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.
My Thoughts:
I was impressed with this novel, Sarah Dunn has a unique way with words that is filled with both emotion and humor. If you are looking for a weekend Chick-lit book Secrets to Happiness is the book to read. Her main is character, Holly is very realistic and very complex her best friend is as well. If I was going to describe this book in one word it would be New York, Secrets to Happiness is a very New York book. This would be the perfect book for book clubs.
Not only does this book contain a Reader’s Guide, it also contains Sarah Dunn’s list of good books for bed rest and rainy afternoons.
One of my favorite parts of the book was were Holly was going book-shopping and had to set herself a limit due to her over enthusiastic penchant for book-buying.
I have 3 copies to giveaway on August 31st
To enter please tell me about your book-buying overload moment. I know we have all had one, I know that I have went into the bookstore and have come out loaded down with 20 plus books and still hadn’t managed to buy the one I went in for.
Also leave your name and email address.
Contest open only to residents in the US & Canada.
Sorry NO P.O. Boxes.
Contest And Review Copy thanks to Hachette
I ran out of book space, so I joined Paperbackswap.com. Hubby was so happy when I mailed out over 100 books, but we underestimated what it's like to received over 100 individually-wrapped swapped books back in the mail... I was embarassed to run into the mail carrier. =)
ReplyDeletetiredwkids at live dot com
My TBR pile is simply ridiculous so I really try not to go too crazy when book shopping at retail stores or online. I have however gone overload at used book sales. I have come home with boxes and big shopping bags filled to the brim. Who can resist a good sale!?! =)
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My public library has this book sale once a year. On the last day of the sale, they give you a shopping bag for $5 and you can get as many books as you can fit in the bag. Well, I walked out with a couple of shopping bags and enough books to take me into the year 2012! But that doesn't stop me from going to Barnes and Nobles weekly!
ReplyDeletelizzi0915 at aol dot com
So cute! Please count me in!
ReplyDeletestephaniet117 at yahoo dot com
would love to read this novel...thanks for the chance :)
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Our public library also has book sales. Last time I went out with a couple of bags full. Great books but I know I should have used more restraint and not brought home so many!
ReplyDeletepbclark(at)netins(dot)net
Oh man. Every tiem I go to the thrift store. I kind of have a book addiction.
ReplyDeletemisusedinnocence@aol.com
I have a serious book addiction, I can't seem to manage to pass on a good book deal no matter how many books are in my TBR pile. I recently went to the strand in NYC, I was in book heaven :)
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