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Gabrielle Zevin

  • Лика Меликсетянhar citeretsidste år
    “I think you mean a public failure. Because we all fail in private. I failed with you, for example, but no one posted an online review about it, unless you did. I fail with my wife and with my son. I fail in my work every day, but I keep turning over the problems until I’m not failing anymore. But public failures are different, it’s true.”
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    She can usually find something positive to say about a book or, failing that, the cover or, failing that, the author or, failing that, the author’s website
  • Katihar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    bona fide alcoholic.”
  • Katihar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    “Someone stole Tamerlane,” A.J. says.

    “What’s Tamerlane?”

    “It’s a book. It’s a very valuable book.”

    “To clarify. You mean someone shoplifted a book from the store.”

    “No. It was my book from my personal collection. It is an extremely rare collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe.”
  • Katihar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    She asks A.J. about his lifestyle. He answers the question truthfully. “I’m not what you’d call an alcoholic, but I do like to drink until I pass out at least once a week. I smoke occasionally and I subsist on a diet of frozen entrees. I rarely floss. I used to be a long-distance runner, but now I don’t exercise at all. I live alone and I lack meaningful personal relationships. Since my wife died, I hate my work, too.”
  • Katihar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    Do you want to die?”

    A response doesn’t immediately occur to him.

    “Because if you really want to die, I can put you under psychiatric observation.”

    “I don’t want to die,” A.J. says after a bit. “I just find it difficult to be here all the time. Do you think I’m crazy?”
  • Katihar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    feeling under the weather
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    Come, thou monarch of the vine
  • Katihar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    in combination with the sedative is mellowing
  • Katihar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    My wife’s sister, Ismay, teaches at the high school
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