Curse of the Smiley People ; Book of the Week Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich (Granta Pounds 10.99)
Sunday Mercury › January 24, 2010
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IT'S sunny. The snow has melted. Now all we have to worry about is the slush. And I'm not talking about the melted snow.
It's the slurry of slushy feel-good guide books, released to coincide with the drab period after Christmas, that is completely unbearable.See the full content of this document
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Curse of the Smiley People ; Book of the Week Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich (Granta Pounds 10.99)
Two days ago I visited my local bookshop to be confronted by a wall of well-meaning words.
Every book on the shelf - from floor to ceiling - was telling me to put my chin-up, buck-up my ideas, push the boundaries, be all I can ...See the full content of this document
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