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Book of the Day: HEADS IN BEDS, by (my dear friend) Jacob Tomsky – Guys, seriou…

Book of the Day: HEADS IN BEDS, by (my dear friend) Jacob Tomsky –

Guys, seriously, this book is so good. It's a tell-all memoir that my friend Jake wrote about the years he spent working at every level of the hotel business (actually, I met him when he was working the desk at a super-fancy and never-to-be-named NYC joint where I used to stay sometimes). The quickest way to describe this is that it's like "Kitchen Confidential", except about hotels. Also, Jake writes like a natural-born novelist. And he's funny as hell.

I LOVE THIS BOOK.

And it's just out in paperback and climbing the bestseller lists. Jake's story gives hope to aspiring writers everywhere. (I knew him when, everyone! I knew him when!)

So I wanted you to know about it, and that concludes my book recommendation of the day.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13331184-heads-in-beds


Heads in Beds
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In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and…

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Sweet friends! I did this cool promotion with Barnes and Noble wherein I pre-si…

Sweet friends!

I did this cool promotion with Barnes and Noble wherein I pre-signed a bunch of copies of "The Signature of All Things" — to make sure that readers who might not be able to get to one of my events could have a signed copy! If anybody would like to buy a signed copy, you can order right here:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-signature-of-all-things-gilbert-elizabeth/1116793716?ean=9780525426721&itm=1&usri=9780525426721

xo
Liz


The Signature of All Things (Signed Edition)
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Available in: Hardcover. A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and CommittedIn The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth G

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THANK YOU, ELLE! Hello friends — I am so happy to share with you this abs…

THANK YOU, ELLE!

Hello friends —

I am so happy to share with you this absolutely lovely review of my new book, from the October issue of Elle Magazine, which is about to hit the stands this week:

“It’s a happy problem, high expecta­tions, but a problem nonetheless. One option? Blow them out of the water. With her return to fiction for the first time in a dozen years, Elizabeth Gilbert has done just that. The Signature of All Things (Viking) is a beautiful rumination on a life from start to near end, specifically the life of stubborn, talented, nineteenth-century-Philadelphia-dwelling Alma Whittaker. Gilbert’s book takes us from the Age of Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution, with side trips into the abolitionist struggle, the horrors of premodern mental-health care, the Civil War, and Darwin’s theorizing about natural selection. But she never veers far from the personal, focusing most of her attention on the exquisite biome of Alma’s family. There’s her beautiful but emotionally withdrawn adopted sister, Prudence; Alma’s bear of a father, whom we follow in the early chapters as he scrambles to make his fortune; her steely Dutch mother; and finally—a distraction that threatens to send her life’s work off course—the flighty and angelic illustrator Ambrose Pike. The real treat of the text is Gilbert’s lyrical writing. She manages to spin the study of mosses into something fascinating and, for Alma, comforting (no small feat, given that watching grass grow usually communicates eye-rolling dismissal, not entertainment value). She finds and illuminates passion in biology and dusty chests of books for both Alma and us—even those of us not exactly moved to tears by botanical drawings of orchids. While there is high-stakes adventure for the Whittakers on the high seas and in the exploration of distant lands, it’s a writer of true talent who can ignite a thudding heartbeat from a description of clasped hands in a closet. Looks like Gilbert keeps on raising the bar."

SMILING FROM EAR TO EAR RIGHT NOW!

And if any of you want to pre-order this bar-raising jam (yeah, baby!) you can do so right here:

https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/books/the-signature-of-all-things/

SO much love to you all, and less than 3 weeks to go now till publication!!!

Counting the days,

xo
Liz

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