Secrets to Happiness
by: Sarah Dunn
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (March 25, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316013587
ISBN-13: 978-0316013581
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
Though not for the easily offended, Secrets to Happiness is tons of fun and full of laugh out loud moments. The first time that I picked this book up and started reading, I found that I had raced through the first 75 pages without even realizing that I had read that much. This is always a good sign to me.
Those that may be easily offended or taken back by the thought of giving your baby a dose of Benedryl so they will fall asleep and stay asleep, having lots of casual sex, or hearing how a guy thinks being a bit overweight is fat and thereby not worthy, may want to steer clear of this one. However, taken with a grain of salt, Secrets to Happiness is just a fun read - you may want to slap a character every now and then, but that's part of the personality and believability of some "big city living" people.
Author Sarah Dunn does an excellent job portraying and bringing her characters to life and allowing the reader to be in the scenes, as each new drama unfolds. I particularly enjoyed the character of Holly and her adopted cancer inflicted dog. Holly is the epitome of sass and is just a fun character.
All the drama of big city living, thirty-something and single, career unhappiness and just getting by is wrapped up, complete with a shimmering bow, in Secrets to Happiness. This is a great summer read and is sure to bring a few looks in the reader's direction as they laugh out loud and shake their heads at the predicaments and dialog throughout.
*overall rating: 4/5
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About Secrets to Happiness:
Holly Frick has just endured the worst kind of breakup: the kind where you're still in love with the person leaving you. While her wounds are still dangerously close to the surface, her happily married best friend confesses over a bottle of wine that she is this close to having an affair. And another woman comes to Holly for advice about her love life--with Holly's ex!
Holly decides that if everyone around her can take pleasure wherever they find it, so will she. As any self-respecting 30ish New York woman would do, she brings two males into her life: a flawed but endearing dog, and a good natured, much younger lover. She's soon entangled in a web of emails, chance meetings, and misguided good intentions and must forge an entirely new path to Nirvana.
From the author of The Big Love, Secrets to Happiness is a big-hearted, knife-sharp, and hilariously entertaining story about the perils of love and friendship, sex and betrayal--and a thoroughly modern take on our struggle to be happy.
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About Sarah Dunn:
Sarah Dunn has moved from Los Angeles to New York five times, and from New York back to Los Angeles four times, which means she is happily back in New York, where she lives with her husband, Peter Stevenson, and their son, Harry. Her first novel, The Big Love, has been translated into 23 languages.
Be sure to visit the author's website for lots of great info! http://sarahdunnbooks.com/
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by: Sarah Dunn
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (March 25, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316013587
ISBN-13: 978-0316013581
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
Though not for the easily offended, Secrets to Happiness is tons of fun and full of laugh out loud moments. The first time that I picked this book up and started reading, I found that I had raced through the first 75 pages without even realizing that I had read that much. This is always a good sign to me.
Those that may be easily offended or taken back by the thought of giving your baby a dose of Benedryl so they will fall asleep and stay asleep, having lots of casual sex, or hearing how a guy thinks being a bit overweight is fat and thereby not worthy, may want to steer clear of this one. However, taken with a grain of salt, Secrets to Happiness is just a fun read - you may want to slap a character every now and then, but that's part of the personality and believability of some "big city living" people.
Author Sarah Dunn does an excellent job portraying and bringing her characters to life and allowing the reader to be in the scenes, as each new drama unfolds. I particularly enjoyed the character of Holly and her adopted cancer inflicted dog. Holly is the epitome of sass and is just a fun character.
All the drama of big city living, thirty-something and single, career unhappiness and just getting by is wrapped up, complete with a shimmering bow, in Secrets to Happiness. This is a great summer read and is sure to bring a few looks in the reader's direction as they laugh out loud and shake their heads at the predicaments and dialog throughout.
*overall rating: 4/5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About Secrets to Happiness:
Holly Frick has just endured the worst kind of breakup: the kind where you're still in love with the person leaving you. While her wounds are still dangerously close to the surface, her happily married best friend confesses over a bottle of wine that she is this close to having an affair. And another woman comes to Holly for advice about her love life--with Holly's ex!
Holly decides that if everyone around her can take pleasure wherever they find it, so will she. As any self-respecting 30ish New York woman would do, she brings two males into her life: a flawed but endearing dog, and a good natured, much younger lover. She's soon entangled in a web of emails, chance meetings, and misguided good intentions and must forge an entirely new path to Nirvana.
From the author of The Big Love, Secrets to Happiness is a big-hearted, knife-sharp, and hilariously entertaining story about the perils of love and friendship, sex and betrayal--and a thoroughly modern take on our struggle to be happy.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About Sarah Dunn:
Sarah Dunn has moved from Los Angeles to New York five times, and from New York back to Los Angeles four times, which means she is happily back in New York, where she lives with her husband, Peter Stevenson, and their son, Harry. Her first novel, The Big Love, has been translated into 23 languages.
Be sure to visit the author's website for lots of great info! http://sarahdunnbooks.com/
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2 comments:
Nice review April. I didn't mind this book at all and I think you're right-if you take it with a grain of salt you might like it. I didn't really think some of the language or sex fit the story though. All in all though I liked it and would read more by her. You can take a peek at my review here.
Glad you were entertained by this April! :)
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