Oh, I should have added: He goes "The pickle ball circuit was a lot easier when it was just old ladies playing. Now you got all these young athletes coming over from tennis. I don't win as much as I used to."
My preordered copy arrived yesterday in Switzerland 🥳 and I have put it aside for when I go on break in Portugal one week from tomorrow, like a special treat. Can’t wait!
My fiancé and I spent all day traveling and I was switching back and forth between audiobook and kindle, not talking to him, and finally he goes: “how many books are you reading?” “One.” Then we got home, and the hardcover was delivered, and I said, “This is the one I finished today LOOK AT THAT COVER.” 😆 It was excellent, and also, I want to marry Julia Whelan.
I just started yesterday, and so immediately got a kick of your description of your exchange with the Uber Driver in relation to your exchange with the cab driver to Granby. I'm hoping to review the book for Gay & Lesbian Review and have already been writing down favorite lines. (There may already be a review in the pipeline, I'm checking.) In relation to the recent discussion of setting, I was extremely impressed by this extremely deft comparison: "I needed to keep Granby pristine. Indiana was a place where bad things happened; Granby had to be a place where nothing could hurt me." If I was teaching you, I would spend 15 minutes on the beautiful economy of that sentence, which reveals so much with a few strokes of geographical shorthand.
I am filling so many pages of a little notebook with favorite lines like that.
So glad that the fates didn't have you schedule Southern California this drenched weekend, but maybe Jerome took the kids skiing! (Those are Bodie's, not Rebecca's kids.)
And to think on your last book tour, pickleball didn't even exist! Looking forward to the Dallas Museum of Art event this week, which I'll be attending via zoom.
Thanks for sharing. Wow, what a tour! Missed you at the Center for Fiction: presented there a few days before your event. If I'd planned ahead of time, I would have prolonged my stay in Brooklyn! Am both reading the book and listening on Audible. Love it!
Very happy for you, Rebecca. Just finished the audiobook. I had to listen to the last three hours at one go. I loved the structure you used. No wonder the book world was atizzy in advance. 💯no notes.
I burned through the audio book and absolutely loved it. Let that cancel out the iffy Goodreads review and revel in the New Yorker piece. (If only it worked that way!)
Missed you in Brooklyn, my bad. But, great shoes "not made for walkin, cause this is what I do....." Can't embed picture of proper book signing shoes here, so refer to my Twitter. Congrats on Pub Day.
Oh, I should have added: He goes "The pickle ball circuit was a lot easier when it was just old ladies playing. Now you got all these young athletes coming over from tennis. I don't win as much as I used to."
My preordered copy arrived yesterday in Switzerland 🥳 and I have put it aside for when I go on break in Portugal one week from tomorrow, like a special treat. Can’t wait!
I am thrilled for your success, R but also thank you on behalf of all the other authors to mention how awful a bad review can feel on G**dR**ds
Here to counteract that lame Goodreads review with a rave
My fiancé and I spent all day traveling and I was switching back and forth between audiobook and kindle, not talking to him, and finally he goes: “how many books are you reading?” “One.” Then we got home, and the hardcover was delivered, and I said, “This is the one I finished today LOOK AT THAT COVER.” 😆 It was excellent, and also, I want to marry Julia Whelan.
Don't worry about your clothes. You could wear a Walmart bathrobe and those shoes and everyone would still think you're the coolest writer around.
I just started yesterday, and so immediately got a kick of your description of your exchange with the Uber Driver in relation to your exchange with the cab driver to Granby. I'm hoping to review the book for Gay & Lesbian Review and have already been writing down favorite lines. (There may already be a review in the pipeline, I'm checking.) In relation to the recent discussion of setting, I was extremely impressed by this extremely deft comparison: "I needed to keep Granby pristine. Indiana was a place where bad things happened; Granby had to be a place where nothing could hurt me." If I was teaching you, I would spend 15 minutes on the beautiful economy of that sentence, which reveals so much with a few strokes of geographical shorthand.
I am filling so many pages of a little notebook with favorite lines like that.
So glad that the fates didn't have you schedule Southern California this drenched weekend, but maybe Jerome took the kids skiing! (Those are Bodie's, not Rebecca's kids.)
And to think on your last book tour, pickleball didn't even exist! Looking forward to the Dallas Museum of Art event this week, which I'll be attending via zoom.
Thanks for sharing. Wow, what a tour! Missed you at the Center for Fiction: presented there a few days before your event. If I'd planned ahead of time, I would have prolonged my stay in Brooklyn! Am both reading the book and listening on Audible. Love it!
Very happy for you, Rebecca. Just finished the audiobook. I had to listen to the last three hours at one go. I loved the structure you used. No wonder the book world was atizzy in advance. 💯no notes.
Thanks for keeping us updated on the process. It's fun to follow along!
I burned through the audio book and absolutely loved it. Let that cancel out the iffy Goodreads review and revel in the New Yorker piece. (If only it worked that way!)
Missed you in Brooklyn, my bad. But, great shoes "not made for walkin, cause this is what I do....." Can't embed picture of proper book signing shoes here, so refer to my Twitter. Congrats on Pub Day.
Philippe