How do you change your luck? Katherine Center’s marvelously entertaining and poignant new novel is about choosing to look for happiness&mdash...
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Jan 10, 2012
Jennifer
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From my blog...[return][return]Get Lucky by Katherine Center is a delightfully charming, witty, and down-to-earth look at the lives of two sisters, Sarah and Mackie, and the life altering events that shape who they are. The story is told to the reader by Sarah beginning with how she managed to get herself fired and then ends up staying in Houston with her sister and brother-in-law, Clive, much longer than she ever expected. Center's characters are witty, strong, and quite likeable, especially Sa
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Feb 22, 2011
Darcy
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Do you ever pick up a book and find that you are surprised by how much you liked it? You aren't really sure why, maybe it is your mood, maybe you connect to the story or the characters, but there is just something about it. This is what happened to me with this book.
It is always funny how there are times when you hit the send button on a e-mail and you know you shouldn't have sent it. For Sarah that one little action cost her, her job and sent her home to Texas to lick her wounds. More...
It is always funny how there are times when you hit the send button on a e-mail and you know you shouldn't have sent it. For Sarah that one little action cost her, her job and sent her home to Texas to lick her wounds. More...
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Feb 21, 2011
I've been trying to get around to reading one of Katherine Center's novels for a while. Get Lucky was a pretty good place to start. The novel trods on some serious territory, but with a light touch, and features an appealing - if sometimes frustrating - leading character.[return][return]Sarah Harper is a woman who fully invests herself in whatever she's doing - one thing at a time. For the last several years, that singular focus has been applied to her New York City advertising career - most rec
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Oct 09, 2010
Jessica
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Get Lucky by Katherine Center tells the story of Sarah Harper, a workaholic advertising executive in New York City. When she sends out an inappropriate company-wide e-mail and is fired from her job, she doesn’t know where to go or what to do. She decides to travel home to Texas to visit her sister and best friend Mackie.
When she arrives home, she finds that Mackie’s life is not as perfect as it looks; all Mackie wants is a baby and she and her husband are struggling to conceive. Sarah More...
When she arrives home, she finds that Mackie’s life is not as perfect as it looks; all Mackie wants is a baby and she and her husband are struggling to conceive. Sarah More...
May 27, 2010
Relyn
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I've read Katherine Center's other books, and I think this one was probably the most enjoyable. Certainly the male love interest was the best. If I could have, this would have been a three and a half star book. I liked it, but I don't see myself ever rereading it. Not sorry I read it, but don't care about owning it. One of those books, you know? If she had dealt with the guy and his back story more I would have liked it better. The love story part of this book was great, but it was way to
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Mar 12, 2010
Donna
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I got lucky when I won an advanced copy of this book. Get Lucky is a well-written, charming, and humorous look at one woman's adventures through a life transition. We first encounter Sarah after she has gotten herself fired from her New York City ad job and is headed to Houston to spend a holiday with her sister. Of course, it turns out to be more than a short vacation. As we become immersed in Sarah's story, we are reminded that plans don't alway work out the way we expected, grief can be overc
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Feb 20, 2010
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Sarah goes home to Houston after she gets fired where she finds that both her hometown and her family have changed while she's been in New York.
Her sister Mackie has given up on trying to have a baby and Sarah decides to be a surrogate for Mackie and her husband. Meanwhile the sisters' father decides to remarry. And while Sarah navigates pregnancy, she fends off Mackie's attempts to play matchmaker with the guy Sarah unceremoniously dumped back in high school and temping at a prese More...
Her sister Mackie has given up on trying to have a baby and Sarah decides to be a surrogate for Mackie and her husband. Meanwhile the sisters' father decides to remarry. And while Sarah navigates pregnancy, she fends off Mackie's attempts to play matchmaker with the guy Sarah unceremoniously dumped back in high school and temping at a prese More...
Nov 01, 2011
Jan
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I picked up this book randomly from the library. When I got home, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I've read another book by this author that I really enjoyed, The Bright Side of Disaster.
What I ended up not being pleasantly surprised by was the book itself. I read a lot of chick lit. It is my preferred type of fiction, along with YA fiction. But I found the scenarios in this one just far too implausible. I lost count of how many times I rolled my eyes and thought to myself, More...
What I ended up not being pleasantly surprised by was the book itself. I read a lot of chick lit. It is my preferred type of fiction, along with YA fiction. But I found the scenarios in this one just far too implausible. I lost count of how many times I rolled my eyes and thought to myself, More...
