FYI, I loved the Passage and started reading the second book, the Twelve, and it wasn’t very good at all. I stopped reading about 1/2 way through.

More WW2 historical fiction that I enjoyed– The Nightengale by Kristin Hannah and The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff. General: The Girl on the Train, How to Party With an Infant, and City of Promise.

I would mail it to Artbags in NYC. They are the best.

Late to this, but if you’re still reading. FWIW two of my (male) friends mentioned to me they were going to ask the firm for a bump in their clerkship bonuses (one a bump in the bonus, the other what you are asking for – a bit of the bonus they gave up when they left to clerk at the end of the year). I thought this was crazy (I assumed these things were very lockstep, and we are paid generously anyway) but the way they both treated asking like nbd, I chalked it up to a gender thing of men not thinking twice about negotiating for a higher salary. Now I wish I had asked for a bump when I came back. At the very least I doubt you will be the first to ask.

Midwesterner here (southern OH) and I say this all the time. Particularly when out at restaurants and I’m ready for the check – when the waitperson asks if we want anything else, we’ll say “no, I think we’re all set.”

I think it could work in both scenarios