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Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful
By Regina Barreca Bibliopola Press 2000 Paperback ISBN#: 093988306-6 |
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In this wise and witty collection of essays, Regina Barreca brings alive the moments in her life that, while unique to her, speak to each of us. She shares stories about the fun loving Italian aunts who taught her to dance, the young man she followed to London and the truths she learned about herself during that youthful sojourn, the mysterious scrap of a family letter she found, her mother's French Canadian roots, and her own hysterectomy. These are stories that make us laugh out loud, that teach us about family, and friends and love. Written with honesty and humor, they offer a clear-eyed look at modern life. |
| ~If our fear of gluttony is the fear of wanting too much, then our fear of greed is the fear of wanting it all. Even the most enthusiastic of gluttons achieves satiation after the eighteenth Whopper or the fourteenth Ring Ding and then falls asleep. Greed never sleeps; the ordinarily greedy make money in their dreams and the successfully greedy make money even while they dream. |
| --From "Greed" |
| ~The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way. |
| --From "Just Like Home" |
| ~I grew up falling in love with every professor I ever had, including the ones who looked like extras from the bar scene in Star Wars. There was no common denominator between them except for the fact that they stood up in front of the classrooms where I sat, patient among rows of similarly enthralled and ripely under-age students. |
| --From "After the Fall" |
| ~When I explained to my father (using the exasperated tone of voice particular to those world-weary souls who have yet to look twenty in the eye) that my college boyfriend was dropping out of school because he "wanted to paint," my father's brief and insightful response was "Yeah? Is somebody trying to stop him?" |
| --From "Writing" |
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