Word: blissed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge, Kaysen typically spends mornings working at her electric typewriter, with Miss Bliss, her tabby, curled up nearby. She sporadically sees a psychologist she refers to as "my tune-up woman." Money is no longer a problem; the rights to the book have already been optioned to Hollywood. Still, literary success doesn't bring everything. Kaysen was divorced in her 20s, and she confides, "The best-seller list doesn't get you a date, so don't hope...
...about domestic dreams, about a hope for better days that flies above the characters as brightly and vulnerably as Tietou's favorite blue kite. The rhythms of this family -- the meals and arguments, the worries about money and the sweet moments when a put- upon mom finds bliss playing with her bright child -- are handsomely observed and beautifully played. In Lu, Tian found one of those perfect faces from which emotion rises spontaneously, acutely and eloquently...
...about domestic dreams, about a hope for better days that flies above the characters as brightly and vulnerably as Tietou's favorite blue kite. The rhythms of this family -- the ; meals and arguments, the worries about money and the sweet moments when a put- upon mom finds bliss playing with her bright child -- are handsomely observed and beautifully played. In Lu, Tian found one of those perfect faces from which emotion rises spontaneously, acutely and eloquently...
Some love stories have happy endings, surviving even the first-year formal. "Things went very well, and we've been going out since the week before the formal," sighs one lovestruck junior. Despite this seeming bliss, the man refused to leave his name, so perhaps all is not peaches and cream. "Things are weird right now. Our relationship is very up in the air," he says...
...sheer bliss...