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stranged from her father but i had to dig surely it wasn t simply because of her conviction that her dad betrayed her mum what really happened when she went searching for the teacher she had a crush on in the riot racked city who really was the assailant that drove a rift between chris and evangeline it s supposed to be literary fiction if i wanted intellectual stimulation i d have done a sudoku puzzle storywise it s pretty authentic the sounds emotions and atmosphere of those bygone times are captured very well in chris narration there are flashes of shakespearean melodrama and the famous british wit too bad his performance couldn t save this sad tale and the only ghosts in the book are probably in chris milnar s head all along should i feel cheated or not 1 comments labels book review books ghosts horror technorati tags book reviews book guide books read novels amazon com cookbooks children s books mystery books fiction books music books books on spirituality religion books medical text books books about alternative health women s issues business books self help new age historical novels history computer hardware and software fantasy health and fitness books romance novels biographies and memoirs art books fiction books political books books on current events home decorating books horror stories psychology books reference books sex and sexuality travel books true crime young adult non fiction young adult fiction tuesday the logic of life book review in the logic of life harford tackles prickly issues like prostitution gambling racism and crime he couldn t resist writing about them he says the ideas i was reading about in the latest journals discussing with the top economists and writing about in the financial times are so compelling that the decision made itself he says economics is sometimes called the study of scarce resources something harford believes to be a narrow definition but even that definition recognises that girlfriends and boyfriends are scarce nice neighbourhoods are scarce and positions high up the corporate ladder are scarce he says both the undercover economist and the logic of life focus on real practical problems people face every day but the undercover economist looks at commercial issues how shops cleverly set their prices to get us to pay more for example the logic of life looks instead at social issues such as marriage and divorce discrimination politics and what makes cities work well or struggle he says the challenge was deciding what to leave out because there was such insight coming out from the field and there are so many astonishing stories and larger than life characters it wasn t a challenge to write the book but a pleasure but in the end you can t include everything i left out a chapter about virtual worlds online it s a great subject but in the end i felt better leaving it out of the book he says his favourite chapter is the second chapter las vegas where he visits the desert entertainment city to observe its denizens i meet a poker professional called jesus who used economic theory to become world champion and an economist who advised john f kennedy how to avoid nuclear war the characters and the stories are amazing but my wife tells me that it s a boy chapter and that the chapters on love and on office politics are better he says the subject of politics was however more difficult to tackle the simplistic position that many economists take is that it is not rational to vote because you will not as an individual alter the result of an election but that is obviously naïve and not a good description of what people do he says harford realised that he had to be more sophisticated and realistic and discovered something powerful while writing about the subject it explains why we vote so much based on personalities rather than policies it also explains why some lobby groups have lots of influence while others equally rich do not he hints enticingly but can everything be explained by economics not really he admits candidly economics can tell us about issues but it does not tell us everything he says economics can tell us about how coffee is priced but not why coffee tastes good economics can tell us how we compete to get a husband or wife it does not tell us why we love our partner economics is everywhere but it is not everything he says a normal life harford has another radio series to do and he has signed a contract to write two more books despite all this he insists that his life has not changed much since the success of the undercover economist nothing important has changed he says my wife and i discussed the night before the undercover economist was published what if this book is a total failure and what if this book sells a million copies and we decided that nothing would really change either way harford still lives in the same two bedroom house for one i am very lucky that i get to write books for a living and do other interesting things make tv shows present a radio series travel the world but that is not the most important thing my home my family my job hasn t changed he says 0 comments labels book review economics educations financials technorati tags book reviews book guide books read novels amazon com cookbooks children s books mystery books fiction books music books books on spirituality religion books medical text books books about alternative health women s issues business books self help new age historical novels history computer hardware and software fantasy health and fitness books romance novels biographies and memoirs art books fiction books political books books on current events home decorating books horror stories psychology books reference books sex and sexuality travel books true crime young adult non fiction young adult fiction book smart book review book smart by jane mallison publisher mcgraw hill 336 pages isbn 978 0071482714 the thing about mass literacy is that it isn t just good enough to be able to read anymore kids books chick lit speculative fiction academic references dummies guides there are books for everyone and everyone s reading so for the aspiring elitist within each of us the important thing is to read well that s precisely what jane mallison s book smart helps you do it s basically a list of good books good enough to show a lit professor without facing condescending laughter book smart lists 120 books split into themed sets of 10 per month over the course of a year it s up to you to choose one or more of them to read each month to help you decide mallison gives a brief synopsis of each book along with some historical titbits mallison also gives her own opinions and her obvious enjoyment of literature is infectious reading her summaries is like listening to a kindly genius aunt who s so down to earth and engaging that she almost passes off as a hip older sister what s especially appealing is that apart from the classic read old very old english language titles she also includes translations of great non english works she s selected translations that are usually clear readable and quite unpretentious while still retaining a musicality hopefully true to the original languages but certainly compelling in their own right 0 comments labels adults book review educations technorati tags book reviews book guide books read novels amazon com cookbooks children s books mystery books fiction books music books books on spirituality religion books medical text books books about