Pennyworth Books

I saw “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” recently. The film, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett is almost three hours long. It’s an astonishing film that explores themes of life, death and love in the context of a man who ages backwards. It’s unique and thought provoking, diverting and depressing. I knew it was adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, I decided it was high time I read it. The book turned out to be a short story first published in Colliers Magazine in 1921. In an introduction to his story, Fitzgerald reflected that a quote by Mark Twain gave him the idea. This quote could be the one that inspired him, it certainly fits the premise.

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” –Mark Twain

The movie differs from Fitzgerald’s story. The title is the same, as…

If you want to make a lot of money with your own eBook
and you only read one book on the subject in the next
12 months, I strongly recommend that it’s ‘eBook
Secrets Exposed’ by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel.

The authors are both well qualified in this area. Jim
Edwards has written five best-selling eBooks
(including ‘The Lazy Man’s Guide to Online Business’ and
’33 Days To Online Success’).

David Garfinkel is considered by many to be the
world’s greatest copyrighting coach. He’s an
award-winning business journalist and is also the
author of several best-selling eBooks, such as
‘Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich’ and ‘Killer
Copy Tactics’.

There have been so many books on this subject that I
really couldn’t imagine how this book could add
anything new.

But I have never before seen an eBook that explains
so clearly how to do it. I got the feeling that you could
literally walk in Jim Edwards’ footsteps and get the
same results he did (over 4,500 eBook…

SPOILER- The Secret is the law of attraction. Sorry to ruin it. Basically, you get what you think about. Think happy thoughts, get happy things. Think sad thoughts, get sad things.

While being in a constant state of depression about your career, life goals, or relationships is not very healthy, according to The Secret, it is also counter productive. Thought breeds action. If you are constantly thinking about how opportunities are not coming your way, then continually, opportunity will not be coming your way. If you take your energies and place them into positive career and life affirming goals and actions, what do you think the outcome is going to be?

It also concedes that it is OK to have negative thoughts on occasion, as they do not have much power on their own. However, if one negative thought breeds another and another and another, then that is where the problems begin…

There are only a few basic hard and fast rules to writing.

I once read that writing is like eating an elephant. If you look at how much is ahead it can stop you from even beginning. But if you just take it one bite at a time, you’ll eventually get there. How fast will depend on how big of bites you take.

You have the idea and subject and whether it’s fiction or non-fiction much of the process itself is the same. Start with a basic outline. If you have timelines that bounce around, get those nailed down or they’ll trip you up. This can cost you a lot of editing time and I don’t know about you but editing is my least favorite thing. But I have found that doing the line by line and page by page editing as you go is a lot easier than editing the whole…

“The Insiders Secrets of an eBay Millionaire” is a complete study of the techniques to make a reasonable living on eBay. Derek Gehl and Brandon Dupsky have teamed up to develop a detailed system on how to navigate eBay, find the right products, enjoy profitable online auctions and strive to become a Power Seller. Every tip and trick that Brandon has used on eBay to generate his 8 million dollars in sales last year, were apparently told to Derek Gehl.

The only part that was difficult for me is the time it took to study and digest the material included. There is so much information you will probably have to return to the books until they become second nature. The authors claim that you will be up and running on eBay in 24 hours, is a little ambitious. Take your time and really let the information sink in.

The following background was…

Mira James retreats to Battle Lake, Minnesota, to recover from a bad break up. She works part-time as a reporter for the local paper and she runs the small town library. The local residents consist of some very colorful characters. Mira finds herself diving into Whiskey Lake to solve a hundred-year-old mystery of some missing diamonds. Researching further into this story, Mira discovers that the husband of the woman that hid the jewels also disappeared around the same time. The local newspaper holds a contest to draw attention to this story. Fakes jewels are planted in the lake to be found by divers; instead, Mira finds a fake body.

Mira finds herself in danger when she gets entangled in the search for these jewels. She discovers that there is more to the story with planted fake bodies, a fake shooting and a real kidnapping of a child very dear to her.…

“Finding Your Own North Star claiming the life you were meant to live” by Martha Beck has continue to make me think about my life. Martha Beck writes about the “every body” in our lives that we manifest in our mind that stops us from reaching our North Star. The essential self is always trying to lead us to our North Star. Our social self succumbs to the people who try to stop the merger of our social self and essential self. The “every body” is normally exaggerated in the mind of the social self. The social self creates people in your path who do not want you to reach your North Star than actually exist. When the essential self and social self are in alignment, then we will have eternal bliss and fulfillment.

Our social self control our essential self by originating “every body” whose job is to deter us…