Is he annoyed? Why should he be?ĭeclan indicates left for the estate. Aidan has a feeling of some kind, but he doesn’t know what the feeling is. Outside the windows, the darkness is punctuated only by passing headlights and, far up in the hills, the flickering lights of houses, hidden and revealed through the leaves of trees. He says that someone called Michael never got back to him about something and Pauline says, Oh, Michael will be there, don’t worry. She takes out her phone and starts looking for a photograph to show him. Declan asks her when she’s heading off to Paris and she tells him. He listens to them as if they are performing a play and he is the only audience member. She and Declan start talking instead, about people and events that have nothing to do with Aidan. She doesn’t speak to him again for the rest of the journey.
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And she stops looking at him and turns around again. Is she looking at him just to show him her face, the face of a screenwriter? When she speaks, her voice sounds totally different. She has a pale forehead and her lips are pale, so her mouth appears as one delicate line. Why is she looking at him like this? Her face is expressionless.
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In fact she stares at him, right into his eyes, for two or three seconds without speaking, maybe even four full seconds, a very long time. Why wouldn’t I?įor a few seconds she says nothing, but in the darkness and silence of the car she looks at him.
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He is alarmed, feeling that he has offended her and that Declan will be angry with him later. Her hair, he notices, is pulled back from her forehead by a wide velveteen band. The woman, whose name is apparently Pauline, unexpectedly swivels around to look at him. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn (182p)Īnd anything written by Roald Dahl The Witches (208p) and Matilda (240p) are my favourites.For some reason Aidan does not wish to seem surprised by this knowledge, though he doesn’t think he’s ever been in a car with a screenwriter before. The Longest Memory – Fred d’Aguiar (144p)
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The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (131p) Boston (128p)īambert’s Book of Missing Stories – Reinhardt Jung (128p) The Lilies of the Field – William Edmund Barrett (127p) Here’s some more from my own read shelves (surprisingly, many classics who says they need to be bricks to pack a punch?): My TBR pile has become a tower since I read your book and discovered your blog, Anne! Heavens, I’m trying to bump my page count up over 20 500 this year, but all these short and sweet recommended reads will be great ‘palate cleansers’ between big books. Those same books would take me a week or more to read during the school year, when I’m busy, work too many hours, and am too mentally exhausted to process words at the end of a day. Because of the main character’s faith, the romance in this novel is relatively innocent and comes down to a question of the standards she will hold for herself and the vision she has for her future.Īs a teacher, a lot of my books are read in 1-2 days during the summer. If you don’t like YA, this one probably won’t change your mind, but it’s sort of refreshing for the genre in the sense that it focuses on an American Muslim heroine dealing with big-deal issues like sexual assault while also exploring interfaith dating, bullying, and family changes.
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I would recommend it for readers who like YA. I can’t stop thinking about it.Īnd the next day, I read the YA novel Saints & Misfits in about 8 (often interrupted) hours. I didn’t set out to read An American Marriage in a single day, but that definitely happened last week.