alternative health women s issues business books self help new age historical novels history computer hardware and software fantasy health and fitness books romance novels biographies and memoirs art books fiction books political books books on current events home decorating books horror stories psychology books reference books sex and sexuality travel books true crime young adult non fiction young adult fiction everyman s economist book review for those who are still suffering from nightmares about economics in school there is a cure and not only is it painless it is downright pleasurable when i was in school i was hopeless at economics you d have better luck making me solve a complex mathematics problem than getting me to read adam smith s wealth of nations accidental economist tim harford relishes challenging conventional wisdom photo by frank mo but tim harford s the undercover economist and his latest book the logic of life cured my phobia after all who wouldn t want to know answers to urgent questions like is divorce underrated or more importantly why is your boss overpaid apparently economics can be entertaining stuff economics is not just about the study of commercial transactions but about the way we make choices especially hard choices choices about voting crime alcohol or the response to racial discrimination london based harford explained via e mail the very busy author typed his response during his tenth flight in 10 days as he toured the united states the busy economist the undercover economist made economics a subject everyone can relate to not just stockbrokers and finance managers his reader friendly prose is full of fascinating case studies and characters and it s no wonder that the book has been translated into more than 25 languages and has sold above 600 000 copies worldwide besides being the author of a bestseller harford is the economics leader writer for britain s financial times and writes two columns for the paper the undercover economist and dear economist a problem page where he uses economics to find an answer to people s personal problems the strangest question he has ever received should i get a bikini wax plus he was a presenter for the bbc show trust me i m an economist and is in talks to do a second tv show and is currently presenting a bbc radio show called more or less but harford nearly didn t become an economist he tried philosophy but realised that he wasn t very good at it then he discovered that economics was far more enjoyable because economists will never accept the conventional wisdom despite his enthusiasm for the subject harford had low expectations for the undercover economist i didn t expect it to be published when it was published i told myself that if it sold 7 000 copies i would be happy in 2008 it is likely to pass 700 000 copies he says saying that he was amazed that the book became so popular life and economics on the heels of the success of undercover economist comes the logic of life a book he had wanted to write for several years whenever i came across a new idea research paper newspaper article anything that was relevant to the book i put it in a crate when the crate was full i got another crate when i was ready to write i started by digging my way through the crates to remember my thoughts and inspirations it was a very important part of the writing process he says 0 comments labels book authors book review technorati tags book reviews book guide books read novels amazon com cookbooks children s books mystery books fiction books music books books on spirituality religion books medical text books books about alternative health women s issues business books self help new age historical novels history computer hardware and software fantasy health and fitness books romance novels biographies and memoirs art books fiction books political books books on current events home decorating books horror stories psychology books reference books sex and sexuality travel books true crime young adult non fiction young adult fiction monday still going strong at 78 book review nancy drew s 78th birthday april 28 1930 that was the publication date of the secret of the old clock the first in the nancy drew mystery series by carolyn keene most readers know by now that keene is as much a work of fiction as the much loved girl sleuth the nancy drew books were the brainchild of edward stratemeyer founder of the stratemeyer syndicate a book packaging house that also produced popular series like the hardy boys the bobbsey twins and the dana girls published by grosset dunlap book packagers develop the concepts and plots of books often series and find writers for these books handles the editing and also the cosmetic side of producing a book like cover design and layout the book or series is sold to a publisher and the packager and the author s usually share the copyright of the work currently the most famous book packager in the business is alloy entertainment responsible for series like gossip girl the sisterhood of the traveling pants and the a list alloy by the way started life as 17th street productions in 1987 and produced the sweet valley high series but back to nancy drew and the stratemeyer syndicate i had only a sketchy idea of how the series was created and written until i happened upon girl sleuth nancy drew and the women who created her by melanie rehak this is a absorbing book for anyone who grew up admiring the girl detective and wishing that their lives were as thrilling as hers my third sister introduced me to nancy drew with the clue in the old stagecoach the copy we had was a hardback with a picture cover published in 1960 seven years before i was born by then the series had been revised a few times and the books as well as nancy herself undergone several makeovers her hairstyle and wardrobe continued to be updated every decade or so to suit new generations of readers the text of the books were also revised later books from volumes 35 to 56 were shorter than the first 34 with fewer descriptive passages the plots and characters less developed however in 1959 volumes one to 34 were also edited and shortened content was also changed for example in the secret of shadow ranch volume five published in 1931 nancy s friend george fayne explained that her parents did not think they would have a son and named her after her grandfather but in the clue in the old stagecoach george declares that her name is short for georgia accordingly her explanation about her name has been removed from current editions of stagecoach sadly i have never read any of the pre revision editions of the books twenty three of the 64 original nancy drew mystery series books were written by mildred wirt benson hired by the stratemeyer syndicate to flesh out plotlines devised by edward stratmeyer and later his daughter harriet walter karig and other writers wrote several books in the series while the rest were the work of harriet stratemeyer who when it was first revealed that carolyn keene did not exist claimed that she wrote all the books according to nancy drew experts there are distinct differences between benson s nancy and harriet stratmeyer s version in a 1999 salon com interview with benson who died in 2002 she said she harriet made her nancy into a traditional sort of a heroine more of a house type and in her day that is what i had specifically gotten away from she nancy was ahead of her time she was not typical she was what the girls were ready for and were aspir...