Archive for the ‘Great Books’ Category
September 6, 2008
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June 27, 2008
If you loved ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ or you’re a fan of Linda LaPlante or Jilly Cooper or you’re 
the kind of gal who likes to kick back on a Saturday afternoon with a pre-dinner Long Island Iced Tea (or is that just me?) and a stack of trashy mags then this is the book for you!
Guilty Pleasures by Tasmina Perry is set in the fashion world between London, Paris and New York (is there a better combination) and is the story of a family whose members will stop at nothing to get their hands on the family fortune. The Daily Mirror in the UK cheekily described Guilty Pleasures as a ‘Bonkbuster’ and I have to agree - it’s peppered with titillating scenes that seem completely plausible and appropriate, considering the characters and setting.
Underneath it’s external layer of glamour, fashion, sex and Machiavellian plotting - Guilty Pleasures has well developed characters that although their lifestyles are incomprehensible, their more human characteristics make you care about their fate. I even found myself cheering for Cassandra, the tough but flawed fashion magazine editor who believes with her style and connections, she’s the rightful heir to the family Luxury Goods business - rather than her ‘off the rack’ Management Consultant cousin Emma.
Guilty Pleasures is a fun, easy read that’s perfect for your next weekend away, international flight or a week of escapism on the train while you commute. Wherever you read it though, just remember if there’s people near by - they may be wondering what you’re grinning about. Guilty Pleasures by Tasmina Perry is the most appropriately named book this year.
Available from all good bookstores from July 1st.
Guilty Pleasures by Tasmina Perry RRP $32.99 is published by HarperCollins Publishers
June 2, 2008
Gorgeously Green by Sophie Uliano is Out Now!
Published by Harper Collins RRP $26.95
Sustainable, Green, Conscious & Gorgeous - Sophie’s new book Gorgeously Green will show you how to live the green life without having to sacrifice style.
Gorgeously Green covers everything from Fitness to Shopping & Travel, with loads of great information to help you make better choices for yourself & Mother Earth. Julia Roberts has written the Introduction & Sophie appeared on the Oprah show on Earth Day back in April so expect to be hearing quite a bit about this fabulous new book.
Gorgeous Things thinks Gorgeously Green is the most important book to be published this year…well, maybe the new Tim Winton is kind of important too but Gorgeously Green is important is the ’saving the planet’ kind of way whereas Tim Winton is important in the ‘being very clever with words’ kind of way. Sorry ladies…having a bit of a Bridget Jones moment. You know what we mean.
May 27, 2008
Staying Gorgeous during the colder months is easy with our Hot Winter Beauty Tips.
- Hands will be Colder & Drier as your body heat will be drawn to your trunk to maintain your core tempreture. Be sure to take good care of your hands by wearing gloves to wash dishes & clean your home. Keep a good Moisturiser in your Handbag and next to the Sink.
- Watch the Tempreture & Duration of your Shower or Bath. It’s easy in the colder months to stay in longer & crank the hot water but this will lead to
your skin drying out quickly. Nobody wants those yucky dry patches on their shins! So gross.
- Eat Your Spinach! No complaining, I wont hear it! It was good enough to keep Popeye in tip top shape & being jam packed with Vitamins it’ll do wonders for you too! Believe me, Radiant Beauty comes from the inside so fry up some Garlic & a pound of Spinach and prepare to look HOT!
Just while we’re on the subject of eating to look HOT! I’ve just finished a rather fabulous book called How To Eat Like a Hot Chick by Jodi Lipper & Cerina Vincent.
Now I must warn you, there’s some rather colourful language used to describe the Author’s attitude to Food & Dieting but don’t let that get in your way. You’ll be far too busy agreeing with & laughing at their marvellous descriptions of why we women do what we do when it comes to food, self esteem, guilt & love. There are some very Empowering Steps involved in eating like a Hot Chick, it’s all about Self Esteem & Being Kind to Yourself…and Spinach. Eat your Spinach ladies, it’s the gateway to feeling fabulous!
