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157 voters
A Year to Remember
by
Shelly Bell (Goodreads Author)
Paperback, 314 pages
Published
July 20th 2012
by Soul Mate Publishing
(first published January 31st 2012)
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I loved this book because it was funny and authentic. Sara, the heroine, faces the same dilemma we all do - learning how to accept ourselves. When she corners herself into finding her soul mate by her thirtieth birthday, she takes a wonderful life journey (often with hilarious and sometimes heart rending results.) Her trials and tribulations force her to take a hard look at herself. Wonderfully written, this is a great debut novel!
Shelly Bell is currently on tour with CLP Blog Tours and A Year to Remember. Sara Friedman is tired of being single, and something inside her snaps at her younger brother’s wedding. His big day also happens to be her twenty-ninth birthday, and Sara drunkenly announces to 300 wedding guests that she will be married by her thirtieth. When someone so kindly records her “speech” and puts in on YouTube, Sara goes viral. With a national morning show offering to help her one year journey of finding a h...more
A single twenty-nine year old woman ... a drunken wedding toast with a promise to be married by her thirtieth birthday that was videotaped and posted on YouTube ... a plan to find her soul mate within the year ... and a national morning show following her progress. The result: one woman's year of following the yellow brick road on a personal journey of self-discovery.
Sara Friedman is a twenty-nine year old single woman from Detroit, Michigan. When her younger brother gets married on her twenty-n...more
Sara Friedman is a twenty-nine year old single woman from Detroit, Michigan. When her younger brother gets married on her twenty-n...more
Shelly Bell is visiting to Writer’s Corner on the Chick Lit Plus Blog Tour. She is promoting her debut novel A Year to Remember.
Synopsis:
Sara is the older sibling and today her younger brother Seth is getting married. Sara being the eldest child feels some animosity towards her sibling on his special day. She is asked to give a speech at his reception then caught by surprise and doesn’t know what to say at first. Sara vows to get married by her thirtieth birthday. Let the online dating journey...more
Synopsis:
Sara is the older sibling and today her younger brother Seth is getting married. Sara being the eldest child feels some animosity towards her sibling on his special day. She is asked to give a speech at his reception then caught by surprise and doesn’t know what to say at first. Sara vows to get married by her thirtieth birthday. Let the online dating journey...more
When Sara's younger brother gets married on her 29th birthday and she is surprised with a speech things don't go exactly as she planned. She starts a lovely speech about soul mates, but ends it with a vow to be married by her 30th birthday a year away. The plot follows Sara through the media frenzy she is forced into after her vow makes it to YouTube and how she heads out on her search for love/marriage.
Sara joins the online dating pool, does speed dating, and follows up on other connections. Al...more
Sara joins the online dating pool, does speed dating, and follows up on other connections. Al...more
I found this story to be enchanting, real, funny, and ultimately fulfilling. Shelly Bell has created a truly likable and interesting character in her protagonist Sara. The reader follows Sara through her year-long search to find her soul mate, something she declares she will do while drunk at her brother's wedding and captured on video for the whole world to see via YouTube. Sara struggles not only with love but with her codependent relationship on her best friend, Missy, and with the underlying...more
Shelly does a wonderful job of writing this funny and entertaining story of one woman on her quest to find her soul mate. We are lead through Sara's life with things the reader can take to heart, laugh at, appreciate with your best friend, and most of all empathize with. Shelly Bell wrote a wonderful story that keeps the reader involved and hoping for Sara's story to end with her deepest wish fulfilled. I would recommend this book.
A Year to Remember by Shelly Bell is about a Jewish girl names.Sara Friedman. She vows on her 29th birthday to be married by her 30th - which creates a year of major changes, self discovery and more.
I enjoyed the book overall, I found the story to be relateable in an almost scary way. It took a turn I wasn't quit expecting in that it faced eating disorders - and more specifically compulsive over eating.
In the end, the book goes where you hope it will. Although I am wondering if there will be a...more
I enjoyed the book overall, I found the story to be relateable in an almost scary way. It took a turn I wasn't quit expecting in that it faced eating disorders - and more specifically compulsive over eating.
In the end, the book goes where you hope it will. Although I am wondering if there will be a...more
When reading this Goodreads giveaway, I found myself laughing out loud at different times. The author tells the story of a 29 year old Jewish girl determined to be married by her thirtieth birthday (which she announces to everyone at her younger brother's wedding). She enlists the help of her best friend to set up dates using various dating services. Although the end of the story was somewhat predictable, I enjoyed the journey. Romance, humor, friendship and love make for an entertaining read.
Cute book with a little bit of drama. I learned more about Jewish faith than I had before which was fun.
Very compelling story. It reminds me of several people that I knew back when I was around twenty nine.
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