Continuing with my updates, I have been so busy reading and attending author events. Last week I saw Chuck Klosterman talk about pop culture: Lady Gaga, LeBron James and soccer. His take on everything is hiliarious!
This week I am reading Cavedweller by one of my favorite authors, Dorothy Allison. The first book I read by her was Bastard Out of Carolina and it was extremely vivid and hearbreaking to read. The descriptions and the setting had a great impact on the life of young Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright. Of course I won't spoil the plot of the book but I will say this: child abuse is wrong.
I am half way through Cavedweller and I noticed some similiarities in the two books. Allsion stretches the importance and diversity of the mother-daughther relationship almost in the same way. Both books deal with the idea of domestic violence in a small town. Bastard Out of Carolina shows the unfair treatment Bone receives from her selfish mother who chooses her abusive husband over her own daughter. So far in Cavedweller, Delia's daughter Cissy feels unhappy about moving to Cayro and even neglected when Delia talks about reuniting with her other two daughters. I have a feeling the relationships among the women will continue to intensify as I kee turning the pages.
This reoccuring theme is fantastic because it inspires Dorothy Allsion to write how women intereact with each other and how they come to terms with their lives in past and present. She certainly has a knack for telling a beautiful story and setting reality back into perspective. That's one of the reasons I love reading non-fiction!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Fashionista Book
This week Lady Gaga is in concert at Madison Square Garden and I don't have tickets. I originally had this super orgainzed plan of buying tickets at the minute the time the tickets went on sale(10 AM), but I underestimated her much more dedicated fans she has than I am to her. She's been doing fantastic for the past year and why not? She's just phenomenal making people want to embrace their true personalities. We're always taught be ourselves and she takes it to the extreme.
With all the celebrities publishing books, I wonder just how many copies Lady Gaga would sell if she publishes her own book. There is absolutely no doubt she would earn out the money because she is taking over the music industry. Not to forget, she is being compared to Michael Jackson, who also published his autobiography known as Moonwalk. His book did great debuting at number two on the New York Bestsellers list but that's no surprise. I can't even imagine what Lady Gaga's sales would be like in the first week. I would think she would writet about fashion and being a "monster" herself. I think it would be an original idea to write about the process of being physically involved in the attire she wears on and off stage. I don't even know how she wears the weirdly designed shoes and the spiked shoulder pads. You get the point.
I haven't even mentioned how easy and costly it would be to do publicity and marketing for a book by Lady Gaga. Publicity would social medias such as Z100, MTV, subway posters, advertising on her own personal website, bookstores, The View, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, and etc. As for marketing, Lady Gaga is a marketing tool herself. I am positively sure making a deal with a publishing house is going to make people want to faint, but I have strong feeling the book will be beyond successful.
With all the celebrities publishing books, I wonder just how many copies Lady Gaga would sell if she publishes her own book. There is absolutely no doubt she would earn out the money because she is taking over the music industry. Not to forget, she is being compared to Michael Jackson, who also published his autobiography known as Moonwalk. His book did great debuting at number two on the New York Bestsellers list but that's no surprise. I can't even imagine what Lady Gaga's sales would be like in the first week. I would think she would writet about fashion and being a "monster" herself. I think it would be an original idea to write about the process of being physically involved in the attire she wears on and off stage. I don't even know how she wears the weirdly designed shoes and the spiked shoulder pads. You get the point.
I haven't even mentioned how easy and costly it would be to do publicity and marketing for a book by Lady Gaga. Publicity would social medias such as Z100, MTV, subway posters, advertising on her own personal website, bookstores, The View, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, and etc. As for marketing, Lady Gaga is a marketing tool herself. I am positively sure making a deal with a publishing house is going to make people want to faint, but I have strong feeling the book will be beyond successful.
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