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About Erin

Erin Balser grew up in small-town Nova Scotia and somehow ended up living in the downtown core of Toronto, where she drinks too much coffee, tells people she’s a writer, spends all her free time on the internet and writes a lot. She’ll write things for you, if you like. They’ll be nonsensical and filled with snarktastic comments, but she’ll do it for a very low price.

She’s a whore like that.

About Books in 140

Books in 140 started when Erin decided to validate her book buying addiction by writing “reviews.” Except long reviews are hard. And take time. Erin thought she’d solve this problem by writing reviews in 140 characters on twitter. The book buying validation is solved. The review writing is not.

If you want a book to be reviewed, want to submit a guest review, want to be interviewed, or just want to tell Erin how awesome she is, head over to the contact page.

If contact pages aren’t your thing, feel free to email Erin! She hearts emails.

Review Policy

I read what I want, when I want and review what I want, when I want. Books in 140 is as much meant to be a representation of my tastes and reading habits as it is a space to discover new books.

5 Comments so far

  1. Ian on November 19th, 2008

    Haha, Erin this is great. If i had any extra money i’d get you to write things for me without a doubt!

  2. Matthew on January 8th, 2009

    LOL, Erin your Bio is fantastical, you do have a way with words

  3. Eric Hanson on April 4th, 2009

    It’s always fun to discover a new crowd of booklovers. I’m following you on Twitter, when I’m not busy writing or reading. I think you might enjoy my book. Lots of literary anecdotes in it.

  4. Book Junky on August 12th, 2009

    Love this!!! You are hilarious. Can’t wait to read more.

  5. Sabine Solomon on September 22nd, 2009

    Kewl blog. It would be awesome if you checked out mine and also my tweets @earth_girl
    Little Toronto eco-chick makes good – including the New York Times Book Review last weekend! Very exciting. And we have the amazing Book Madame in common! Happy Reading.

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