How To Eat Like a Hot Chick is published by Harper Collins & will cost you $24.95 at any good bookshop.
Check out Jodi & Cerina’s entertaining & informative column on the Huffington Post
November 17, 2007
Esther Blum has a new book ‘Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous’ and I’m off to the
bookstore to get myself a copy. I’m excited to read about how doing 2 of my favourite things…eating and drinking can assist me to be gorgeous.
What’s it about?
Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous is about having your cake and eating it too. In her years of practice, Esther has helped show countless women how to put the fun back in eating, be a tigress in bed, eat and drink like a food fashionista, choose the right vitamins, feel up instead of feeling down, and realize that life is too short to be on a diet the whole time!
You can check out Esther’s site Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous
September 28, 2007
One of the most interesting and conceptually brilliant magazines ever published, ‘Dumbo Feather’ is now available in your country at Barnes & Noble stores.
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September 26, 2007
Well, as a matter of fact I have. Whilst trying to reconcile my love of the web with my previous career in book publishing I’m often faced with the dilemma of no time for reading for enj
oyment. I adore words, their subtleties and their use fascinates me and that fact that a well worded insult can wound more profoundly than a bunch of fives really does it for me. With that in mind I got up from my desk on Saturday and went to the biggest book store I could find and spent hours trawling through the shelves trying to find something good to read.
I stumbled across a very pink looking book ‘Sugarbabe’ by Holly Hill (a pseudonym I learn from the back cover) that’s based on a true story and immediately I’m enthralled. Let me tell you this is not highbrow literature but it is one of the most compelling things I’ve read in a while. So much so that the next time I looked up it was 20 minutes later and I’d read 25 pages. Thought I’d better purchase it before someone came up and said “it’s not a library y’know.”
This is what it’s about - after a failed relationship 35 year old Psychologist, Holly decides that to pay her mortgage and write the novel she’s been conceptualising she needs a Sugar Daddy. She places an ad and the rest of the book is her search for and encounters with wealthy men (one at a time of course) who employ her services as confidant and lover. Now, if this book were just sex and titillation then I’d probably have given up around page 40 (my usual give up point for annoying fiction where I don’t care about the characters) but ‘Sugarbabe’ is so much more and charms you with it’s portrayal of ‘real’ characters with real human flaws. It also challenges your notion of right and wrong and begs the question ‘how far would you go?’
On the scale of ‘buy a copy of Marie Claire instead and save yourself the pain’ to ‘no, no I’m serious…you have to read this book’ Sugababe comes in with just less than top marks and I’m giving it a ‘go on…treat yourself.’
Sugarbabe by Holly Hill $32.95
Published by Random House Australia
September 19, 2007
I found this great little book in one of my favourite girly homewares stores in Terrigal on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It’s called ‘No Tattoos Before You’re Thirty - what I’ll tell my children…’ by Aussie writer Sam de Brito and it’s well worth the $15 and the 20 minutes of your time. It’s insightful and also really funny. Definitely the kind of advice I wish my father had given me.
I’ll have to admit that I got my first, and so far only tattoo (I’m not ruling ou
t more) at the age of 28 but I totally understand where Sam is coming from with his advice. The book is in 2 sections - the front for advice he’d give to a daughter titled ‘for my gorgeous daughter’ and the back is advice for sons ‘to my dashing son.’
The first person who can tell me where I got the picture for my tattoo from then there’s a copy of ‘No Tattoos Before You’re Thirty’ on it’s way to you. Feel free to send in pictures of your own tattoos - as long as they’re tasteful and tell me how old you were when you got them - what was your inspiration and are you still glad it’s a part of you?
I’m curious because I see many people at my Natural Therapies Clinic that have had tattoos removed and they’re usually the ones they’ve had done when they were fairly young.
July 6, 2007
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