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February 14, 2012

Valentine Day Massacre

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I might confess, at the cost of being the least popular person around today. The whole honey-dipped, yet quite lucrative business revolving around Valentine Day with its million heart-shaped balloons, heart-shaped chocolates, red roses wrapped in silver and gold foil like chocolate as well, soft furry teddy-bears, red lingerie and wish cards, kind of irritates me. It might be that I am overwhelmed by all this love-dripping from every post on Facebook and each single Tweet, now that we are all so constantly connected and unable to escape the minute-by-minute evolutions of the love stories of another million fellow humans. It might be that I don't play well even into official and ritualized celebrations of festivities like Christmas or other holy ones, so imagine how much can I like the idea of having to celebrate love on this one and only particular day, together with the whole world, doing, giving, receiving the same consecrated symbols of love that the whole world had assumed as its own. Therefore, forgive me if I might sound cynic, but my favorite fb post on this Valentine Day, the one that really caught my attention was from a girl who wrote: "I think that the decision to establish red as the official color of love must have come around one particular February,  when all stores were still dealing with too many Christmas remains". Holy words. Said that, if you like Valentine, don't listen to any, be happy and enjoy chocolate and roses.

 

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  • In Reckless, I tell the stories of nine kick-ass women. I chose these nine among the many others I met because they touched my heart more than anybody else, for one reason or the other. Here is how they are described on the back cover by my reckless editor, Brooke Warner, whose enthusiasm for my project shaped it into a book published by Seal Press in October 2005:

    Reckless recounts the stories of nine women who made unconventional choices that sent their lives down determinably unique paths.

    Author Gloria Mattioni chose nine women, all of whom she spent time with at different periods over the course of more than a decade.

    The women include: Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived alone for 738 days atop an ancient 200-foot-tall redwood tree she named Luna;

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  • Daniele Bolelli: 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know: Religion

    Daniele Bolelli: 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know: Religion
    Fun. Witty. Informative and enlightening. Not just because my son wrote it :)

  • Don Winslow: Savages: A Novel

    Don Winslow: Savages: A Novel
    Raw. Cruel. Mind-bending. Innovative writing. Don Winslow at his best, so far. Leave you wishing for more, and then more. More punches in your stomach.

  • Thaddeus Russell: A Renegade History of the United States

    Thaddeus Russell: A Renegade History of the United States
    It is on the Los Angeles Times booklist for Christmas gifts, with a reason. Cool research and refreshing style by the renegade professor, who's a lot of fun in person too. Great way to discover new things while learning more about the history of the American nation. I loved it.

  • Kem Nunn: The Dogs of Winter

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    I loved Tapping The Source and I'm always down for a good surf noir. But this Kem Nunn's left me with a feeling of deprivation. Instead of giving you energy, like a good surfing session or The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow does, it sucks it out of you. Not what I'm looking for in a book, definitely. It gets better in the very last 30 pages, trying a desperate redemption of the main characters, but it's kind of too late. The damage remains. Unforgivable sin.

  • Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice

    Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice
    Halfway through the book, and I am once more amazed at the geniality of Pynchon, this time challenging the hard boiled stereotypes. Reading that is a memory exercise for the Sixty lingo and definitely brain storming about the usual big questions. I just wonder how the writer who never write real endings will manage to avoid ending a thriller!

  • Daniele Bolelli: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition

    Daniele Bolelli: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition
    I loved the first edition and I was even more impressed with the second. I am not saying this just because I am the mother of the author. I am a fan of the warrior that I've seen to walk his talk and remain on his very own path every day of his life. Martial arts were my passion long before they became my son's but I never forced him to embrace them. He did by his own choice and went much farther than I've ever been. Martial arts gave Daniele balance and taught him to be strong but graceful and generous in life. Daniele shares all he learned in this book with his typical humorous, knockout style.

  • Gloria Mattioni: Reckless

    Gloria Mattioni: Reckless
    Since I'm the author, I can't say anything about it. But I'd like you to do that. You can order it clicking on the Amazon link.

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