This Changes Everything
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The page 69 Test!
Sally
Dec 17, 2013 02:38PM
The Page 69 Test: indicates that you will/will not like a book, apparently. Read pg 69, then decide if you'd like to read what comes before and after, basically, the entire book.
Here is pg 69 of "This Changes Everything," Vol. I, "The Spanners Series," which launches as an ebook this Thursday, 12/19/13 (warning: some swearing in these lines to come).Please read, then comment:
"...and entries are uncannily like mine. Or, like mine would be, if I were in that situation. She even has something like these last few entries in the Chapters she sent me.
I must have told her about it. My journal. I must have.
12/23/12
I wrote that last line today, December 23, 2012. This is my first entry since March. I meant it when I told her I don't write in my journal all that often.
I got an email from that Clara Branon today, the writer with the aliens novel. I check my email as I am waiting to board my flight to Rio for the holidays. In it, she writes,
'Hi, Espe! I hope you’re doing well and on your way to some well-earned time off and sun down south. I’m ready for our next call when you get back. Would you be willing to come over to my house, in Kirov, and bring your recording and documenting equipment, as we talked about, some time on January 3? That would be so great. I would really appreciate it. I could give you lunch or tea or something. It would take about two hours. It would really help me if I could see how it all would work and we can kind of do a "dry run," you know? What do you think?'
I get that cold tingle, again, as I read this. 'Something is up with this woman,' I think. 'What am I getting myself into?' I feel my antennae start to rise, again.
I am sitting here, feeling very weird, kind of hot, then cold, and not knowing how I want to respond to this request. On the one hand, I consider, she did tell me that some of her novel is 'real,' so maybe my coming out there with equipment and doing a 'dry run' is the 'real' part. I mean, it’s not as if I’ll have anything actually to be recording or videotaping, right? Right? RIGHT????? SHIT!
No way.
No fucking way.
Even if this were happening, how would she have been able to call me about this, about the aliens’ coming to visit her, almost a year ago, and be writing about it all this time, before it actually happens? Or seems to happen. SHIT.
She must be nuts. But she seemed so not nuts. And, Mark and Angela know her…
Clara gave me those chapters to review months ago, like, in March. Not much to read, really, just a few chapters. I reviewed them and they all seemed fine. I emailed them back to her with comments, and she used all my suggestions, even quotes I gave her. I like how she takes my feedback! Very grateful, professional.
We met for coffee in April to have our first face-to-face. Clara is an Anglo, Jewish-Buddhist (she says “Jew-Boo,” and laughs), about my mom’s age, I guess. She laughs a LOT. Kind of fat (not to be unkind, but the woman is ROUND), very short. Light blue eyes, the kind that get very light as the person ages. Curly hair, blondish and brownish, mixed, not much gray. I tell her she doesn’t look as old as my mom, who is 55. She says, kind of proudly, that she’s almost 58.
She is very tan. I ask about that and she tells me she is an outdoor swimmer, year-round. I tell her that I am impressed."
Here is pg 69 of "This Changes Everything," Vol. I, "The Spanners Series," which launches as an ebook this Thursday, 12/19/13 (warning: some swearing in these lines to come).Please read, then comment:
"...and entries are uncannily like mine. Or, like mine would be, if I were in that situation. She even has something like these last few entries in the Chapters she sent me.
I must have told her about it. My journal. I must have.
12/23/12
I wrote that last line today, December 23, 2012. This is my first entry since March. I meant it when I told her I don't write in my journal all that often.
I got an email from that Clara Branon today, the writer with the aliens novel. I check my email as I am waiting to board my flight to Rio for the holidays. In it, she writes,
'Hi, Espe! I hope you’re doing well and on your way to some well-earned time off and sun down south. I’m ready for our next call when you get back. Would you be willing to come over to my house, in Kirov, and bring your recording and documenting equipment, as we talked about, some time on January 3? That would be so great. I would really appreciate it. I could give you lunch or tea or something. It would take about two hours. It would really help me if I could see how it all would work and we can kind of do a "dry run," you know? What do you think?'
I get that cold tingle, again, as I read this. 'Something is up with this woman,' I think. 'What am I getting myself into?' I feel my antennae start to rise, again.
I am sitting here, feeling very weird, kind of hot, then cold, and not knowing how I want to respond to this request. On the one hand, I consider, she did tell me that some of her novel is 'real,' so maybe my coming out there with equipment and doing a 'dry run' is the 'real' part. I mean, it’s not as if I’ll have anything actually to be recording or videotaping, right? Right? RIGHT????? SHIT!
No way.
No fucking way.
Even if this were happening, how would she have been able to call me about this, about the aliens’ coming to visit her, almost a year ago, and be writing about it all this time, before it actually happens? Or seems to happen. SHIT.
She must be nuts. But she seemed so not nuts. And, Mark and Angela know her…
Clara gave me those chapters to review months ago, like, in March. Not much to read, really, just a few chapters. I reviewed them and they all seemed fine. I emailed them back to her with comments, and she used all my suggestions, even quotes I gave her. I like how she takes my feedback! Very grateful, professional.
We met for coffee in April to have our first face-to-face. Clara is an Anglo, Jewish-Buddhist (she says “Jew-Boo,” and laughs), about my mom’s age, I guess. She laughs a LOT. Kind of fat (not to be unkind, but the woman is ROUND), very short. Light blue eyes, the kind that get very light as the person ages. Curly hair, blondish and brownish, mixed, not much gray. I tell her she doesn’t look as old as my mom, who is 55. She says, kind of proudly, that she’s almost 58.
She is very tan. I ask about that and she tells me she is an outdoor swimmer, year-round. I tell her that I am impressed."
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