Spending The Day With Denise Hamilton
Thanks largely to this awful economy, I haven't really had a day off since Gregg took me to Paris last November, and I woke up today all life-exhausted and went back to bed. Gregg, who is wise about things, told me to stay home (instead of going out to my writing cafe), and I listened, and I've been having a fabulous day, sleeping and reading.

I'm about 100 pages into a fantastic crime novel, Damage Control, by my friend Denise Hamilton, about a murder, politics, and a girl in crisis PR (like a friend of ours who started Buzz magazine, who she surely did some long interviews with).

Great book -- compelling story, laced with interesting mentions of perfume (Denise is now the LA Times' Magazine's perfume columnist and is into forgotten French fragrances), and wonderful, evocative writing. Plus, it's set in California -- largely LA -- and Denise really captures the place with bits of language here and there getting you from place to place in the crime story.

Great to see a friend so successful. And I highly recommend the book, which you can get in hardcover, paperback, audiobook or eBook at the Amazon link above.

>> Laced with perfume...

Hey! Where's our Gretchen been lately?

Eric at November 5, 2011 5:04 PM

Good question. I think she married a tall guy, and these are the Sex Years.

Speaking of tall... Here's Big Mac, keepin' it real.

Crid [CridComment at gmail] at November 5, 2011 9:29 PM

Like this link so much I haven't even followed it yet.

Crid [CridComment at gmail] at November 5, 2011 10:03 PM

Hope you enjoyed your day off.

Jim P. at November 6, 2011 5:14 AM

Amy Alkon

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/11/05/spending_the_da.html#comment-2743883">comment from Jim P.

Really, really needed that. Only problem was that it was hard to fall asleep last night after sleeping a lot during the day.

Amy Alkon at November 6, 2011 7:12 AM

since I trust you fully on all matters literary (as well as dietary) I just ordered the book for my iPad. Now if the rain would start so I can get out of a walk I promised to do with my husband I can spend a cozy afternoon reading.

casey at November 6, 2011 11:12 AM

Amy Alkon

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/11/05/spending_the_da.html#comment-2744221">comment from casey

Thank you -- finished it yesterday night. Loved it. Hope you do, too!

Amy Alkon at November 6, 2011 11:23 AM

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