Amazon UK recently asked me to contribute a list of ten indispensable books for the Author’s Choice column. See my list here. Today for SF Gate, I wrote about a social gaming company with an office in the Arctic Circle. Guess what? They’re hiring! Not a bad place to relocate for someone who wants to go off the grid for a while.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Disabled 5-year-old disappears in Oakland
A five-year-old boy who suffers from cerebral palsy disappeared from his father’s car in Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood yesterday. From the San Francisco Chronicle: Police said they didn’t believe the boy could have gone far if he left the car by himself. He uses leg braces to walk and has difficulty walking. Hassani is described as a black boy with light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 3 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants. Anyone with information regarding Hassani’s whereabouts is asked to call the Oakland...
The Times Book Club
No One You Know is the next book club pick for the Times Media Group, which includes 14 Northern California newspapers. There’s an excerpt from the novel in the Marin Independent Journal today. Excerpts will be running in several newspapers over the next couple of weeks. Book club discussions of No One You Know will take place at the following bookstores: 7 p.m. Mon., Sept. 14, at Book Passage, Corte Madera, 415-927-0960 7 p.m. Wed., Sept. 23 at Clayton Books, 5433 D Clayton Road, Clayton, 925-673-3325. Next Book Club “meeting”: Oct. 4 in the A&E section of the newspaper....
Child trafficking in China largely ignored by police
This article about the routine kidnapping of small children in China by child traffickers, and the state’s criminal lack of interest in aiding the parents of kidnapped children, is truly alarming. In America, when the unthinkable crime of child abduction happens, there is at least a general sense that law enforcement will make every effort within their means to find the child. Although they are often unsuccessful, at least child abductions are treated as serious crimes with horrific consequences. Imagine being a parent in China whose child has been abducted, and asking for help from the police, who turn...
Goodbye, with love, John Hughes
I just heard the news that John Hughes has died. For those of us who came of age in the eighties, his name means more than the movies. It brings back a whole slew of memories: names of boys and girls we knew, and places they took us, and the things we did and didn’t do. It was Sven Delaney’s mother who drove, I remember that clearly. This was 1984, a hot Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, and Sven and his mother picked me up in a station wagon, one of those long sleek numbers with wood paneling and little...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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