links for 2008-04-23

• Isabel Allende starts all of her books on 8 January
  On 1 Jan 1981 "I received a phone call that my beloved grandfather was dying. I began a letter for him that later became my first novel, The House of The Spirits. It was such a lucky book from the very beginning, that I kept that lucky date to start."
  (tags: howwework books isabelallende)