Rise and Shine!

That's the name of my latest book: Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen

Here are some vocab examples from just the first 50 pages:

"'I'd respect him a whole lot more if he'd just cut me dead when he sees me. Insted it's all, Oh, Meghan, great to see you.'
'Smarmy,' said Tequila.
'Unctuous,' Meghan said.
'Get out the dictionary,' said Alison. 'Here come the vocabulary words.'
'She means the man is one kiss-ass mayor,' said Tequila.'"


"'I wish my son, Leo, was here tonight, but he is spending three weeks in Spain, perfecting skills in a language I don't even understand. He is making himself more cosmopolitan, more educated, more a citizen of the world than his parents are.'"


"But somehow there was a beat of open air before the commercial, perhaps because Meghan had cut the interview short. And in television a beat is a lifetime, long enough to sink a politician or kill a sound engineer who leaves it empty. There would be a lot of speculation about the technical reasons for what happened, whether someone with whom Meghan had been brusque had intentionally left the station on the air when she thought they had gone to commercial. I doubted that; The guys on the lower rungs loved her, the sound guys, the equipment guys, the gofers.