the mistakes are so noticeable and so upsetting. But smudges and all, "Dinner at
the Homesick Restaurant" remains closest to my heart, probably because I feel that it
says most about how I feel families work, and how they don't work."
Anne Tyler
"Nina Stibbe's "Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home" -- another surprise, first because
it's nonfiction, which ordinarily I avoid, and second because it's a book of letters,
which I really avoid. But it's funny and intelligent and irreverent, and the author
keeps confessing the most egregious trespasses without batting an eye. I
actually read it twice over, just because I wanted to figure out how she carried it off,
but I still don't know."
Anne Tyler
print, including appliance manuals. When people spoke to me, I read their words
running across a sort of ticker tape at the bottom of my mind's eye....The book I loved
most, the one I must have devoured at least a dozen times, was "Little Women."
"I longed for old age, when I would be allowed to stay sunk in a book for 12 hours
straight, uninterrupted by grown-ups asking me to feed the chickens or set the table.
I didn't know then that when you're old, neither your back nor your eyes allow you to
read for 12 hours straight."
Anne Tyler
book that was given me on my fourth birthday: Virginia Lee Burton's " The Little House."
I remember the first time my mother read it to me --how its message about the
irreversible passage of time instantly hit home. From then on, I seem to have
had a constant awareness of the fact that nothing lasts forever, and that someday I would miss what I was now taking for granted. That's a valuable insight to go through life with."
Anne Tyler
then I found out that several of my women friends considered Healthcliff their
all-time favorite romantic hero. So I read about three-quarters of it as a grown-up,
and immediately developed some serious concerns about the mental health of my
friends."
Anne Tyler
by bit I found I couldn't do without them, and I replaced nearly all of them."
Anne Tyler