Meet Emily Ross, thirty years old, married to her college sweetheart, and personal advocate for cake at breakfast time.
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Sep 14, 2007
Nicole
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Is it wrong not to want to do what everyone expects? To the world, thirty-year old Emily Ross seems to be happily married to Kevin, a sensitive guy, for nearly nine years. She knows that she should be yearning to get to the next stage in her life, a house in the suburbs and a baby in the near future, at least that’s what Kevin and her mother tell her. Lately, a strangling sense of suffocation in a marriage that seems to be getting tedious is all Emily feels. A chance meeting at a coffee shop w
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Jan 02, 2012
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Oct 10, 2011
Autumn
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Oh my goodness... how to rate this book?
'Still Life with Husband' is Emily's story. She's a thirtysomething freelance journalist with a job she likes, a nice home, good friends, and a husband who loves her completely. What's wrong with all that? She gets bored. She gets stressed by the thought of living in the suburbs. She is irritated by her husband's requests that she consider having the child they'd agreed that both wanted.
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'Still Life with Husband' is Emily's story. She's a thirtysomething freelance journalist with a job she likes, a nice home, good friends, and a husband who loves her completely. What's wrong with all that? She gets bored. She gets stressed by the thought of living in the suburbs. She is irritated by her husband's requests that she consider having the child they'd agreed that both wanted.
So what does she do? She starts an affair with More...
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Sep 21, 2008
Jessica
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Suprisingly right on when expressing the inner workings of a young wife's mind. A little scary.
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Apr 27, 2008
Libby
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Despite Knopf saddling this novel with an atrocious, obvious-as-hell marketing ploy of a cover, this novel wants to be taken seriously. I mean, Ms. Michiko Kakutani herself gives it her imprimatur (or at least Lauren Fox's writing), as the copy makes ample note of.
And, while I was reading this novel (as a much needed speed read break from W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction) I did it enjoy it enough. But, as soon as I had finished it, and really started thinking abo More...
And, while I was reading this novel (as a much needed speed read break from W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction) I did it enjoy it enough. But, as soon as I had finished it, and really started thinking abo More...
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Jan 02, 2010
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Feb 27, 2010
Jeanine
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My sister-in-law gave this book to me after she'd finished it. We were in a cabin (read: decked out wooden house) on the Pacific Coast. She seemed mixed about it. I read it. It was like candy. Maybe liquor. Smooth, went down easily, spelled destruction. The moment I finished it, I didn't like it as much as I had the moment before. I had the feeling it began as a much, much longer book, as parts of it felt like they were missing. It may take this kind of editing to be a NY Times bestseller.
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Feb 27, 2009
Roberta
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I read this book in one night. I have to start by saying I don't enjoy fiction too much, particularly when the main character is a superfluous man (see Russian literature) or the narcissistic American type. This book's main character is the latter. Hard to relate to the main character. She seems needy, self-obsessed, thankless and generally unappealing. So rooting for her is tough, even though that seems to be what the author is aiming for.
Oct 02, 2011
Melissa
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I loved this book up until the time the character made a really stupid choice. But then I decided that we all make really stupid choices all the time. So, I stuck around to see what would happen. To see it unfold before your very eyes with someone else makes you want to scream "don't do it!" And then when they do it any way, you want to scream, "Oh no she didn't!" That's how I felt through this whole book. I simultaneously wanted to slap and shake and hug the main character.
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Jul 08, 2010
Stephanie
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I'd never heard of this book or author, and just picked it up in a thrift store. It was so good I finished it fast, and actually loved the ending. I guess it could be defined as well-written chick lit, but I mostly loved the commentary on relationships. It was sad and funny, but mostly just real.
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Sep 06, 2008
Rowena
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Emily Ross feels trapped. Her husband is badgering her to move to the suburbs and start popping out little ones...her job is stultifying at best...she is unwittingly setting herself up to have an affair. In comes David and Emily is sucked into the allure of something new, something different.
Lauren Fox can certainly write...she has a way with words that makes me wish she wrote something besides "chick-lit." Because unfortunately, that's simply what this book is. The plot wa More...
Lauren Fox can certainly write...she has a way with words that makes me wish she wrote something besides "chick-lit." Because unfortunately, that's simply what this book is. The plot wa More...
Dec 12, 2008
Denise
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This was a good read, but I found it hard to relate to the main character. She seemed miserable in her marriage but unable to express herself. I wouldn't have handled myself the way she did. Overall good book though.
Jul 24, 2010
Hannah
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Meh. Lauren Fox managed a few clever insights into the monster that is the troubled marriage, but overall, I found Still Life with Husband to be slow-paced and disappointing. I felt that it didn't really have an ending--The story was truncated just as the main character began her journey.
Mar 21, 2010
By their nature affairs are designed to be dissatisfying. They scratch an itch that can’t fully be scratched. That’s why they’re a tricky proposition in fiction too. How do you write a satisfying ending in an affair novel? Which relationship do you break up and at what cost? Most affair novels opt for an easy way out – no one gets caught or someone gets caught but then she’s pregnant by her husband so all is forgiven. Lauren Fox’s Still Life with Husband doesn’t take the easy way out. Fox uncove
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Aug 20, 2010
Bev
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I read this book a while back and just wanted to add it to my list. It was just OK--nothing to write home about. It's nothing I would heartily recommend to someone else.
Oct 08, 2009
Noelle
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I found the ending a little disappointing. It has one of those endings that kind of just stop and don't really tie up some burning questions the reader might have.
Feb 08, 2009
Jgabrielli
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Entertaining....left me wanting more at the end because I don't like when things are left to your imagination at the end. Still I would say this is worth it.
Aug 15, 2009
Stephanie
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Though the plot was fairly typical (unsatisfied spouse ends up in an affair) the Fox's writing style was pretty good. Annoyingly incomplete ending.
Oct 12, 2007
Apparantly this is Chick Lit Month for me, a respite from my usual state of book snobbery. Lauren Fox writes winningly: I read this adultery drama in just four subway rides (two daily commutes). But I could have done without the ever-present Angel of Morality. Fox worries too much that we'll judge Emily (the main character) poorly and, in effect, ends up doing so herself. That said, Emily's relationship with her best friend Meg (who, thankfully, is no sidekick) is beautifully drawn; it's nice
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Oct 30, 2010
Chelsea
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3 1/2 stars. A 30 yr old girl is married and has an affair. I liked Lauren Fox's writing, but the topic was very sad and depressing.
Dec 19, 2010
Jessica
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I really liked this book. It was interesting to see why a woman would fall out of love with her husband.
May 01, 2009
Jess
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Oct 02, 2009
Karla
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A sordid tale of a woman cheating on her boring husband. But it gave me no new ideas. <g>
Mar 05, 2008
Jo
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Dec 16, 2009
Mary
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I won this book in my English class and I even got it signed by the author. We had an entire class with her and she seems like a really nice person. This book is even written in Milwaukee, so I thought I would be able to relate with it. However, it is written for women at a different stage of life than me, and the language itself wasn't good enough to keep me reading, so I found myself putting it down even when I was trying my hardest to get it finished. I would be interested to re-read this
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Mar 15, 2009
Taryn
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Anthony was right. The book was enjoyable in the beginning and even the middle but the ending was horrible. I feel like Lauren Fox just stopped writing. I was left with no answer to Emily's predicament. And this is not in the style of "No Country for Old Men", when the killer just hobbles off into the sunset. This is more, "What happens next?" There is no simple question of who she chooses more like where are the missing pages to the rest of the story. I would have giv
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