Broken

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Una buona storia: che sarebbe anche migliore se Winslow evitasse di flirtare col lettore e non si ostinasse a voler fare motti di spirito, che gli vengono così così, non c’è nulla da fare.

My choices seem to be to either shank the person who is making me scared or get rid of all my fluids so I can run faster. I sat out in the sun on my little balcony with coffee in my very comfortable Adirondack chair and ripped through these stories like a bullet through soggy drywall. This story also features an anti-hero, a gentleman jewel thief who is looking for one last score before shutting it all down. Broken του Don Winslow,έξι υπέροχα διηγήματα με ανθρώπους του νόμου που δοκιμάστηκαν οι αντοχές τους και ανταπεξήλθαν με αμφιλεγόμενο τρόπο.And as Lawson notes in her book, she has to fight her insurance company on covering the medications and other treatments she needs that are often deemed "unnecessary" or too costly. It's a classic cat and mouse game between the clever crook planning the million dollar heist that'll allow him to retire and the canny police detective on his trail. So they feel duty-bound to save their erstwhile partners in the proposed business venture, with markedly mixed results. Along with the side-splitting, sometimes implausible, yet entirely true mishaps she relates, are also some sobering chapters that deal more intimately with her issues with anxiety and other illnesses, both mental and physical; along with her battles with medical professionals and dastardly insurance companies to get the help she needs. If you need a cry-laugh, a laugh-cry (and let's face it, you could probably use at least one of those!

Jenny Lawson is back with her honest and funny look at life, including chronic illness, marriage, depression, rats, and more. There are lists of mortifying things she’s said, mortifying things strangers have done and tweeted to her, and mortifying corrections she’s received from her editors. Paradise" is about a trio of pot grower/dealers looking for a new base in Hawaii, facing off against the locals. Crime 101" is about a successful thief trying to stay one step ahead of the law by avoiding patterns, but it too tempted by a big final score?This collection is aimed boldly and squarely at two groups of readers: folks who have been with Winslow from the very beginning of his fiction-writing career (or have come to him at a later point and hastened to fill in the gaps) and those who are unfamiliar with or only marginally aware of his work. That is, if your brand of humor includes things like toddler-sized tiny condoms for your dog to use as boots, buttworms, and bearcat hot buttered pee.