I got one this month - Damage Control by Emma Forrest!


Damage Control

It is not right to hold nationalities to broad characteristics (the French are rude, Swedes are nymphos). That said, all bikini waxers are insane and all manicurists are judging you. You are quite right to think your body is appalling to the teenage girl applying your spray tan. It is.

At least to hear it from the darkly comic short stories and essays in Damage Control. In these pages, an eclectic selection of clever women — Jennifer Belle, Eve Ensler, Marian Keyes, Minnie Driver and Rose McGowan to name a few — write about the people that enable us professional, middle class, semi-affluents or spenders-above-means to live lives of such amazing procrastination. Think of all you could be doing instead of being tweezed, bleached, blown out, dyed, and manicured.

The modern woman would relish a book that delves into who these people are, what they mean to us, and what these often profoundly intimate sessions teach us about ourselves.


About the Author:

Emma Forrest is the author of Cherries in the Snow, Thin Skin, and Namedropper which was published when she was 21. A Londoner living in New York she has contributed to Vanity Fair, Interview, Harper's Bazaar, Radar, Blackbook, Index, British Vogue, British Esquire, Arena, Entertainment Weekly and had her own columns in The Guardian, The Independent and, starting out as a 16-year-old, The Times of London. Her first screenplay was bought by Brad Pitt, another, Human Touch, is in development, and she is currently adapting the book Novel With Cocaine with Elijah Wood attached to star. Her next novel, Kooks is due from Bloomsbury in 2007.

I'm reading The Serpent Bride right now...I've got The Chaos King on the way from Harper Teen.

Nothing as usual :angry: Oh well it's not like I dont have enough to read :thinking:

I haven't gotten jack from them in about 2 years. They don't like me!

They don't like me either. I haven't gotten anything since Aug. 2005.

That book really sounds good to me, Ri!

I've never been chosen for a First Look book and I've given up trying for the time being. :cry:

I got 2 this month :bananadance:

The Line Painter and When the World was Young

don't feel bad, it won't accept my password and when I have them email me my password - it's exactly what I'm entering.

That's OK though cause I am getting some good sick shit from Barb at Front Street to review. :bananadance: :bananadance:

I have not received anything from them in a while. I think a lot more people must be signing up. i remember we all used to get books pretty regularly and now it's nothing....