Summary This book tells a story about a woman, who's husband had just died. Holly, the main character, is trying to get on with her life after the death of her husband Gerry. They were happily married for 12 years. A few months before Gerry's death, they found out that he had a brain tumor and he was hospitalized. Holly always stayed beside him, she quit her job so she could spend all her time with Gerry. Before his death Gerry wrote 10 letters, in them he guides Holly and helps her rediscover herself. After his death Holly got the letters from her mother. There was a big envelope, with 10 little letters inside it. All the letters had different months written on them. Every month she had to open one letter. The point of the letters was that he will always be at her side. Her best friends Denise and Sharon were also at her side, supporting her through it. The first month she had to buy herself a bedside lamp, because they always argued about who had to turn off the light.
of 20th century America, which he had experienced first-hand as a reporter. Steinbeck often populated his stories with struggling characters; his works examined the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. His later body of work reflected his wide range of interests, including marine biology, politics, religion, history, and mythology. One of his last published works was Travels with Charley, a travelogue of a road trip he took in 1960 to rediscover America. He died in 1968 in New York of a heart attack and his ashes are interred in Salinas. Seventeen of his works, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952), went on to become Hollywood films (some appeared multiple times, and Steinbeck also achieved success as a Hollywood writer, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Story in 1944 for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
2. blind someone with science confuse someone = kedagi segadusse ajama 3. move with the times adopt new fashions and trends = moega/ajaga kaasas käima 4. be somebodys guinea pig allow sb to experiment on you = olema kellelegi katsejäneseks 5. once in a blue moon very rarely = väga harva 6. turn the clock back go back in time = ajas tagasi minema 7. come down to earth be realistic = ole realistlik 8. reinvent the wheel rediscover sth = uuesti midagi avastama 9. it doesn't take a rocket scientist it doesn't require a lot of intelligence = see ei nõua palju intelligentsust 10. stand the test of time last for a long time = pikka aega kestma
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