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Danny Lavery
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Kirkus thinks you should read Women's Hotel!
"Lavery has a wonderful ear for a period turn-of-phrase and his prose glitters with humor and affection for human foibles...Readers will be hard-pressed not to read sections aloud to passersby."
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Danny Lavery
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Kirkus thinks you should read Women's Hotel!
"Lavery has a wonderful ear for a period turn-of-phrase and his prose glitters with humor and affection for human foibles...Readers will be hard-pressed not to read sections aloud to passersby."
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Danny Lavery
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listen! Barnes & Noble is having a pre-order sale for my novel Women's Hotel (out in October).
Get a copy by 7/17 for 25% off! It is fun and you will like it, like a piece of cake that is not too small
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/womens-hot...
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Danny Lavery
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Emma, Part II
EMMA: I think Harriet’s coming along really nicely
MR ELTON [looking up from his book so quickly his jaw clicks]: oh honey I love her
you built her
Her, her, her slender and elongated dorsal tail
the delicate freshness of her scales
www.thechatner.com/p/emma-part-ii
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Emma
MR KNIGHTLEY: “She thinks she’s helping” is top of Emma’s list of faults again this year
MRS WESTON: She does always think she’s helping
MR KNIGHTLEY: Yes. That’s why I put it at the top of the list. That hat doesn’t suit you. Goodbye
www.thechatner.com/p/emma
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"They did not kiss one another goodbye. After seven years of marriage they would have considered such day-time demonstration queer, not to say offensive."
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The Best Read of the Summer is Edna Ferber's 1933 "They Brought Their Women":
“Her clothes! You don’t need her clothes!” cried Otto, full of class hatred and beer.
www.thechatner.com/p/the-best-r...
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Romulus and Remus Debrief
ROMULUS: What are the two things everybody knows about us?
REMUS: I don’t think it’s healthy to assume everyone knows us --
ROMULUS: One, that we’re twins. Two, that we know what dog milk tastes like.
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Danny Lavery
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back in April Bookforum published a review of Lucas Rijneveld's "My Heavenly Favorite" where the reviewer discussed the trans author's birth assignment at great length, as though it provided moral/artistic justification for the subject. I disliked this!
www.thechatner.com/p/my-first-l...
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ROMAN I: Oh, Dying Gaul, we love you — get up — ! ROMAN II: Sculpting’s very hard, you know. As soon as it starts to look like people I start crying, every time.
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ROMAN I: And where do they live? Deranged, impossible places: Aeolia. “Mytilene.” Commagene…Sardinia… Gaul, obviously…Rustics and knaves. And they wear mustaches.
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ROMAN II: and as you can see I’ve depicted him nude here —
ROMAN I: except for the splendid torc ringed around his neck?
ROMAN II: Yes, nude except for the splendid stiff torc around his powerful neck
TWO ROMANS SCULPT "THE DYING GAUL"
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I thought I knew my dog, but running around in a backyard has demented his mind with too much joy. Now he respects neither law, nor loyalty, nor love: He cares only for Backyard.
www.thechatner.com/p/the-coward...
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What Am I Feeling Today? Horse sense, nixtamalization, or chiropractic adjustment?
www.thechatner.com/p/what-am-i-...
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ADMIRAL CROFT: where to take wife in Bath
socially appropriate to take walks with wife in city
legal to spend time with wife?
can wives and husbands be friends in England
wife is right wife is nice
Jane Austen's Persuasion, Part V
www.thechatner.com/p/jane-auste...
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“There was no need for Charlotte to remain at home. Her father’s ill health was simply a convenient excuse.”
"Miss Brontë often went to bed all day."
"It is curious that Emily ever gained the reputation for being sympathetic."
www.thechatner.com/p/every-time...
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“There was no need for Charlotte to remain at home. Her father’s ill health was simply a convenient excuse.”
"Miss Brontë often went to bed all day."
"It is curious that Emily ever gained the reputation for being sympathetic."
www.thechatner.com/p/every-time...
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MARY MUSGROVE: D̶e̶a̶r̶ Anne:
Having fine time in Lyme
Louisa not dead after all
I am allowed to eat dinner first because no one has a more important father than me
Persuasion, Part IV and a Memorial Day sale
www.thechatner.com/p/jane-auste...
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Dogs only want one thing, and that's to lick the baby: How I wage an unending battle of wills against the dogs in my home from achieving their only goal
www.thechatner.com/p/dogs-only-...
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Jane Austen's Persuasion, Part III
ANNE ELLIOT: Not at all
[To herself] This is terrific. Now he doesn’t have as much furniture as before
www.thechatner.com/p/jane-auste...
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Danny Lavery
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still thinking about what made Challengers so fun for me…it’s like if Amadeus had two Salieris in it and they got married to each other, which did nothing to solve their problem of hating Mozart
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Danny Lavery
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he briefly co-directed the high school production of Lost In Yonkers where i played Grandma Kurnitz back in '03. he was great!
