Return to Book Page. After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals with the devil in her job as editor of Juice, one of Australia's hottest weekly celebrity gossip magazines. In the cut-throat world of weekly trash mags, Nina thrives on the adrenalin of out-b After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals with the devil in her job as editor of Juice, one of Australia's hottest weekly celebrity gossip magazines.
In the cut-throat world of weekly trash mags, Nina thrives on the adrenalin of out-bidding her rivals for scandalous photo sets, scoring exclusive rights to Australia's A-list weddings and having the most influential celebrity managers on speed-dial.
But in her personal life, things aren't quite as glossy.
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Just as she's back on the single scene, all her friends start getting up the duff faster than you can say, 'Welcome to Nappy Valley'. While Nina spends her days managing her magazine's multi-million-dollar budget and stalking Kim Kardashian's every move, they're managing their minuscule maternity leave allowance and stalking their local daycare waiting list. Suddenly she feels like she's being rejected from a club she doesn't even want to join. With a reality TV show in the works and a Facebook feed overflowing with endless baby updates, Nina heads to New York on an impromptu girls' trip to get away from it all - but little does she know that things are about to get a whole lot more complicated Paperback , pages.
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May 31, Sam Still Reading rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Recommended to Sam Still Reading by: The first book ended on such an unexpected fate for editor Nina Morey that I just had to know what happened to her. Did she manage to pick herself up and get back into things, or was she still self-medicating with vodka as she lost control? Happily, I can tell you that the Nina we meet some time later is happily back in the magazine industry and in control as the editor of the celebrity weekly, Juice. But then two curveballs hit her — all her friends are getting pregnant and going baby ga-ga while her magazine is being turned into a reality television programme.
Will she lose her friends as her celebrity status goes upwards? Will she be able to handle fame? Who is intent on bringing Nina down? Crisp once again puts Nina in a number of very awkward positions and sometimes her reactions are childish and cringe worthy but completely honest — somewhat of a redeeming feature. Was she wrong to choose career? This book relates a lot of the issues affecting young women today in a humorous fashion. The other main issue affecting Nina in this novel is her accession to fame.
She whinges to the wrong person, which is taken completely out of proportion and suddenly her creditability is on the life. Apr 07, Jodi rated it liked it. I first began this book in , but for whatever reason it just didn't grab me. This year though, I decided to pick it up and give it another chance while I was waiting on other books to arrive in my post box.
I still found it a little slow to begin with, but I persisted. I really enjoyed the voice of Nina.
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She was fun, sassy and a little flawed, which made her real. I also enjoyed the portrayal of the magazine world through Nina's eyes, and think Gemma, with her own experiences, did this reall I first began this book in , but for whatever reason it just didn't grab me. I also enjoyed the portrayal of the magazine world through Nina's eyes, and think Gemma, with her own experiences, did this really well. I'm not going to bang on about the storyline, I'm sure others have in their reviews, but I enjoyed it enough to keep reading. I think the book actually improved the more I read, and by the end I was keen to see how it would all play out.
Dec 26, Karleen rated it it was ok.
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This book is fairly terrible as you would imagine however I didn't hate it and managed to finish it so it gets 2 stars from me. I received it as part of an online book exchange pyramid-scheme-like thing. It's your typical trash book holiday read, easy mindless passing the time. Maybe it's just not my genre, but the main character is not very likeable: Wouldn't recommend to friends but I'm also not throwing it straight in the bin.
Jun 07, Kylie rated it it was ok Shelves: Basically, overall not a bad book. But had way to many common slang terms that aren't actually used in day to day conversation - no real grip on reality there.
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But really cinched it for me was the reference that pre-term babies would have to be fed through an eye dropper Um sweetheart - perhaps do a little research, premmies are not kittens. Sep 12, Monique rated it it was ok. From these studies, we argue that understanding the effects of taking away our smartphones can reveal what the connected state of mind means for us individually and for society. When people cannot use technology to connect with one another, to stay informed, and to entertain themselves, they may lose out on important psychological benefits.
Psychology has provided decades of evidence that social connection is incredibly important for well-being, and that a desire for information and entertainment are core human needs. There is also plenty of evidence that we have social brains that have evolved and become highly tuned to seeking out social information. This is precisely what using the phone, with its access to vast amounts of social media, can provide.
We should not throw out decades of research from psychology and communication just because technology is involved, especially when these literatures suggest that the phone can facilitate important social and psychological needs. This is not to say that there is no value in disconnecting. There clearly is—turning phones off during social gatherings, paying attention to the people we are with, and having time alone and unplugged to recharge are all important. But to assume that our constant state of connection with the phone constitutes an addiction is to miss the point.
With this approach, we see one important warning sign of the connected state: Companies that provide media content for the phone are using psychology and strategic communication research to get us to spend as much time on them as possible.
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These techniques, when used to manipulate us rather than support us, need to be fought against through regulation and education. The changes that technologies facilitate certainly influence our attention, our memory, and our relationships—sometimes for the worse.
But this has been true for every technology that has come before, from writing and the alphabet to the advent of radio and television. These changes, however, are systematic and predictable by carefully considering the interaction between psychology and technology. Markowitz is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and will start as an assistant professor at the University of Oregon in His research uses computational methods to analyze how language is affected by psychological dynamics, and evaluates how communication media modify social and psychological experiences.
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