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Julia Baxbaum

Three truths about yourself

TELL ME THREE THINGS

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Julia Baxbaum is a popular American writer, author of The Three Truths About Myself, translated into 25 languages \u200b\u200band a bestseller for The New York Times and Amazon.

Three truths about one book: 1. It is beautiful. 2. She really is PERFECT. 3. Everyone should read it.

This is one of those books that you cannot tear yourself away from without reading to the last page.

"Publishers Weekly"

A real, sincere story about how to cope with grief and learn not to be afraid of change.

"Kirkus Reviews"

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To my I. and L.:

i love you

to the moon and back,

and again there and back,

and again, and again.

Seven hundred thirty-three days after Mom died, forty-five days after Dad married a woman he met on the Internet, thirty days after we moved to California, and seven days after I started at my new school, where I did not know anyone at all, I received a letter by e-mail. It might seem strange - an anonymous letter that suddenly appeared in the Inbox and signed by the stupid nickname Someone Nobody - but my life has changed so much that now I am no longer surprised. For seven hundred and thirty-three days, I lived as if in some other, abnormal, world and managed to learn one important lesson: over time, a person develops an immunity to everything strange.

Topic: your spirit mentor for survival at Wood Valley High School

hi miss holmes. we are not familiar in real life and are unlikely to ever meet. that is, maybe we'll get to know each other - maybe I'll ask you for the time or something else, just as everyday and boring - but we'll never really get to know each other, in the sense that is really important ... therefore I will communicate with you only by mail and under the cover of anonymity.

yeah, I'm shocked myself. a sixteen year old guy just wrote this nonsense: "under cover of anonymity." that's the # 1 reason why you'll never know my real name. I just won't survive the shame.

"Under the cover of anonymity"? Seriously?

yes, I am aware that normal people communicate by text messages, but I have not yet figured out how to do this so as not to reveal myself.

i watched you at school. just don't think I'm a maniac. although all maniacs are trying to prove that they are not maniacs. okay. just ... let's just say you intrigued me. as you probably noticed, our school is a continuous barren wasteland, a hotbed of blonde Barbies and Kens with empty eyes, and there is something in you (and not because you are new, although, of course, and therefore, too, we we all learn together almost from the first grade), something in your movements, in the way you speak, and you don't even speak, but you are silent and watching us, as if you are watching a documentary about the life of wild animals, and this leads thinking that you're not like all the other assholes in our asshole school.

i look at you and I want to know what's going on in your head. I'll be honest: usually I'm not particularly interested in what's going on in other people's heads. I have enough of my cockroaches.

in fact, I am writing to offer help. sorry to upset you, but Wood Valley High School is a shithole. it may look nice and nice: yoga classes, reading and meditation areas, a cafeteria with decent coffee ... but like any other high school in America (if not worse), our SSHV is a zone of incessant hostilities.

that's why I offer my services as a virtual spirit mentor. ask me any questions (except for questions about who I really am), and I will try to answer: who you can be friends with (the list is short), who you should stay away from (the list is long), why it is not recommended to take vegetarian hamburgers in the cafeteria ( long story involving ejaculate, which you better not know), how to get a high in Mrs. Stewart's lessons, why you shouldn't sit down at the same desk with Ken Abernathy (flatulence). by the way, be careful on physical training. Mr. Shackleman makes pretty girls run extra laps to gawk at their asses.

i think that's enough for a start.

welcome to the jungle.

yours truly, Someone Nobody

From whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

Topic: An intricate prank?

KN, is it true? Or do you want to play me like in a dumb romantic comedy? Will you find a cunning approach to me so that I will soften up, tell you about my secret thoughts / fears, and then - BAM - post our confidential correspondence on Tumblr so that I become a laughing stock for the whole school? If so, then there will be no fun. I have a black belt in karate. I can stand up for myself.

If this is not a joke, then thanks for the offer. But I still refuse. I want to be a journalist. I will get used to the war zones in advance. And then, I'm from Chicago. I can handle SSHVV somehow.

Topic: not elaborate and not at all a practical joke

this is not a prank, honestly. and I don't watch romantic comedies. yes, I am dense, I do not argue. I hope that after such a confession you will not stop respecting me.

by the way, a journalist is a dying profession. maybe you should think about a career as a military blogger?

From whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

Topic: Spam to the target audience?

Very funny. Wait, does anyone really pour sperm on veggie burgers?

Topic: you, Jesse Holmes, won $ 100 million from a Nigerian prince.

not just sperm, but sweaty lacrosse sperm.

i would also advise to refrain from meatloaf, just in case. in fact, don't eat at all in our cafeteria. or you'll catch salmonellosis.

From whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

Topic: I am already sending bank details

It's been 733 days since Jesse's mom died, 45 days since her father married another, 30 days since they had to move to Los Angeles, and only 7 days since Jesse moved to a new private school. And it was then that a letter from a mysterious stranger came to her in the mail. He wants to become her virtual mentor and help her get used to school, and also ... he is really interested in her thoughts and experiences.

Can she completely trust her new friend? Or is it just someone's evil prank?

Very soon, unnoticed by Jesse herself, their friendship develops into something more. It would seem that the time has come to find out who is actually hiding under the mysterious nickname Someone Nobody. Although, perhaps some secrets are better left undisclosed ...

The work belongs to the genre Modern foreign literature. It was published in 2016 by AST publishing house. The book is part of the "Real sensation!" Series. On our site you can download the book "Three truths about yourself" in fb2, rtf, epub, pdf, txt format or read online. The rating of the book is 4.75 out of 5. Here you can also refer to the reviews of readers who are already familiar with the book and find out their opinion before reading. In the online store of our partner, you can buy and read a book in paper form.

Appreciated the book

I spent the first four days of March with this book. Reading it on the eve of my 23rd birthday, I thought that something was clearly wrong with me. Me and "young adult" are basically bad things. Perhaps my letter to an imaginary psychoanalyst would look like this:

"Hello, Doctor!

They usually write to you if you really need to; and so: it is vital for me.

It's my birthday in a couple of days, but every year it's the same: a lot of drama and even more work. The only difference is that this year I have Julie Buxbaum's book, not Maugham, Remarque or Cortazar.

It's called Tell Me Three Things, and here are my three things, Doctor:

I like this book; for all her teenage romance, I cannot stop turning the pages, and not only because a third of the book is messages from Jesse's messenger, the main character;

There are too many irrecoverable losses in this book: Jesse lost her mother, her father lost his wife, Theo lost her father, Rachel lost her husband, Ethan lost her brother. Selected stories of personal grief. I read and think about those close ones whom, over time, I begin to remember not so clearly, but I believe that they are not ashamed of me there. More about those who disappear from all radars; I understand that this is inevitable, but it is not easy for me to let someone close and it is even more difficult for me to let go, but over time I learned not to get too attached to people, although this is also not an option;

You know, doctor, this book offers hope; it has a fair amount of youthful maximalism, the difficulties of growing up, ridiculous situations and the frequent use of the verb "waffle", but it is with this verb that I would describe my life; this part of speech is my favorite state of being.

And you know, doctor, you shouldn't feel sorry for me, because this book made it possible to understand that, in spite of everything, I am happy.

Appreciated the book

You know, I really liked it. An easy, kind, life book about a girl who moved to a new school.

Jesse's father married another woman 2 years after the death of his first wife. The stepmother and son are the same age as Jesse, live in Los Angeles, in a posh house, have a bunch of servants and can afford whatever they want. The girl is not used to such treatment and the fact that she is going to be sent to an elite school for the rich scares her pretty much. But, unexpectedly, a strange letter arrives in Jesse's mail, where a stranger invites the girl to become her virtual mentor in the world of Wood Valley High School, but does not want to reveal his identity in any way. Who is he? A secret admirer or a person who dreams of setting her up?

Gradually, the girl settles in a new school, not without the help of an anonymous person, even finds friends and falls in love with a couple of local guys. But school life is like a roller coaster - today you are at the top, and tomorrow you may be at the very bottom. And the boy with whom you have a common task in literature seems too good and makes his heart beat faster.

