Weiner and devotees bond at Nyc reading

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Jennifer Weiner had so much to share with her readers. The writer of such bestsellers as "Goodnight Nobody" and "In Her Shoes" discussed before around 100 devotees Tuesday at a Barnes & Noble on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "She is really relatable, particularly for young women," said Shira Zeif, 32, a kindergarten teacher. "She gets really private with her characters and you feel like you understand her, too." Weiner is in a good area as her followers on Twitter would have previously discovered. "All Fall Down" has received strong reviews, with her hometown Philadelphia Inquirer calling it her best, and is in the top 40 on Amazon.com. The new book, Weiner explained Tuesday, tells of a woman who seemingly has everything -- a large house, a husband and daughter, growing fame as a blogger -- yet finds herself increasingly sad, hooked on painkillers and eventually driven to get clean at a rehabilitation center. It was a storyline so wrenching that her usual happy so https://www.alutechalu.com/good-price-for-air-force-one-low-mr-cartoon-black-white.html.utions were dropped by Weiner for a more ambiguous conclusion. "You can not pick up a paper or a magazine without the problem slapping you in the face," said Weiner, who spoke on stage with Hoda Kotb of NBC's "Today's Talk." But, naturally, the book is, in addition, personal. She noted that her family has a "boatload of mental illness" and talked about her father, who left when Weiner was a teen, saying he needed to be a "interesting uncle" instead. Years afterwards, she would receive a call from authorities in Connecticut advising her that her daddy had been using crack and heroin, had expired and, to her shock. "He is not a jazz musician," Weiner remembered thinking. "He is a Jewish psychiatrist." Virtually all girls, the crowd, laughed, commiserated and rooted for her. They loved the story of the way in which a devastating breakup inspired her to compose her debut novel, "Good in Bed," and how she got a contract with Simon & Schuster after numerous rejections. When the mother of two children, Weiner, spoke of adjusting her writing time they nodded in empathy. They have followed her very public effort to get more girls reviewed in New York Times and other newspapers and magazines, and applauded when Weiner revealed that The Times, which had long dismissed her work, would be praising "All Fall Down." Interviewed by The Associated Press after the big event, W NIKE Free POWERLINES 2.ine Nike Free Everyday. said that when she first gave readings she supposed about 12 individuals would show up, "eight of them girls she knew from Weight Watchers." She has alutechalu.ong learned not only to make peace with recognition, but to thrive on it, whether tweeting live updates about "The Bachelor" or fretting about what critics think of her. She doesn't view social media and marketing tours as distractions from Nike Free Run 3.her work, but as extensions of it, an on-going dialogue between herself and her lovers. "They feel like they understand me, and in a way they do," Weiner, 44, told the AP. "Lots of times, I feel like I am speaking to some bunch of folks I went to summer camp with."