#storysettings #AirportOrPlane Huge bestseller back in the day, and a major motion picture!
pick#StorySettings Day 3: #AirportOrPlane - posting in advance because will be in an airport and plane (3 in total) tomorrow as we travel Abu Dhabi ➡️ Doha ➡️ Oslo ➡️ Bodø just like tomorrow‘s prompt. Over and above this picturebook providing a detailed description of what to expect in airports, the “diverse” element is a given rather than explicitly articulated or pounded over the head of the reader. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-dfD
1. I chose my own name! My birth name started to feel childish to me and had other associations I didn't like. I chose Willa for a number of associations but one is in honor of my theater teacher, whose name is Wilma. Though I utterly hate when anyone calls me Wilma. 😁
2. IIRC, I read the tagged book on my 40th birthday, and it put the name “Willa“ into my mind.
1. According to Mom, no. But it was a trending girl name in the 1950s. The internet says: As a variation of the French chérie, Sherry means "darling," placing it as the very definition of a most beloved person. I‘m good with that?
2. The tagged author is named Sherri
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pickReading this book in public was problematic. It's very tense and emotional. I highly recommend it.
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pickAfter reading and enjoying her, Drowning, I went back to read this, her first. While it wasn‘t as tightly crafted, Newman can certainly provide a thrill-ride.
Pilot Bill Hoffman has been asked to be substitute pilot for a flight to New York. His family is then taken hostage. They‘ll die if he doesn‘t agree to crash the plane. Newman gives us evil doers that are real, complex with understandable motives. Read it in one sitting.
