Authors seem quite appreciative of what
I do. I've collected a few of the nice things they have said!
Barbara Oakley,
author of of the first book review I did, called Evil Genes sent me this:
"You're a natural! Wow--can you just pretend to be me and go do my
book talks for me--you do a better job of it! :) Thank you so very
much--what a fun, relaxed, and interesting talk! You described what
I
really wanted people to get out of the book. I'm
hoping you'll do
more video book reviews like this--it's
a fun way to learn about
books, and you are able to synthesize
the book's content in a very
interesting way."
and
"I
think one of the things I liked best about your video book review is that
you just enjoyed what you'd read, and you wanted to share your pleasure.
What was especially nice, though, was that you could *see* how much you enjoyed the book!
It was nice that it was my book, for sure, but I
would have enjoyed such an upbeat
review with any book."
Philip Alcabes, author of Dread, had this lovely thing to say on his blog:
"May science be what Joanne Manaster does at her incomparable website:
looking at the world with wonder,
asking without dogmatic preconceptions how
it works,
and accepting that its irrepressible quirkiness makes it impossible to know
the world perfectly."
Hannah Holmes, author of The Well Dressed Ape and Quirk said such a
fun thing to me:
"Oh
my god you're like Sandra Bullock with a brain! You're ADORABLE!!!!!!!
I can't wait to get Joanned!"
Yay! I'm a verb!
Then on her blog, she added:
" A magical creature
from Illinois has posted a video review
of The Well Dressed Ape on Youtube.
It’s adorable. Joanne is adorable.
It’s probably the future of book reviews,
since newspapers
appear to be a dying breed."
Where is this book industry headed, I wonder? The last great revolution, the printing press, has
held sway for a few hundred years. But clearly, its reign is on the wane. What shape will the new paradigm take? Answer
correctly, and you could win a million dollars. Or a billion.
A magical
creature from Illinois has posted a video review of The Well Dressed Ape on Youtube. It’s adorable. Joanne is adorable.
It’s probably the future of book reviews, since newspapers appear to be a dying breed.
Where is this book industry headed, I wonder? The
last great revolution, the printing press, has held sway for a few hundred years. But clearly, its reign is on the wane.
What shape will the new paradigm take? Answer correctly, and you could win a million dollars. Or a billion.
