Mind Like A Steel Sieve
From time to time, publishers send me those "improve your memory books," and, well, I forget where I've left them, and that's that.

No, sorry, cheap joke. The truth is, they're all boring as fuck, and I use them to prop up furniture (I like antiques but, in my spirit of frugality, buy old crap with "good bones" from garage sales and junk stores, so there's often a leg that, well, suffers from the furniture version of polio).

Whoops -- almost forgot the subject of this post. It's about a book by an old New York Daily News friend of mine, Lenore Skenazy, who's also the author of Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry. Before you think I'm just recommending this because I know her, I have to say, plenty of friends of mine write books, and many of those books I...um...forget to mention on my blog.

But, this one is actually fun -- a lot of fun to quiz other people with. It's by Lenore and Carol Boswell, and it's called Who's the Blonde That Married What's-His-Name?: The Ultimate Tip-of-the-Tongue Test of Everything You Know You Know--But Can't Remember Right Now. Check out how it works on Amazon, on the "Search Inside This Book" link.

Oh, and thanks to everyone who's pre-ordered my book, I See Rude People: One Woman's Battle to Beat Some Manners into Impolite Society. Every time someone does, my stats (Amazon rankings, that is), go down! (This is a good thing -- meaning a little closer to #1.)

Wait a sec - that's paperback. Where's the leather-bound gold-embossed acid-free-burrowing-owl-paper edition?!

Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 30, 2009 9:31 AM

Amy Alkon

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/07/30/mind_like_a_ste.html#comment-1660487">comment from Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers

Believe me, it was hard enough just getting to trade paperback!

I really lucked out with the woman who was in charge of copy-editing and assigning and supervising the interior design of the book. I have the page proofs with me, and I'm just thrilled. It's really readable, which I know makes a difference it how it sells.

Amy Alkon at July 30, 2009 10:23 AM

Just yesterday, my mother requested "the yogurt with those people in the commercial who look like they're really enjoying it."

MonicaP at July 30, 2009 11:02 AM

Amy Alkon

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2009/07/30/mind_like_a_ste.html#comment-1660502">comment from MonicaP

Hilarious, MonicaP.

Amy Alkon at July 30, 2009 11:59 AM

Would that be the freaks created by disney or the octegenarian aticipateing taking a shit?

lujlp at July 30, 2009 12:36 PM

that should be anticipating

lujlp at July 30, 2009 12:38 PM

For this lovely blog post, Amy, I'm inventing a "Who's the Blonde Who Married What's His Name?" tongue tipper (i.e., quiz question) just for you!

Who's the FUNNY ADVICE COLUMNIST who used to be in that PAPER that was sort of the one where the SUPERHERO WITH THE CAPE(who wasn't THE ONE FROM QUEENS) worked?

Good luck figuring 'em all out! -- Lenore

Lenore Skenazy at July 30, 2009 7:18 PM

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