Mar 30, 2011
Leah
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This is my first Katherine Center book and I have to say I'm not impressed. I felt this book had a lot of potential, but fell short in so many ways. I was bored with all the useless information of Sarah thinking to herself and the severe lack of dialogue between characters. There was hardly any interaction between Sarah and her love interest it was mostly her obsessing over how much she either hated him or was crushing on him. Also, the plot would skip back and forth between present and what wou
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May 23, 2010
Debbie (Readerbuzz)
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Sarah Harper has crashed and burned at her job and has run home to Houston and her sister to get back into the air. She and her sister have always been close and, when she discovers her sister has given up trying to have a baby, decides to serve as a surrogate mother for her. She ends up carrying twins, but the surrogate motherhood is really just a small part of the story. Sarah meets up with a former boyfriend who she cruelly dumped in high school and tries to reconnect with him and make amend
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Feb 11, 2010
Allison
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This book is some good quality chick-lit. There's a lot going on on every page, and I loved the characters (mostly). The story is cute in a "this would never in a million years happen to me, over the top" kind of way, which is how I like my chick-lit. I thought each of the situations that Sarah found herself in was well-developed but like in real life kind of taper off in importance as they're going on and other things get in the way, like when Sarah realizes she hasn't seen April i
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Feb 15, 2010
Kylene (KyandMatt)
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This was the first book by Center that I've read. While I did enjoy the book, there were a couple of things that irritated me.
One thing was the over use of info that was not relevant to the story. There were plenty of times that I skipped over two, three or even four paragraphs of useless, boring info, only to find out that I didn't really miss anything.
The other thing was that the story went back and forth in time way too often. For some books, it works but not for this More...
One thing was the over use of info that was not relevant to the story. There were plenty of times that I skipped over two, three or even four paragraphs of useless, boring info, only to find out that I didn't really miss anything.
The other thing was that the story went back and forth in time way too often. For some books, it works but not for this More...
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May 15, 2010
Amber
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For bookclub this month we got read Get Lucky and had the opportunity to skype online with the author Katherine Center. I liked the book before but now I am totally enamored after hearing her talk through her thought processes and reasonings and hearing the voice of the author which is a true and honest depiction of a woman. I told her that I appreciated (especially while reading Everyone is Beautful) the fact that she could write about my life, being a woman and often frustrated mother in suc
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Apr 26, 2010
Meg
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Katherine Center’s Get Lucky is a gem of a novel dealing with sisters and mothers, fathers and children, families of both the traditional — and non-traditional — variety. And though Sarah has certainly already reached adulthood in New York, it takes coming home to Texas for her real coming-of-age odyssey to begin. And it just might take her one big, selfless act to get her back on course.
Center writes with amazing attention to detail and creates vivid, sympathetic and charming charac More...
Center writes with amazing attention to detail and creates vivid, sympathetic and charming charac More...
Mar 20, 2010
Charlotte
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Get Lucky was a fast, emotionally charged read. I was chuckling one second and wiping tears the next. The ups and downs of being a Sister were what this story was built on. And Katherine Center nailed it. From the unbelievable devotion to the frightening hints of jealousy to the sharing clothes and eating ice cream in bed. The relationship two sisters have, may be the most important relationship they ever have. I absolutely adored this More...
Get Lucky was a fast, emotionally charged read. I was chuckling one second and wiping tears the next. The ups and downs of being a Sister were what this story was built on. And Katherine Center nailed it. From the unbelievable devotion to the frightening hints of jealousy to the sharing clothes and eating ice cream in bed. The relationship two sisters have, may be the most important relationship they ever have. I absolutely adored this More...
Mar 03, 2010
Sara (smb+jab)
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After being fired from her marketing job, which was pretty much her life in New York City, Sarah Harper goes home to Houston to spend Thanksgiving with her sister, Mackie whom she shares everything with. Before she is able to share her own troubles, Sarah learns Mackie has some problems of her own. After years of trying, Mackie has decided to give up on her dream of becoming a mother. In an effort to re-examine her own life and change her luck Sarah sets forth on a path of rediscovery and sel
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Apr 25, 2010
Colleen
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I received my copy from LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program. I was a little nervous about the book because I loved Center's first book but couldn't finish her second. This book lived up to the expectations I had after reading "The Bright Side of Disaster".
Sarah Harper has a great job in advertising in New York City, and then the next day she doesn't. One little email forward changes her life forever. She flees to Texas where she is going to visit with her sister and figu More...
Sarah Harper has a great job in advertising in New York City, and then the next day she doesn't. One little email forward changes her life forever. She flees to Texas where she is going to visit with her sister and figu More...
Apr 28, 2011
Diane
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This is my first book by this author, but I am glad that I picked this one up. Get Lucky is the story between two sisters, Sarah and Mackie. Sarah ends up losing her job, due to comical circumstances, and winds up at her sister's place which begins a succession of events that will forever alter both of their lives.
This book is about sisters, children, losing yourself, finding yourself again, finding and losing love and discovering things about your parents that you had not realized.
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This book is about sisters, children, losing yourself, finding yourself again, finding and losing love and discovering things about your parents that you had not realized.
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Jul 10, 2010
Jennifer
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I tried so hard to like this book because I love Katherine Center, but this book just didn't have it.
Why the flip-flop on the cover? I don't know--I guess I could snarkingly say it's because the book itself is a total flop, but I just don't know.
Why the title "Get Lucky"? That, too, is a mystery to me.
There's just so much going on in this novel--and so little at the same time--and it's almost like things are introduced to see how far the protagonist grow More...
Why the flip-flop on the cover? I don't know--I guess I could snarkingly say it's because the book itself is a total flop, but I just don't know.
Why the title "Get Lucky"? That, too, is a mystery to me.
