Isobel Irons's Blog: Novels So Vivid, You'll Forget You're Actually Reading, page 7

How to Look at Life from a Better Angle

A lot of people go through the world just looking at things the way they are. A cloud is a cloud, meaning later it might rain. An old man eating by himself in a restaurant is just a senior citizen enjoying a meal. A t-shirt with wolves on it is just a (kind of tacky) t-shirt. And a product review on Amazon is just a way to tell other potential buyers, in the simplest terms, whether the item was worth buying or not.

…Or is it?

Take a look at what someone wrote for this little beauty:

Amazon Revie...

The Making of Isobel Irons

Dear beloved fans,

I started this identity, and this site, as a way to cross over.

My whole life, I’ve been like a Hollywood Zombie. Not in the physical sense (because, gross) but in the vocational sense. I started my professional life obscenely early–some might say–at the age of fifteen when I began my first work-study internship during my sophomore year of high school. By the time I’d graduated, I had completed EIGHT career internships. Keep in mind, that’s high school. At age 20, I was holdi...