Congratulations to Angela Nissel...Her up and coming book, Broke Diaries was given an excellent review in Publisher's Weekly! The best is yet to come!!!



Publishers Weekly
January 22, 2001
Page 309 (Non-fiction Forecast Section)

The Broke Diaries:
The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke.
Angela Nissel
(April)

The Internet has been around long enough as a venue for works like the diary
presented here, which debuted online, for such works to have lost some of
their mystique. Still, Nissel deserves her moment in the sun. As a struggling
college student at the University of Pennsylvania, she decided that to keep
her mind off of her empty stomach, she would keep a journal of her days and
post it on the Net.
The result is a series of biting, funny entries about the evil atmosphere of
check-cashing offices, the horror of being two cents short for the grocery
bill and the joys of making friends who buy dinner.

Her wry thoughts about being flat broke will appeal to readers who enjoyed
Bridget Jones's exploits and similarly sparky works. Nissel is no fictional
Bridget, however, obsessing about weight and cigarettes. She's a city girl
who knows the exact price of Ramen Noodles and the pain of counting pennies.
Although she occasionally recycles material, she rants with aplomb, using
colorful anecdotes (her elderly landlord comes for the rent and ends up
falling asleep on the couch) to pull the reader further into her impoverished
reality. She doesn't delve into the actual fear and pain associated with
poverty, but views her time of hunger with amusement, like a financial
misadventure that she always knew would end. Charming and sharp, Nissel's
diary will be relished by anyone who's ever been a student and remembers
those ramen noodles.

Forecast: With a blurb from Chris Rock, a five-city author tour, stickering
campaigns in several key cities and a low cover price, this paperback
original is poised for success.


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