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Carin Rubenstein Revealed
About Carin Rubenstein
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What is your birthdate?:12/30
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Previous occupations:Editor, mom
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Favorite job:Being a nanny in Italy for a summer.
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High school and/or college:Smith College
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Favorite movie:I love movies, just about all movies.
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Favorite television show:I love Weeds; also Mad Men; also Nurse Jackie, and many others. . .
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Wife, mother, writer, reader, kayaker, swimmer.
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. Marriage is all about the gene pool.
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. I'm not sure there's perfect happiness, but if there is, it's that fleeting moment right after marriage or childbirth or falling in love, when life seems divine.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. That my children will resent me.
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. On a beach in the Carribean, staring at the waves.
- Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
- A. When I was a kid, I used to love Dolly Madison. No idea why, though.
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. Gotta be Hillary Clinton.
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. I say "absolutely" way too often.
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. Not appreciating youth when I was young.
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. I always wished I could sing--really well.
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. My love of reading and writing.
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. Being too judgmental, too fast.
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. My love of words.
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. I'd be me--who'd want to be a thing??!!
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. My chin.
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. Drivers talking on their cell phones, while making a left turn.
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. Reading!
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. Chocolatier.
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. Fruit.
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. Anything the Beatles sing, sadly.
On Books and Writing
- Q. Who are your favorite authors?
- A. Impossible to say, really, since I have dozens and dozens and dozens of them.
- Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
- A. I have read and loved thousands and thousands of books. Though I do adore "The Hunger Games."
- Q. Is there a book you love to reread?
- A. I almost never reread books.
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. Write something every single day.
- Q. What comment do you hear most often from your readers?
- A. That's me!
- Q. How did you come to write Superior Wife Syndrome?
- A. First, I lived it. Then, I wrote about it.
