by Brandon
on August 12, 2010
in Books, Do Nothing But Read, Podcasts
On this volume we talk about sexy and angry stewardesses, demon hunters, and Love in Indonesia. Join Amanda and Brandon as they talk about two non-fiction books that sound so fantastic, it is hard to believe they are true, yet they are!
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Books in this Episode:
- Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- City of Bones (Mortal Instruments)
- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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This post was written by Brandon who has written 151 posts on The Modern Day Pirates.
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You two are awesome! And I did indeed say I felt Eat, Pray, Love was very self indulgent. I read the “eat” part and then skimmed through the rest. Elizabeth Gilbert does one good thing; she does help a woman she befriends in Bali buy property and build a house so I’ll give her props for that. I’ll probably see the movie just because I like Julia Roberts but I’m honestly wishing I had never requested the book through interlibrary loan (and that’s a hard thing for me to say!).
the book was just ok–self-indulgent sums it up. below is a link for a short talk she gave that had some interesting bits in it. i found it via molly wizenberg’s blog called “orangette”.
http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html