Thanks a million for all the fun comments in the giveaway for copies of my new Moon New Mexico guidebook! This is real-time winner-picking: I’m going to random.org… (Sorry, no lovely assistant is awake yet this morning. Must rely on computers.) …and I’m asking the random-number generator to pick four numbers between 1 and 17: [...]
by zora on March 31, 2011
As a former Prune employee, I’ve been looking forward to Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones & Butter for an awfully long time. I ran out the first night the book was released, bought two copies and read it immediately. Even though I already knew lots of Hamilton’s backstory, it was compelling, and it was as well [...]
by zora on March 30, 2011
For weeks, since I read Day of Honey cover to cover in a big, delicious rush, I’ve been mulling over a lengthy proper review in my head. Great books about the Middle East are so rare that they deserve splendid treatment. But I finally realized that’s not going to happen. I already lent my copy [...]
by zora on March 21, 2011
Just wanted to let everyone now that a new version of my iPhone app, Cool Cancun & Isla Mujeres is out. And it should now really be titled Cool Cancun & Isla Mujeres & Puerto Morelos–but that’s just a little unwieldy, no? I added 20 new listings for my favorite under-the-radar beach town, which is [...]