英语读书笔记-Book Lovers Day 10
Part 1
- I developed a rigorous vetting process for dating.
- It’s only 6 o’clock, but we change into pajamas - including our silk robes.
- I find two speckled blue mugs in the cabinet.
- Matching charcoal sheet masks plastered to our faces.
- She heaves a happy sigh.
- My heart twinges.
- When Libby sees the lackluster town square for the first time.
- When she drifts off.
- My phone chirps with a new email around 10 pm.
- I’ve been sitting on the back deck, willing myself to feel tired and nursing a glass of the velvety Pinot Sally Goode.
- I’m more like an insomniac who just mixed a bunch of cocaine into some Red Bull and took a spin on a mechanical bull
- I tried to work, but the WI-FI’s so bad that my laptop is a glorified paperweight.
- Instead CHARLIE is bolded at the top of my in-box. I tap the message open and barely avoid a spit take.
- Dusty’s portrayal of Sunshine Falls.
- Charlie planned a visit during publishing’s annual late-summer hibernation I can’t bring myself to broach the subject.
Part 2
- And I already need an exorcism.
- As soon as I’ve sent it, I have to marvel-slash-panic at my own unprofessionalism.
- And let my thoughts charge out like velociraptors.
- I think I remember seeing that endorsement on the cover.
- I stare at the screen’s hash glow.
- Moths keep darting in front of it, and in the woods, I can hear cicadas humming, an owl hooting.
- I’ve worked with her for years, and she does best with positive reinforcement.
- Which is how Dusty’s editor was able to take Once from good to outrageously unputdownable.
- I scoff, No one calls me that, I don’t think.
- And make editorial suggestions.
- I huff, I don’t revel in exsanguination.
- I have some clients who are sharks themselves------eager to fire off accusatory emails when they feel neglected by their publishers.
- But most of them are more likely to get steamrolled, or to keep their complaints to themselves until their resentment boils over and they self-destruct in spectacular fashion.
- Indignation flames through me.