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And I realize I have to make a choice. And at that point a restaurant had opened in Los Angeles called Mangia, that was a partnership of two women who had gone to the Giuliano Bugialli School in Florence. And it was the most real Tuscan dining experience in Los Angeles.

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I can do it as well or better than the people you have working for you. And the first day I was there, it was as if I put on a coat that was just made for me. Thom Mayne, who is a Pritzker prize winner and who is huge now. He was designing it. So I thought, you know, at that time his firm, Morphosis, was one of the up and coming deconstructionist architecture firms.

And that was my first head chef job. And it was really challenging. I was a woman, you know, a girl really. Everybody else in the kitchen, everybody in the front of the house, were real professionals. There was a lot of drama because the owner was a drama king.

Both his children worked at the restaurant, so that was interesting. And then there was the issue of the singing. You have to wait. I mean, they would make the waiters carry everything on trays around the block through a second door on the other side of the building. But for me it was trial by fire.

I was so brave then.

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At the end of our book interview, I asked Gayle for a story that summed up the era for her. Well one lunch, three of us cooks were at Stars having a really early lunch at the bar. And Sandra Bernhard, who at the time had her one-person show. I thought Oh, my God. You know, and I look over: Anyway, I tried coming on to her. I winked at her and I blew her a kiss. And I was trying to be cavalier. And then she did it back to me.

And I thought, Oh, my God, she did it back! I went very cavalierly up to her table. You should come there for dinner tonight after the show. And the staff would just go out of their minds if they thought you and I were lovers from a long time ago. And the entire staff, the owners, the managers, Judy —. A journey without end. A woman with no shame. Down that road lies only pain. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 1 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. My husband said he wishes he could buy the second book but on a limited income it's hard.

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We don't know how Rick Yancey did it, but he nails the main female character. Sometimes is really difficult writing about the other gender without leaving traces of your own. We don't really know how guys think or act or if there's an encyclopedia for that, but it seems that Yancey found the girls encyclopedia.

The way Cassie thinks and acts and talks it's the normal behavior of a teenage girl. So while reading the book we couldn't stop thinking how the author did it to captivate us like he did. Cassie is a strong character. She's been running, surviving. At first she was with her family. Everything was falling around them, but at least she was not alone.

Then her family starts to die. It's horrible how she watches her dying, knowing there's no way to safe her. It's really sad, but she keeps her strength and her determination to keep her father and little brother alive. Then they stole her brother and kill her father and almost kill her. Like nothing bad has happened already to her. She keeps pilling up situations where the characters proves to us that she's even more strong than that, because she has a purpose in her life.

It doesn't matter that the world is ending, that she may be the last teenage girl alive on Earth, she made a promise and that keeps her fighting back. We really like her attitude and we are glad to see that she kept fighting instead of surrender. It's true that, at first, the story goes slow. You need to know everything about Them and get to know what happened in the different waves to make Cassie act, think and behave like she does and why is where she is now.

It kind of feels like a drug. To unravel everything and to finally know Cassie's story and what the fifth wave is about. However, what makes this book different from the other alien-dystopian books is the four points of views in this story. Four different people that gives you a different insight into the invasion. As you can guess, one of them is Cassie. The other is Ben. We met him before reading his POV. He's Cassie's secret crush in High School back when everything was normal. We can see through Ben's eyes. He's in a sort of military camp training for a battle.

You can see the change of his life after the invasion, what he thinks and what he feels. His POV's is important because is thanks to him that we know what the 5th wave is all about. He's a little kid.

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He's expecting to see his father and sister again and its a little heartbreaking. He ends up in a military base with another character, Ben. They are in the same military squad and became "brothers! It's really cute how Ben takes care of him. The last POV's Evan. He's here to accomplish a mission and Cassie's making tumble his plans without her even knowing. He's the bad guy. The one Cassie should be running from and he should have killed Cassie the first time he saw her in the woods. But he did not.

We knew from the beginning that he was lying. Shooting animals at night? It's normal that Cassie's instincts where on fire with him.

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We didn't trust him, but wanted to. The story is not an expected one. It's not one of those stories that you know how the book is gonna end or what is going to happen or who is going to die or not OMG, we need the second book. It's a great story with unexpected twist and unraveling secrets that would make you scream all the time. Rick Yancey wrote an excellent novella and we are dying to know more about The Fifth Wave.

We can assure you, Book Addicts, that you'd be captivated by this story. It would make you feel everything the author wanted you to feel while reading it. So, Book Addicts, don't doubt a second. Read The Fifth Wave. You're going to love it. And that's why it's in our highest ranking with five gorjuss dolls. From the first time I read the blurb of The 5th Wave, I wanted it. The earth has been visited by aliens, and they don't come in peace. And it's not like in the movies, where prominent cities are destroyed but we fight back with nuclear weapons and then we win, no the humans are losing.

The 1st wave hit 11 days after the ship appeared above. After a 2nd, 3rd and 4th wave, the few humans who are left, are waiting on a 5th wave, with no idea what it's going to be.

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