'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. Cathleen Schine More Quotes by Cathleen Schine More Quotes From Cathleen Schine a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains. Cathleen Schine gonelettersmean Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising? Cathleen Schine life-is-full-of-surprisessurpriselife-is The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush. Cathleen Schine wild-rosesmorningsweet Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye. Cathleen Schine tweeteagleseye I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than a desk and better designed for naps. It is the center of all good things. And day or night, everyone knows where to find me. Cathleen Schine napsnightbook Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames. Cathleen Schine flameslettersfall Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons. Cathleen Schine smartmothersex One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. Cathleen Schine testiclesreadingjewels Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the word LAUGH is linguistically related to chickens and pie? This is the book that any of us who urgently, passionately love words-to read them, roll them over the tongue and learn their life stories while laughing and eating chicken and pie-were lucky enough to be born to read. Cathleen Schine piewritingbook All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight. Cathleen Schine wallmindyears ... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, she was no longer at the center of theirs. Cathleen Schine mother-and-sonmother-sonmen Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book. Cathleen Schine using-meusebook I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read. Cathleen Schine newnevermyselfthirty Good TV is not just TV about good behavior. Cathleen Schine aboutjustgoodbehavior I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though? Cathleen Schine onlineshoppingresearchblessing 'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong. Cathleen Schine wrongaboutintelligencecomplicated I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.' Cathleen Schine thosecallusedchildren If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else. Cathleen Schine understandyoureadingtime In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil. Cathleen Schine aftercareerscholarnotes A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think. Cathleen Schine tenthi-thinkthinkplenty