There is a lot of correspondence in this book - SMS, chats, e-mail, so the whole story is read in literally a few hours. The whole idea with three truths is insanely attractive, because nothing will let you know a person better than little revelations from his life. I was pleased that the heroes of the book themselves read a lot of books, mostly classics, but other genres were not deprived either. I guessed the anonym somewhere in the middle of the book, but at the end the author made such a coup that I began to doubt my own guesses.

This book is about loss, about pain and loss, about trying to start a new life, about grief and life, because life goes on, no matter what happens before. The book is definitely worth reading, because the sincerity and kindness that oozes from the pages cheers up and makes the day better.

Appreciated the book

This book was recommended to me by my friend. She said that all day long she was just dying of laughter. To be honest, although this book was already in my Wishlist, but after I was told that it was awesome, skepticism attacked me. Well, it can't be that I like the book. So I thought until the end of the first page, and then I just got carried away .... nice main characters, simple and laconic style of description, a nice picture "for the eyes". Also an interesting bonus for me was the fact that this is not just a romance for teenagers, but also a lesson for everyone. Perhaps you tell me what is instructive here, and I will answer the author telling us that we should not be afraid of our feelings, not be afraid to say something, not be afraid to feel alive. One famous quote can be attributed here:

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad news is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!

In the end, I am delighted with the book, an easy reading that will brighten up your evening. After this novel, I fell in love with the topic of correspondence in books. it looks so intimate that it’s even embarrassing that I interfere, yes, I know it sounds strange, but it was described and provided so coolly that I don’t have words except WOW.
I think that the book is suitable for all 5 points for a pleasant pastime.

TELL ME THREE THINGS

Julia Baxbaum is a popular American writer, author of The Three Truths About Myself, translated into 25 languages \u200b\u200band a bestseller for The New York Times and Amazon.

Three truths about one book: 1. It is beautiful. 2. She really is PERFECT. 3. Everyone should read it.

This is one of those books that you cannot tear yourself away from without reading to the last page.

"Publishers Weekly"

A real, sincere story about how to cope with grief and learn not to be afraid of change.

"Kirkus Reviews"

To my I. and L.:

i love you

to the moon and back,

and again there and back,

and again, and again.

To whom

From whom

Topic: your spirit mentor for survival at Wood Valley High School

yeah, I'm shocked myself. a sixteen year old guy just wrote this nonsense: "under cover of anonymity." that's the # 1 reason why you'll never know my real name. I just won't survive the shame.

"Under the cover of anonymity"? Seriously?

yes, I am aware that normal people communicate by text messages, but I have not yet figured out how to do this so as not to reveal myself.

i look at you and I want to know what's going on in your head. I'll be honest: usually I'm not particularly interested in what's going on in other people's heads. I have enough of my cockroaches.

i think that's enough for a start.

welcome to the jungle.

yours truly, Someone Nobody

To whom: Someone Nobody ()

From whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

Topic: An intricate prank?

If this is not a joke, then thanks for the offer. But I still refuse. I want to be a journalist. I will get used to the war zones in advance. And then, I'm from Chicago. I can handle SSHVV somehow.

To whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

From whom: Someone Nobody ()

Topic: not elaborate and not at all a practical joke

this is not a prank, honestly. and I don't watch romantic comedies. yes, I am dense, I do not argue. I hope that after such a confession you will not stop respecting me.

by the way, a journalist is a dying profession. maybe you should think about a career as a military blogger?

To whom: Someone Nobody ()

From whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

Topic: Spam to the target audience?

Very funny. Wait, does anyone really pour sperm on veggie burgers?

To whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

From whom: Someone Nobody ()

Topic: you, Jesse Holmes, won $ 100 million from a Nigerian prince.

not just sperm, but sweaty lacrosse sperm.

i would also advise to refrain from meatloaf, just in case. in fact, don't eat at all in our cafeteria. or you'll catch salmonellosis.

To whom: Someone Nobody ()

From whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

Topic: I am already sending bank details

To whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

From whom: Someone Nobody ()

Topic: as well as a copy of the birth certificate and driver's license

no. don't even try.

To whom: Someone Nobody ()

From whom: Jesse A. Holmes ()

Topic: Do you need my social security number of course?

Okay. But at least tell me, what's wrong with the capital letters? Shift key not working?

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