“book-blog.com”
Author/Editor: Debra Hamel
Category: Book Reviews
About “book-blog.com”
Profession: Not Applicable
location: North Haven, CT
I'm the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece (Yale University Press, 2003), which is a sometimes bawdy story about an ancient prostutite--nonfiction written for a general audience, so it assumes no prior knowledge of Greek culture or history. I've also written some scholarly papers and reviews and several articles now for Military History Quarterly. I've been spending a lot of time on the web. My book review site, book-blog.com (http://book-blog.blogspot.com) was my first blog, created in 2003. I write all the reviews myself, and have posted more than 150 at the site. The book-blog was followed by a site for more general observations, the-deblog.com (http://the-deblog.blogspot.com). I love blogging, and I love the idea of blogging. As for books, I created a site in the summer of 2005 that readers here should find interesting, Buy a Friend a Book (http://www.buyafriendabook.com). I urge visitors to the site to celebrate four Buy a Friend a Book weeks a year, the first weeks of January, April, July, and October. It's a lot of fun, actually, and lit bloggers have taken to the idea when they've heard about it. Good karma, good books, as the site says.
Favorite Authors
This is difficult. Looking at my book shelves at the authors with the most books represented I see Patricia Highsmith, Ken Follett, Somerset Maugham. But there are so many good authors out there.
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