There's just so much going on in this novel--and so little at the same time--and it's almost like things are introduced to see how far the protagonist grow More...
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Jun 25, 2010
Candy
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I really enjoyed this book. So far, I've really enjoy this author. She has a way of making the characters come to life for me. The main character, Sarah decides to become a surrogate for her sister, who is struggling with not being able to have a child on her own. Both girls embark on this adventure, having no idea what kind of a strain it will put on their relationship. Instead of bringing them closer together, it drives them farther apart. And then, when the arrival finally happens, how does s
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Aug 06, 2010
Kristen
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Apr 03, 2011
Michelle
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Sarah Harper does something in the beginning of this book that is pretty far fetched and ridiculous. While this is fiction, there are times when authors stretch what is credible a bit too thin for me.
Sarah decides to go home to regroup and while there, makes a rash decision to be a surrogate for her infertile sister. I thought that this subject matter would make for an interesting storyline but really what we spent most of the book learning about was Sarah's inability to behave in an More...
Sarah decides to go home to regroup and while there, makes a rash decision to be a surrogate for her infertile sister. I thought that this subject matter would make for an interesting storyline but really what we spent most of the book learning about was Sarah's inability to behave in an More...
Aug 19, 2010
Helene
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This book was easy to relate to since the protagonist had a similar situation to me in terms of career. The book immediately grabbed my attention with the way it was written, with a few unexpected twists and turns thrown in there by Katherine Center.
"Get Lucky" makes me wonder...what would it be like to be the gestational carrier for one of my sisters? It's a thought that rarely comes across my mind, but after reading this book, it really made me wonder about that possibili More...
"Get Lucky" makes me wonder...what would it be like to be the gestational carrier for one of my sisters? It's a thought that rarely comes across my mind, but after reading this book, it really made me wonder about that possibili More...
Jul 22, 2010
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A story about sisters Sarah and Mackie Harper, "Get Lucky" reveals the differences and the similarities that bind the two, even when they're living totally separate lives—with Sarah in New York and Mackie back home in Houston, Texas, with husband Clive.
Then one day, in the midst of an advertising campaign that would, most likely, move Sarah up the ladder of success, she does something so daring (and inappropriate) that she ends up jobless and on a flight home to Texas.
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Then one day, in the midst of an advertising campaign that would, most likely, move Sarah up the ladder of success, she does something so daring (and inappropriate) that she ends up jobless and on a flight home to Texas.
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May 31, 2010
Shonda
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Ms. Center became a part of my world last year after I read raving reviews for Everyone is Beautiful. Unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to read it. When I heard her latest book would be released in the spring of this year, I immediately added my name to the wait list. My only regret is I waited to start reading her books.
Get Lucky is a fascinating story between two sisters Sarah and Mackie. Sarah makes one careless decision which costs her her job. Uncertain what to do next, she More...
Get Lucky is a fascinating story between two sisters Sarah and Mackie. Sarah makes one careless decision which costs her her job. Uncertain what to do next, she More...
Mar 24, 2011
Beth
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I enjoyed this book so much! When Sarah loses her job because she sends a highly inappropriate email to her entire company, I was ready to really dislike her. It just seemed like such an immature thing to do. By the end of the book I decided Sarah had redeemed herself and while I didn't always agree with her actions, I found her to be very likable. Sarah goes home to Houston to visit her sister for Thanksgiving to think of what her next move should be. While there she learns her sister, Mackie (
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Apr 06, 2010
Mary
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Sarah Harper not so accidentally sends a risqué email to her entire company and gets shown the door. She winds up in a last row seat next to an old boyfriend on a plane bound for Houston, her hometown. She stays with her sister Mackie who is also her best friend. Mackie and her husband Clive have tried to have children for years but pregnancy has always ended in miscarriage. Sarah makes an offer that is second only to donating an organ - she offers to be a surrogate. It's the first part of her p
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Jul 01, 2010
Anita
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This is the third book written by Katherine Center, I read her first two in 2009, The Bright Side of Disaster, and Everyone is Beautiful. I waited several months for this book to be published and couldn't wait to read it.
Sarah Harper has a critical lapse in judgement and loses her big city big time advertising job in NYC. She returns to Houston to her sister and best friend Mackie. Sarah is at first lost on what she is going to do after the Thanksgiving holiday, and then it da More...
Sarah Harper has a critical lapse in judgement and loses her big city big time advertising job in NYC. She returns to Houston to her sister and best friend Mackie. Sarah is at first lost on what she is going to do after the Thanksgiving holiday, and then it da More...
May 24, 2010
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Apr 02, 2010
Kathy (Bermudaonion)
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After successfully heading up a huge ad campaign, Sarah Harper is fired for sending an inappropriate email to everyone on her company’s email list. With her tail between her legs, she heads home to Houston for Thanksgiving. The first thing her sister, Mackie, tells her is that she has given up on becoming pregnant and is ready to move onto a new phase in her life.
Sarah plans to head back to New York after the holiday, but she comes up with a plan to help Mackie, so she ends up ha More...
Sarah plans to head back to New York after the holiday, but she comes up with a plan to help Mackie, so she ends up ha More...
