The Vixen Diaries

The Vixen Diaries

This titillating expose chronicles the personal and professional adventures of this tabloid-laden socialite, dispelling some rumors, while confirming others. Diaries unveils the heavily shrouded Hollywood backrooms and its coveted secrets. Offering her ardent fans answers to burning questions and presenting lessons learned, this book will surely not disappoint. Karrine draws you in to get an up-close and personal look at the Hollywood life of fast money, drugs, and sex; all the things that make for a great movie. She discusses her interactions with people after the release of Confessions of a Video Vixen and how she copes with it all.


Customer Review: using us!!!

I am glad i waited for the library to get this book...if she has been so used and abused by Hollywood, why oh why is she using and abusing the buying public by writing this self-indulgent trash... kindly watch out for Karma...



there are no lessons here for the real talented beautiful young ladies attempting to share and grow...she is making a difficult road for many TRUE artisans to break into entertainment...not every friggin person in the entertainment industry are monsters..the book "If I Did It", you know the O.J. thing, also made it on the Times Bestseller list and many other books of HORROR make it there...kindly don't be fooled by lists...it does not make one a true writer...don't care what Harrell says...

really how can one live just to create a life of trash to write about...how sad... what does she do, go to party after party with a tape recorder, "oh i just said that and oh, they just said, and what is the real meaning of what was just said"? dag!



I ain't mad at you for there is sucker born every minute as the saying goes but i refuse to be the one to put money in someone's else's bank account.I am truly grateful i did not contribute to your new castle..enough already about how rough life is with having money...love is the key, oh, i forgot,you know all about that too, wow have you ever THOUGHT about becoming a teacher, oh forgot again, professionals only hang out with professionals...

took the book back to the library the same day and of course there is a waiting list so there is an audience for you just not me, thank goodness! Get a real life and stop taking money without really working for it...it is an abuse of love!!!


Customer Review: I'm not impressed

Now I know she went in a different direction with this one but she is so repetitive about how she is, what she is, and all about her. Plus the fact that she mentions Bill almost every chapter about nothing!! I'm not a hater, I do actually like her and support her but she fell off with this one. It's not even that it has to be like her 1st one. But a good author should not make a great 1st best seller and then flop on her 2nd. It was boring and it was hard for me to get through the whole thing, definitely not a page turning like the 1st. I also feel like if you can't mention someone's name pertaining to the 1st and 2nd book then why mention it at all?? If she ever makes a 3rd book she needs to come alot harder and juicer. You can't be so open in your 1st book and then all closed up and fake in your 2nd, it's not worth it and it disappoints readers, anyone agree??

Verdict: nice insight why the world is - as it is. But that should be visible and clear without another useless book.

If you like trash and like to support the PH-lifestyle: go ahead, click the cover image above, buy it. Its easy to delete on Kindle afterwards, so no traces, no embarrassment

Gates of Fire

Gates of Fire

The national bestseller!


At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.
Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history--one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale....



Customer Review: A Brilliant Book

Absolutely one of the best books, not just as an historical fiction, I have ever read. I could not have expected a military culture with its seeming brutality be described with such finesse and beauty.

Written beautifully as a narrative.

The narrator is the lone survivor of the battle at Thermopylae who recounts in detail the battle as one who fought with the Spartans by request from the conquering Xerxes. He begins by telling his life story, the loss of his family and how he came to know the soldiers of Sparta and King Leonidas. He describes their culture in detail, the individual men and women that he knew peripherally and personally and the build up to and the battle of Thermopylae; why he loved these people and why the Spartans were his heroes. The author wraps it up beautifully. Historical events accurate as far as I could tell.

Excellent read, I couldn't put it down.



Customer Review: Dynamite!

I want to be a Spartan! It was exciting and inspiring and though the author took a few small liberties with historical facts, it was a most excellent read. I highly recommend getting lost in Sparta! Worth the time, the money, outstanding!

Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge

Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu, alongside the Great Expectations Grapefruit, Chuzzlewit Cheese Pie, and Bleak House Bars, is a large helping of murder.

While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane -- the Sandee Brisbane who killed Goldy's ex-husband, the Jerk. But Sandee is supposed to be dead. Or so everyone believes.

Goldy's suspicions mount when the body of Drew Wellington, a former district attorney, is found in a corner of the library with a map worth thousands of dollars stashed in his clothing. She's convinced that Sandee is involved.

But the holiday madness is only just beginning for Goldy. Soon she's drawn into the dangerous, double-crossing world of high-end map dealing. And like the ghost of Christmas past, Sandee keeps making an appearance. Could she be out to prove that revenge is sweet?

Customer Review:
Love the series, but....

