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Get ‘em while they’re free: 5 books that became famous movies

Get ‘em while they’re free: 5 books that became famous movies

There’s been a dearth of interesting (to my eye) titles available for free on the Kindle store lately, so I’m happy this morning to post about a set of five new releases to make up for it. Well, “new” isn’t quite right. These are either classics, like E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India,” or books [...]

Today’s bargain book: “Admit One: My Life in Film” by Emmett James

“Admit One: My Life in Film” by Emmett James Price: $0.00 expired Summary: As a child in South London in the 1980s, Emmett James escapes his home life at the cinema, and soon decides the actor’s life is for him. In this memoir, James recounts his struggles to make it in Hollywood — he eventually [...]

Today’s bargain book: “Take Your Shirt Off and Cry” by Nancy Balbirer

“Take Your Shirt Off and Cry” by Nancy Balbirer Price: $1.81 / Lending enabled Amazon Summary: Without sparing the embarrassing details, Balbirer chronicles the two decades she spent as a struggling actress in the trenches of show business. From the searing purist tutelage of David Mamet at NYU Drama School (“In show business, women who [...]

Today's bargain book: "American Lightning" by Howard Blum

Price: $2.68 Amazon Summary: On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens [...]

Movie poster screens for your Kindle

Thanks to reader and fellow Kindle enthusiast Pete G., here are 14 movie posters to use as screen savers for your Kindle. Now you can use your Kindle to remind yourself of the movies you’re not seeing because you’re reading all the damned time. Thanks, Pete!