Glitter Smiles

"The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: a magical story" by Marie Kondo and illustrated by Yuko Uramoto Visually this book brings a sense of calm and a simplistic joy to look at. It's simple without much distraction and it leads you into showing how you'll experience a non-distracted, simpler life when you put the methods KonMari goes over in her tale. The back cover entertains you with the mess the main character Chiaki is currently living with before she hires KonMari to help her tidy up. Flipping through pages you find a refreshing art style that doesn't drown your visuals in ink. I've heard of Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" before and immediately realized it was a manga-tized version when I realized it was going over the same method I heard once before. "It's not the things I'm discarding, but the things I'm keeping that are in this room. I had been so focused on finding junk that I had completel...

I picked up Leading Lady: Sherry  Lansing  and the Making of a Hollywood  Groundbreaker  by  Stephen Galloway  without  any knowledge of Sheryl Lansing or what she had worked on.  But here was a confident woman on the front of a  book with raving reviews on  Sheryl at the back (rather than the  common reviews on the book itself).    My  experience with reading this  book was one of  inspiration, when her story began to pick  up. I started and put the book  down at least three times, telling myself to just get through it, because  even a poor story  deserves   the second chance opportunity, and for me it really did need that struggle through reading a few of the chapters.  It really doesn't pick up until chapter 4/5 and with such long chapters it's hard to say someone will sit with the story long enough to get caught in it.    When you understand that Sherry ...