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The best "second chance" love story I've read in a long time. ❤️
I absolutely loved this book. In addition to being a second-chance romance book which is one of my favorites, this book referenced Craiglist's Missed Connections, which I also love. So if you enjoy either one of those, this is the book for you!
You learn pretty quickly that one of the main characters, Matt is an adult in his 30s who is pretty recently divorced and is back in New York. He is forced to work with his ex-wife and her new husband, oh, and they're pregnant. One day while getting on the subway a woman who looks vaguely familiar gets on the last train ahead of him. As the woman gets on the train and turns around she realizes she recognizes Matt. The train is gone and Matt can not keep up. His friend convinces him to write a "missed connection" ad on Craigslist since "that's what all the cool people do".
From there we go back in time and find out who this woman is to Matt and what their relationship was.
This book gave me all of the feelings, all the emotions. I applaud Ms Renee Carlino for an excellent book. I look forward to reading more of her books.
I absolutely loved this book. In addition to being a second-chance romance book which is one of my favorites, this book referenced Craiglist's Missed Connections, which I also love. So if you enjoy either one of those, this is the book for you!
You learn pretty quickly that one of the main characters, Matt is an adult in his 30s who is pretty recently divorced and is back in New York. He is forced to work with his ex-wife and her new husband, oh, and they're pregnant. One day while getting on the subway a woman who looks vaguely familiar gets on the last train ahead of him. As the woman gets on the train and turns around she realizes she recognizes Matt. The train is gone and Matt can not keep up. His friend convinces him to write a "missed connection" ad on Craigslist since "that's what all the cool people do".
From there we go back in time and find out who this woman is to Matt and what their relationship was.
This book gave me all of the feelings, all the emotions. I applaud Ms Renee Carlino for an excellent book. I look forward to reading more of her books.
A pretty predictable second-chance love story.
Boy meets girl in high school. Boy loses girl in high school. Boy loses touch with girl over something stupid. Boy becomes a better man because of girl.
Ten years later, girl is still pining for boy and hopes to run into him at their high school reunion.
Overall I liked the story. Rather predictable even though it did have me going there for a minute or two.
Boy meets girl in high school. Boy loses girl in high school. Boy loses touch with girl over something stupid. Boy becomes a better man because of girl.
Ten years later, girl is still pining for boy and hopes to run into him at their high school reunion.
Overall I liked the story. Rather predictable even though it did have me going there for a minute or two.
Funny, sad and confusing. Mostly funny with a dash of sad.
I expected nothing less from Jenny Lawson. By far one of my favorite authors these days. This book deals with her mental illness and how it affects her life. I don't know much about Ms Lawson outside of her writing so I was surprised to read she had any kind of mental illness. Don't get me wrong, I am not sure how Victor puts up with her with a smile on his face but she's always seemed, "haha crazy" not, " I can't get out of bed crazy".
While there are the funny stories there are also the serious antidotal stories that make you feel for her and for people dealing with the same struggles.
While there are the funny stories there are also the serious antidotal stories that make you feel for her and for people dealing with the same struggles.
I couldn't rate this one right away. It's a classic and all, and it's supposed to be "the greatest love story of all time". So the pressure to give this at least a decent rating was high. But after thinking about how reading this made me feel - nope. This one sucked. First, it was hard to read. The dialogue was a mess. Second, I have a hard time people saying this is so great yet modem day books have such awful examples of relationships. They're all based on this book's model, in my opinion. Every single book with any kind of relationship is built on this notion of "the one that got away" and the plot to get him/her back and the revenge. It's okay for the classics but not for modern day, got it. Whether it was 100 years ago or not, it's not a great example of a romantic relationship, but it is what it is. It's a story.
I disliked it so much I felt like I had to force myself to finish it. Audiobooking this one definitely helped.
I disliked it so much I felt like I had to force myself to finish it. Audiobooking this one definitely helped.
Trashy and over the top. But if that's your thing (or even if it's not), once you get into it you won't be able to put it down.
I was hoping to like this one more than I did.
You have to like Mindy Kaling to like this one. I thought her first book was better, I felt like this one Mindy spent more time talking about her being a known celebrity more than anything else. I can't fault her for that one, I really was not sure what this book was going to be about.
I felt like the beginning and end of the book were great. Home run! But the middle lacked anything interesting other than how great it is to be a celebrity now and the ridiculous emails that went back and forth over a party she was throwing.
Despite the annoying parts, it was still comical listening to her. I'm glad I got this one in audio form, I probably would have liked it less in written form.
You have to like Mindy Kaling to like this one. I thought her first book was better, I felt like this one Mindy spent more time talking about her being a known celebrity more than anything else. I can't fault her for that one, I really was not sure what this book was going to be about.
I felt like the beginning and end of the book were great. Home run! But the middle lacked anything interesting other than how great it is to be a celebrity now and the ridiculous emails that went back and forth over a party she was throwing.
Despite the annoying parts, it was still comical listening to her. I'm glad I got this one in audio form, I probably would have liked it less in written form.
I do not understand the hype behind this book.
The idea of it was great - inside the mind of a stalker. But after the first few chapters I found myself thinking, yeah.... and....
I felt like the same thing just kept happening over and over. I do not want to give too many specifics on the book for those that are still hoping to read it, but I thought the story got old pretty quickly. I found myself forcing myself to pick it up and at this point, I'm just glad I'm done with it.
The idea of it was great - inside the mind of a stalker. But after the first few chapters I found myself thinking, yeah.... and....
I felt like the same thing just kept happening over and over. I do not want to give too many specifics on the book for those that are still hoping to read it, but I thought the story got old pretty quickly. I found myself forcing myself to pick it up and at this point, I'm just glad I'm done with it.
An amazing true story about mental illness and our very flawed mental health/medical system. It's a compelling story how against our best efforts our bodies can betray us and how second opinions are a must. It's really sad to know how there are people out there suffering from something that is totally treatable if they have the resources.