Fireball - Spicey, Hot Cinnamon eLiquid
Fireball eLiquid creates a new definition for cinnamon eJuice. Imagine the simmering, hot goodness of a cinnamon asteroid burning through space only to be captured by lab techs at VapeSafe and distilled into a bottle of Fireball eLiquid. If you like the flavor of spicey hot cinnamon candy and you enjoy the sensation of heavy vapor pouring out of your electronic cigarette, then you are in luck. We created Fireball just for you.
Fireball eLiquid by VapeSafe brings the spice back into spicey. As with all of the VapeSafe eLiquids, our mixtures are designed to produce nice, heavy vapors and the most succulent flavors.
Try Fireball eLiquid today!
Technology Information:
My Hollywood
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $26.95
Manufacturer: Knopf
Purchase
Description
A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of Anywhere But Here and A Regular Guy, her first in ten years. It tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood.
Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to LA so her husband can follow his passion for writing television comedy. Suddenly the marriage—once a genuine 50/50 arrangement—changes, with Paul working long hours and Claire left at home with a baby, William, whom she adores but has no idea how to care for.
Lola, a fifty-two-year-old mother of five who is working in America to pay for her own children’s higher education back in the Philippines, becomes their nanny. Lola stabilizes the rocky household and soon other parents try to lure her away. What she sacrifices to stay with Claire and “Williamo” remains her own closely guarded secret.
In a novel at turns satirical and heartbreaking, where mothers’ modern ideas are given practical overhauls by nannies, we meet Lola’s vast network of fellow caregivers, each with her own story to tell. We see the upstairs competition for the best nanny and the downstairs competition for the best deal, and are forced to ask whether it is possible to buy love for our children and what that transaction costs us all.
We look into two contemporary marriages—one in America and one in the Philippines—and witness their endangerment, despite the best of intentions.
My Hollywood is a tender, witty, and resonant novel that provides the profound pleasures readers have come to expect from Mona Simpson, here writing at the height of her powers.
Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. The Help is her first novel. Read her review of My Hollywood:
My Hollywood: Step into the glittering lives of Hollywood America, as scrubbed, wiped, and polished by immigrant women. It's so refreshing that a book can be this poignant, satirical, and heartbreaking at once. You might find yourself laughing at your own life as you read what the help says and thinks behind the backs of American housewives. You'll wonder at the intricate system of the modern household--where one mother pays another to give her children love. It illuminates the differences between American and immigrant mothers--until you realize how alike we are! The vivid accents and the vibrant voices of the children continue to ring in my ear. I loaned it to my mom and she took it to Mississippi with her and won't send it back. I'll be buying a copy of my own.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-04
Summary: "Smart, incisive dissection of modern family life"
Why is it so difficult to raise children today -- and remember that you still have your own dreams? Simpson gets into every nook and cranny of this question, and in the process she's written one of the best portrayals of contemporary family that I've read.
For women who were raised to believe that they could be mothers and still be themselves, this book is especially valuable. There's all the guilt and self-doubt of raising children, (trying to have) a career, and employing a nanny, but Simpson isn't interested in just reflecting those familiar emotions. She brings them out in rueful, often funny stories, showing their impact on not just the mothers but their whole families.
I was particularly interested in Lola, the Filipino nanny who narrates about half the book. This was a tough character to get right -- it would have been really easy to make her a Magic Brown Person, especially since her voice is in broken English. To her credit and my relief, Simpson didn't go this route. Lola has her own dreams, her own responsibilities, and of course, her own take on all of this American family stuff. Her voice is so important because in all of these debates about how women should combine careers and children, we rarely hear from women who don't have a choice.
I don't understand why Simpson isn't as critically lauded as some other writers I can think of (cough: Jonathan Franzen). She's funny, her characters come alive from the first page, she writes with care and with empathy. I'm giving a copy to my mother, in recognition of what she gave up to raise me. And I think she'll enjoy it as much as did.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-08-22
Summary: "My Hollywood-High Expectations"
A novel about an American mommy and her Filipina nanny set in LA. My personal opinion-this book is really more about choices and accepting the consequences of one's choice. In the end , it proves that up to a certain level of income (when the basic hierarchy of needs plus some had been met), money does not equate to contentment or happiness. The American employers were just simply narcissitic, whiny and chronically unhappy whereas the Filipina nanny, more pragmatic and resilient. The cultural differences was really highlited when the author is writing in the voices of the protagonists (Claire, the employer and Lola, the nanny). Mona Simpson writes in a very straightforward prose and the book is an easy read. Good summer reading
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-08-20
Summary: "WASTE OF TIME"
I refuse to write much more than a sentence or two about this dog's-breakfast-of-a-book, as I feel I have wasted enough time on it. Save your money.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-19
Summary: "What Life Is Really Like"
My Hollywood explores a number of issues and tensions--motherhood vs. career, parenting vs. hiring nannies, spending on your family vs. spending on yourself, giving vs. receiving, and all of what these issues bring up--from a variety of perspectives through the first-person narratives of two characters. And through these tensions, very little is resolved, which is a nice way to show what life is really all about--exploring and striving for resolution, but never really getting there.
As someone without children, and as someone who has worked with families but never as a nanny, I found the explorations in My Hollywood fascinating. Each of the two main characters (a white composer and mother, and a Filipina nanny who has left her family behind in order to send money home from LA) gets a taste of what she loves, a taste of what she fears, and a taste of her own medicine when she finds she has taken her life for granted. The story is pretty dreary at many times, as the realities of working as domestic labor, of watching children grow older and independent, of parenting without a good parental role model, and of spending more than one is earning all pile up on the characters' heads.
This is not an uplifting tale of finding happiness just by working hard enough. But it is a fantastically realistic view of finding happiness through compromise, through sacrifice, and through really seeing yourself, your place in the world, and the limitations each of us is born into.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-08-15
Summary: "Fell a little bit flat"
This is a book about the modern Mom in all her over-scheduled yet scattered glory. There were definite insights in this book, and areas where the writing was outstanding. But, unfortunately, the story ultimately fell a bit flat.
Told alternately from the perspective of Claire, a composer and the mother of a young son; and Lola, the Filipina nanny whom she hires to watch her child when she is working, the story covers a lot of the challenges that the working mother faces, including the guilt involved in choosing to continue with a career when having a young child. I am not sure if the author was trying to portray the hectic and often scattered nature of the working mother when using Claire as the narrator, but I found her sections a bit serpentine and unfocused. From Lola's narrative, we also get insights into a close community of nannies who bond together and share their own challenges, which in many cases includes being working mothers themselves.
Nobody's perfect in this book. Mistakes are made on both sides of the spectrum. I think the author actually nailed a lot of the challenges to parenting these days, but overall, the story gets flat and repetitive as the book goes on. Perhaps this is because the everyday trials and tribulations of the average mom tend to be a bit boring after awhile in real life as well as on the page. Everyone's just doing what they think is best for their family, but there is really not much excitement there. The book was just okay.