I think it really *is* time for Goldy to develop more, or take a trip somewhere, or solve a murder that doesn't involve her ex-husband or someone who knew him. I have hugely enjoyed the series, but this book did seem tired- full of recap, as one reviewer noted. Also, I found it pretty unbelievable, even for fun fiction murder, that a woman who wrecked a car, fell in a creek and was attacked and nearly suffocated all in one day would still get up and go to work in the morning (after a steamy shower with her husband, no less).



I love the cooking; I think the author is a great story-teller, but wouldn't you just love to see Goldy grow up a little? Or change? Or have something different in her life? Most of us do face change and challenges eventually. I keep thinking she and Tom need to have a baby or Marla needs to remarry or Julian open a new restaurant or SOMETHING. It feels like this book was the same as the last one... too bad, because Goldy is a lot of fun.


Customer Review: Rosenblat rocks!

Barbara Rosenblat rocks reading this most recent course in the "Goldie the caterer" series of Colorado Rocky Mountain (sugar) Highs, culinary delights, and cozy murders. Rosenblat even reads the included recipes with an enthusiasm and inflection that would process Julia Child into a Pavlovian canine (or maybe I've just been reviewing too many diet books lately ;-)



This entree in the Diane Mott Davidson oeuvre mixes in morsels from former capers, so you might want to enjoy those first, if you haven't already.

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Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy

I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.

-- Woody Allen

Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent wobbling.


"I awoke Friday, and because the universe is expanding it took me longer than usual to find my robe," he explains in a piece on physics called 'Strung Out.' In other flights of inspirational sanity we are introduced to a cast of characters only Allen could imagine: Jasper Nutmeat, Flanders Mealworm, and the independent film mogul E. Coli Biggs, just to name a few. Whether he is writing about art, sex, food, or crime ("Pugh has been a policeman as far back as he can remember. His father was a notorious bank robber, and the only way Pugh could get to spend time with him was to apprehend him") he is explosively funny.
>In "This Nib for Hire," a Hollywood bigwig comes across an author's book in a little country store and describes it in a way that aptly captures this magnificent volume: "Actually," the producer says, "I'd never seen a book remaindered in the kindling section before."
From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Review: Not his best, and not his worst either

Woody Allen's new book is certainly not as good as Side Effects, or Getting Even. However, it has highlights and is a decent read. Light, but a bit uneven. If you are a dedicated fan of the Woodman, you definitely should take a look at this. But if you are new to his prose, start with Getting Even, and his best work, Side Effects.

Customer Review: Allen at his absurdist best

Many may only know Woody Allen from his films . . . but he has also

written three very funny collections of short stories: GETTING EVEN,

WITHOUT FEATHERS and SIDE EFFECTS.

Over 25 years have passed since the publication of that last book,
so when I saw he recently came out with MERE ANARCHY, I quickly
got my own copy to see if he has lost his touch . . . I'm happy to say that he has not.

MERE ANARCHY, like his earlier efforts, covers a wide range of
topics . . . you'll find yourself laughing when you hear his observations about sex, food or even how parents deal with the rejection
of their son into the best nursery school in Manhattan:

* In the days following the rejection, Anna Ivanovich became
listless. She quarreled with the nanny and accused her of
brushing Mischa's teeth sideways rather than up and down.
She stopped eating regularly and wept to her shrink. "I must
have transgressed against God's will to bring this on," she
wailed. "I must have sinned beyond measure-too many
shoes from Prada." She imagined that the Hampton Jitney
tried to run her over, and when Armani canceled her charge
account for no apparent reason, she took to her bedroom and
began having an affair. This was hard to conceal from Boris
Ivanovich, since he shared the same bedroom and asked
repeatedly who the man next to them was.

I also liked what Allen had to say about moving into a new
property:

* It all began with the purchase of a small brownstone on
Manhattan's Upper West Side. Miss Wilpong, of Mengele
Realtors, promised us it was the buy of a lifetime, priced
modestly at a figure no higher than the cost of a stealth
bomber. The dwelling was drumbeat as being in "move-in
condition," and perhaps it was, for the Jukes family or a
caravan of Gypsies.

And on the subject of crime, here was his take:

* At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a
conflict over his fee led to ill feelings. I visited Beau Stubbs
on Death Row, where numerous appeals kept him from
the gallows for a decade, in which time he used prison to
learn a trade and became a highly skilled airline pilot. I
was present when the final sentence was carried out.

A great sum of money was paid to Stubbs by Nike for the television
rights, allowing the company to put its logo on the front of his
black hood. Whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent
remains questionable, although studies show that the odds of
criminals committing another crime drops by almost half after
their execution.



MERE ANARCHY is Allen at his absurdist best . . . read it,
if for no other reason than it will put a smile on your face--something
we all need to do more often.

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