Friday, June 22, 2018

How Not to Market Books to Guys

This blurb was supposed to make me buy this book:
A New York Times bestselling author recounts growing up in 1950s Pittsburgh in this “luminous” memoir (Publishers Weekly) with nearly 2,700 five-star Goodreads ratings. “Loving and lyrical… This is a book about the capacity for joy” (Los Angeles Times).
"Luminous", "loving", "lyrical"? I feel the gorge rising.

Note: for the record I did like The Writing Life and found Annie Dillard's introspective reveries to be honest and thought-provoking.

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