![]() ![]() ![]() David donates the children's surplus toys to charity and asks them to adopt the uncool kids at school as their friends their son, Tom, hates this, but his sister, Molly, develops an alarmingly patronizing friendship with a smelly little girl named Hope. ![]() He gives money away, stops writing his column, organizes housing for the homeless (inconveniently enough, with neighbors whose houses have empty rooms) and invites GoodNews to move in. When GoodNews lays his hands on David, he suddenly becomes loving, concerned and utterly humorless. To spite her after an argument in which she suggests that they divorce, he goes to a dreadlocked faith-healer named DJ GoodNews. ![]() Unfortunately for her, she gets her wish when David, a bitter, semi-employed intellectual who writes a column for a local newspaper subtitled "The Angriest Man in Holloway," becomes a secular saint. After more than 20 years of marriage and two children, Katie has had it: she's having an affair, feels intellectually dull and wishes her husband, David, would turn into a different person. In Hornby's ( High Fidelity About a Boy) hilarious novel, the problem of goodness is dumped on Dr. "Good" characters in novels are notoriously hard to create, not because goodness is uninteresting, but because when it's uncontaminated by self-interest it isn't plausible, especially in a comedy. ![]()
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Me Talk Pretty One Day – By David SedarisĪt the age of forty-one, I am returning to school and have to think of myself as what my French textbook calls “a true debutant.” After paying my tuition, I was issued a student ID, which allows me a discounted entry fee at movie theaters, puppet shows, and Festyland, a far-flung amusement park that advertises with billboards picturing a cartoon stegosaurus sitting in a canoe and eating what appears to be a ham sandwich. ![]() ![]() ![]() And this inner world, for most of us, is as chaotic as ocean waves during a storm.īoth Freud and Jung called this undifferentiated chaos the unconscious. This conventional, outer world has structure and order.īut within us is an entirely different world. The conventional code holds specific guidelines of what we should believe, what things mean, and how we should behave. 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On a single day last December, a tropical Christmas trip quickly became a less-than-festive scratchathon after a glut of bites arrived, following which I was stung by jellyfish, then wasps. ![]() Whether at home or abroad, when mosquitoes begin their hunt for blood I am reminded, via a blanket of red blotches that have more than once swelled to the size of a golf ball, that mine is a godlike nectar. T he earliest signs of summer herald my annual metamorphosis – from woman to lifesize pincushion. ![]() ![]() Henry is the author of Bacchanal and, in the Mambo Reina series, The Quarter Storm and The Foreign Exchange. ![]() Henry £3.29 Product description Review About the Author Veronica G. Henry (6,098) £0.99 2 The Foreign Exchange: A Novel (Mambo Reina Book 2) Veronica G. As a killer wields dangerous magic to thwart Reina’s investigation, she must tap into the strength of her own power and faith to solve a mystery that threatens to destroy her entire way of life. 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