The Ever After

Fiction by Sarah Pekkanen

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"SO THIS IS HOW you discover your husband is having an affair, Josie Moore thought."

That's a pretty good opening line, right? 

This book explores the relationship between a married couple when the wife discovers his affair. 

It's an interesting character study, but I had a little trouble with some of it. I don't know how I would react if I found out what Josie did, but I don't think I'd do the melodramatic stuff she did. Still, it was a pretty good story.

I also read recently by this author: The Wife Between Us

We Should Hang Out Sometime

Nonfiction by Josh Sundquist.

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This is a funny memoir with an awesome first line:

When I was twenty-five years old, it came to my attention that I had never had a girlfriend. At the time, I was actually under the impression that I was in a relationship, so this bit of news came as something of a shock.

Well worth reading. I mean, don't you want to know how this could happen to a guy?

Lucky Us

Fiction by Amy Bloom.

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Lucky Us is a story about a pair of sisters that begins in 1939. Despite the title, these girls are not particularly lucky. I like character novels, and this is a good character novel.

It also has an awesome first line: 

“My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.”

Heading Out to Wonderful

Fiction by Robert Goolrick.



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Really good story, although a little dark near the end, in an unexpected way.

I got this book because I'd liked A Reliable Wife by the same author. That one also had a surprising twist to the dark side. Not that I'm giving anything away.

So, based on that other book, I got this one without knowing what it was about.

Still, I didn't really like the cover of Heading Out to Wonderful, or the title really, which are major deciding factors for me in book-choosing, as I am extremely shallow. So I wasn't sure if I wanted to read it, since I'd just gotten a large stack of library books and was running out of time to read everything.

But I decided to give this book a chance, and it got me with the first line:

"The thing is, all memory is fiction. You have to remember that."

Isn't that a cool first line?