugh about a recent CBC review of Ariana's book... it was pretty funny)
This Week ([Only registered and activated users can see links]): Heather Malik's Stand On Guard
Despite the fact that liberal-leaning Huffington Post is a fine political website with some wonderful bloggers, it is a sorry fact that Arianna Huffington's latest book, On Becoming Fearless in Love, Work and Life, is crap. It aims to stiffen the sinews of women facing a misogynist world. Instead, its relentless mindless jargon, pathetic testimonials of rich people having surges of bravery ("I was snubbed at the fundraiser by people I Hampton with"), its homilies and quotes from idiotic New Age bestsellers mixed with tributes to facial microdermabrasion give any sane reader a migraine and a deep-tissue shame for one's once-a-decade attempt to find worth in self-help books.
On the bright side, Zadie Smith's On Beauty ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), the satire on academia that won her the Orange Prize this year, is heaven on a platter. In the background, I ran the opening sequence of the Mary Tyler Moore show from YouTube. Now that gives a woman confidence.
also appearing on the Huffington Post
(I have to say, I got a laugh about a recent CBC review of Ariana's book... it was pretty funny)
This Week ([Only registered and activated users can see links]): Heather Malik's Stand On Guard
Despite the fact that liberal-leaning Huffington Post is a fine political website with some wonderful bloggers, it is a sorry fact that Arianna Huffington's latest book, On Becoming Fearless in Love, Work and Life, is crap. It aims to stiffen the sinews of women facing a misogynist world. Instead, its relentless mindless jargon, pathetic testimonials of rich people having surges of bravery ("I was snubbed at the fundraiser by people I Hampton with"), its homilies and quotes from idiotic New Age bestsellers mixed with tributes to facial microdermabrasion give any sane reader a migraine and a deep-tissue shame for one's once-a-decade attempt to find worth in self-help books.
On the bright side, Zadie Smith's On Beauty ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), the satire on academia that won her the Orange Prize this year, is heaven on a platter. In the background, I ran the opening sequence of the Mary Tyler Moore show from YouTube. Now that gives a woman confidence.