The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Lisa Yee, author of Millicent Min: Girl Genius, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, and So Totally Emily Ebers.Her latest book, Absolutely Maybe, is her first young adult title.
Part of her entry:
The book I am listening to right now is The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. The other day I mistakenly told someone I was listening to Jimmy Buffet's biography. Whoops. Totally wrong Buffet.Learn more about Lisa Yee at her website, The Lisa Yee Blog, her MySpace page, and the new Absolutely Maybe MySpace page.What I am enjoying so much about Snowball is that master financier (Warren) Buffet's story is not just one of wheeling and dealing, but rather of an a odd little boy who grew up to be a powerful (and still odd) man. Author Alice Schroeder has a breezy writing style and even the high finance sections are easy to digest. But what she has done best is to make Buffet human. He seems like just a regular guy, albeit a genius. This is not just a great book about money and how one man amassed so much of it, it's great storytelling. [read on]
Writers Read: Lisa Yee.
--Marshal Zeringue
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