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Sir Thomas the uncle? or Edmund’s older brother? I can’t hardly remember them talking but I’m open to it
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Danny Lavery
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I will never hear a word against Casaubon
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Danny Lavery
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“Emma” is a really fun book about an incredibly thoughtless woman who marries her conscience. It’s like if Pinocchio married Jiminy Cricket. the reason everyone gets mad at Mansfield Park is because it’s like if Jiminy Cricket married his own Jiminy Cricket
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MARY [Bursting merrily into the room, full of breakfast and malice]: Captain Wentworth said you look different and I do NOT think it was a compliment!
Jane Austen's Persuasion
www.thechatner.com/p/jane-auste...
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Danny Lavery
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The Stages of Drinking From A Bottle, According To Our Month-Old Son:
I need milk I need MILK you son of a bitch ill kill you
there’s something there that’s something let me see it you damn rascal
www.thechatner.com/p/the-stages...
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REBECCA: How do you manage it, Charlotte? Most mornings I barely have the energy to contemplate suicide.
CHARLOTTE: I’ve got no time for suicide, Rebecca. I’d never get anything done!
www.thechatner.com/p/tonight-on...
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Murder Most Noticeable!
CHARLOTTE: Oh, Chief Goshen? There seems to be something you’ve overlooked on the floor...much as you’re overlooking me now.
The SHERIFF and DETECTIVE look at one another, abashed. You should never overlook CHARLOTTE QUERYABLE.
www.thechatner.com/p/tonight-on...
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HENRY CRAWFORD: She really just suffers beautifully, you know? And a husband can make a woman suffer in so many more interesting ways than an aunt.
www.thechatner.com/p/mansfield-...
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HENRY CRAWFORD: She really just suffers beautifully, you know? And a husband can make a woman suffer in so many more interesting ways than an aunt.
www.thechatner.com/p/mansfield-...
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I can't even get annoyed he's so cute it's funny when he spits up on me! but it's only been three weeks so ask me again in a few months
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“How to Win Brothers and Influence Cousins,” Fanny Price
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MARY CRAWFORD: Edmund, hi! We were just practicing heterosexuality. Thank God you’re here so we don’t have to do that anymore
FANNY: Oh! Is that what female friendship is?
Because I really hate it, if so
MANSFIELD PARK, Part III www.thechatner.com/p/mansfield-...
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yes but at that point I won't be doing his laundry so it'll be his problem
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Danny Lavery
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So far so good shoulder-wise! fingers crossed
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Danny Lavery
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our son is so cute i don’t even mind doing six hundred loads of laundry every day
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he also loves to spit up when i play Tammy Wynette
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things I've learned from having a baby for two weeks now: gotta do some laundry laundry time it's time for laundry better believe it's laundry day laundry for son
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Danny Lavery
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thank you — I feel the same way!
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Danny Lavery
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“It was the end of the continental breakfast, and therefore the beginning of the end of everything else." You can't go wrong, in my opinion, by starting your first novel with the question, What are all the characters eating for breakfast? So that's what I've done.
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Danny Lavery
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The cover for Women's Hotel, my debut novel, is out today! (The book itself comes out October 15th.) Looks pretty good to me...good enough to pre-order, perhaps from Barnes & Noble this week for 25% off...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/womens-hot...
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Danny Lavery
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The cover for Women's Hotel, my debut novel, is out today! (The book itself comes out October 15th.) Looks pretty good to me...good enough to pre-order, perhaps from Barnes & Noble this week for 25% off...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/womens-hot...
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Danny Lavery
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well well well...tomorrow looks like a pretty good day for a cover reveal for Daniel Lavery's debut novel, WOMEN'S HOTEL, pub. 10/15/24...watch this space...
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JULIA: Fanny I wanted to ask you
what condition, exactly, is it that you have,
where you’re not strong enough to walk
but you are medically required to ride a horse every six hours?
FANNY: the doctors said I lack horse
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I gave them each a tiny bit of yogurt which they consider an acceptable compromise for now
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Danny Lavery
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our baby is really cute. i like him. and the dogs are soooo mad that we won’t let them lick him
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Danny Lavery
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me and Lily and Grace had a baby ❤️named him Rocco
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MRS. PRICE: Too many children
Too many children Portsmouth help
Mail son away
Send son away via mail
Send son East or somewhere via post office legal
How mail son to relatives who hate me
Cheaper to mail away son or daughter?
Mansfield Park
www.thechatner.com/p/mansfield-...
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How To Tell If You're In A Late Eighteenth-Century Novel
Lady Modish Misbehavior has come to praise you and Lady Townly to invite you to a masquerade. With them comes Lady Highgood. She has come to scold you!
www.thechatner.com/p/how-to-tel...
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