英语读书笔记-Book Lovers Day 09

Part 1

1. He might as well be standing under a movie-theater marquee advertising THE OUT-OF-TOWNER with an arrow pointed straight at his peppery hair.
2. Considering how short, not mention asinine, my message was, he takes a surprisingly long time to reply.
3. I nearly drop my phone in my frenzy to open the next message.
4. When my boss is having a rocky day.
5. It would be unethical to share the manuscript outside the agency.
6. But the author actually included a link to his website, where a handful of self-published novellas are available for purchase.
7. If my professionalism is a gel manicure, then Charlie is apparently the industrial-grade acetone capable of burning right through it.
8. I am famished.
9. We’re sitting at the rough-hewn wooden table in the cottage, devouring the breadsticks and salads we ordered from Antonio’s Pizza.
10. I nod and stab a surprisingly juicy tomato in the salad, popping it into my mouth.
11. I think that’s the one possibility we can rule out.

Part 2

1. You think forty minutes is enough to make up for the three weeks of Bea crawling into bed with us after a nightmare
2. I wince.
3. You can’t sleep next to them without waking drenched in sweat, with a tiny, adorable foot digging into your rib cage.
4. I feel a spark of relief right then. Because the change in Libby-- the fatigue, the strange, intangible distance -----suddenly makes sense.
5. One bathroom, for a family of five, is my idea of purgatory.
6. She used to allow herself one night to lean into that feeling.
7. That’s how I wound up with Nora Katharine Stephens.
8. The “Baby” part being after the leopard in Bringing Up Baby.
9. I’m such a softy.
10. They taught me that heartbreak, like most things, was a solvable puzzle.
11. Weeding out the assholes.
12. She was saddled with kids when she was little more than one herself.
13. I expected my sister to fall in love a dozen times over be swept off her feet over and over again for decades.
14. I, meanwhile, had approximately on romantic bone in my body, and once it shattered and I pinned myself back together.