Honest, hopeful, hilarious—the smartest, most knowing account of a woman and the calamities of midlife since Nora Ephron’s wryly hu...
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Feb 04, 2012
Sharon
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This masterfully written memoir should be required reading for lots of people: anyone thinking about getting married, anyone already married and thinking about getting divorced. Women in the process of divorce. Anyone who may ever get cerebral aneurism. Mothers. Daughters. Friends and relatives of all the above. In other words, this book has something of value for nearly anyone.
Margaret Overton was in mid-life, with a successful career in anesthesiology, two teenage daughters, and a More...
Margaret Overton was in mid-life, with a successful career in anesthesiology, two teenage daughters, and a More...
Feb 09, 2012
Cyndy
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I jumped at the chance to obtain an advance reader copy of Margaret Overton's Good in a Crisis: A Memoir via NetGalley; as a divorce survivor myself, the opportunity to read someone else's version of how it goes, especially when the book is being compared to Nora Ephron's Heartburn, was a must-read.
Good in a Crisis: A Memoir starts out as a compelling read; Overton has a witty voice that's easy to read, and her ability to laugh in the face of just about any embarrassing event, includ More...
Good in a Crisis: A Memoir starts out as a compelling read; Overton has a witty voice that's easy to read, and her ability to laugh in the face of just about any embarrassing event, includ More...
Feb 05, 2012
Shelleyrae
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Margaret Overton is an anesthesiologist but this is not the story of her career, it is a personal account of her midlife crisis. It begins with her divorce after twenty years of marriage and the challenges that follow. Though her marriage is no real loss, Margaret is hurt as her husband flaunts his much younger mistress, the latest in a long line of women, she discovers, and makes financial arrangements unnecessarily difficult. Margaret doesn't expect to be alone for long though and with her dau
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Feb 12, 2012
Deanna
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I think I would like Margaret quite a bit. She's intelligent, has interesting friends, and does fun things like go on a singles bike trip. In this book, though, I didn't feel I learned anything real about her true personality. We read very personal details about her life, but it's almost from a removed, third-person point of view. There is a sense of "I did this; dated this man; this happened"...and that kind of writing, even in a memoir, just doesn't draw me in.
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Feb 15, 2012
Jean
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Someone must have suggested to this author that it would be a great idea if she wrote a book compilation of all her horrendous dates via Match.com. There's not much else to this book. She and her husband are both wealthy doctors who divorce after 20 years of marriage. In between biking trips through France and Napa Valley to find herself, she compulsively dates men she meets on the Internet. All the men are liars just like her ex-husband, and one even rapes her. Why she would want to share
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