Fun and comprehensive entertainment blog feat. movies, TV series, actors, movie-makers, music & books: 1980 - Present
Gary Vaynerchuk’s book “Crush It!” is relatively newer, from 2009.
I am reading and enjoying them both. I made my first podcast on these two books- I talk about why those books are relevant to blogging and my books section on this blog. Well, it is also to experiment to see if podcasting is really what it is cracked up to be.
Until I put a listening button on the blog, this is where the podcast will be:
http://pinartarhan.mypodcast.com/index.html
Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Pinar
I still haven’t finished typing my latest work of fiction so I feel guilty indulging in others’ work but hey, I am addicted to reading and let’s face it, computers aren’t 100% reliable. Meaning, my computer a.k.a office a.k.a dvd player crashed a couple of times. So I realized I had to stop worrying about my story and keep something fun around, just in case.
That’s how and why I stumbled into Lindsey Kelk’s I heart Hollywood. I like the escapist genre. It offers light but extremely fun entertainment. I hadn’t heard about Kelk before but I’m guessing you didn’t find it surprising that the title appealed to me. After all, 5 seconds into this blog and you already know I do in fact “heart” Hollywood. Moreover, the lead character is a writer/blogger sent to L.A to interview a British heartthrob of an actor. It is like my life combined with the ultimate fantasy.
This is the story in a nutshell:
Angela Clark is a young British woman working in New York. She is given the opportunity of a lifetime when she is given the assignment of interviewing a major star in Hollywood. Well, this is the opportunity of a lifetime but the conditions that got her the job are kind of dubious. And she has some reservations. She doesn’t want to leave her rocker boyfriend (what did I tell you about the story being my life+ fantasy?) on his own, for instance.
Angela Clark is the protagonist in the “I heart” .series. Apparently our girl first loved New York and will later love Paris.
I am now 60 pages into the book. Well, I could enjoy finishing it in a day but then what would I turn to when technology failed me? Will update the post after I finish it. Until then.
About the Author:
“You can’t afford the house of your dreams. That’s why it is the house of your dreams. You
either find a way of getting it (you’ll find the means) or be satisfied with dissatisfaction.”
Paul Arden, from Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite
Want to find more about the author and the book? You might want to check out the review on my writer’s blog, where this post moved to.
It feels weird to have so many resources on anyone, especially when it comes to our favorite actors and musicians. Did I sound ancient? Well I did grow up in the 90s where we had to hunt down magazines for posters and collect every bit of info we could collect on people through whose work we expressed ourselves. Now it is easy and fun to find everything on the web.
But the web still can’t beat the feel of a color magazine with quality paper. And a book is even better, because you can squeeze so much more info into it. One such vast information source on one of my favorite actors, Johnny Depp, is the book written by Denis Meikle. The book is called: Johnny Depp, A Kind of Illusion. I couldn’t have thought of a better title…
Now, this book is a tremendous source for any Depp fan. It has detailed info on Johnny’s background, how he got to be in all his projects, his relationships, photos both from his films and real life. It has excerpts from some of his characters’ or other characters’ lines from movies, appropriately chosen. There are some excerpts from scripts and lots and lots of quotes from Johnny himself.
It is also a priceless information haven for any movie nut, with backstage notes and more.
I can’t say I read all of the pages- the edition I have has 374 pages, excluding the appendixes. But I find myself lost in the interesting world of Depp whenever I pick it up and learn something new. Wanna know everything about Johnny, without getting the feel of a tabloid?
Then this is the book. You can check it out on Amazon.
Also on Johnny:
Benny and Joon starring Johnny Depp, Aidan Quinn, Mary Stuart Masterson and Julianne Moore
