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Aging with Grace
Grace, a middle aged housewife, is dissatisfied with her looks, her husband and her lifestyle. Grace is certain that she was meant to lead a more exciting life than the one she finds herself in. She finds the thrill she is looking for and more when she reconnects with a high school friend through a social networking website. Suddenly, Grace is hobnobbing with celebrities, wearing designer clothes, and being wooed by Victor, a mysterious Hollywood powerhouse. Soon, Grace is flying off to Malibu on a whim to hook up with Victor, all the while lying to her husband and her two daughters. Grace has no qualms about accepting all Victor has to a fabulous beach house in Malibu with closets full of designer clothes, plastic surgery, a part in a movie as well as a lavish lifestyle. Does Grace finally get everything she always wanted and deserves or is there more to Victor than meets the eye? Find out in this exciting and fast-paced look at selfishness and desire.
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158 pages, Paperback
First published May 28, 2009
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August 6, 2009
Ever feel the need that you're life is at a stand still and you're wondering why you aren't doing what you always thought you were destined to be or do? Aging With Grace will have you rethinking.
Liberman had me glued from page 1 to 156 starting and ending within 3 hours because I just had to know what Grace was going to say or do. Perhaps this is because there are days I feel like I'm on the path of trying to discover why my life is the way that it is and wondering how could I make it more exciting (not about being a mom but wondering how I let the years fly by so fast without doing some of the things I said I'd do)?! I cringed yet loved her "say what's on your mind" attitude without caring what someone thinks (sometimes I think I'm too nice although I wouldn't be so extreme). It was eye-opening in a sense for me, feeling like Grace as the routine housewife/stay at home mom wondering what her life would have been like had things been differently. Like Grace, most of us have that one friend who we feel envious of because of the different lifestyle they lead. I know I do and there are times I want to jump onto the other side to see if the "grass IS greener on the other side". Coming from the perspective of this psychologist/author, Greg Liberman helped me come to terms with some of my own personal issues dealing with certain relationships in my own life. I recommend this book to anyone seeking that desire to change life drastically and recommend they read this first.
You can check out Greg Liberman's author guest post at The Book Faery Reviews here: http://tbfreviews.net/2009/08/06/aging-with-grace-greg-liberman-review-author-guest-post-8-12-09/
Liberman had me glued from page 1 to 156 starting and ending within 3 hours because I just had to know what Grace was going to say or do. Perhaps this is because there are days I feel like I'm on the path of trying to discover why my life is the way that it is and wondering how could I make it more exciting (not about being a mom but wondering how I let the years fly by so fast without doing some of the things I said I'd do)?! I cringed yet loved her "say what's on your mind" attitude without caring what someone thinks (sometimes I think I'm too nice although I wouldn't be so extreme). It was eye-opening in a sense for me, feeling like Grace as the routine housewife/stay at home mom wondering what her life would have been like had things been differently. Like Grace, most of us have that one friend who we feel envious of because of the different lifestyle they lead. I know I do and there are times I want to jump onto the other side to see if the "grass IS greener on the other side". Coming from the perspective of this psychologist/author, Greg Liberman helped me come to terms with some of my own personal issues dealing with certain relationships in my own life. I recommend this book to anyone seeking that desire to change life drastically and recommend they read this first.
You can check out Greg Liberman's author guest post at The Book Faery Reviews here: http://tbfreviews.net/2009/08/06/aging-with-grace-greg-liberman-review-author-guest-post-8-12-09/
February 28, 2016
Grace is a 39 year old bored housewife living in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters. She dislikes her husband, her friends, her figure, her lifestyle, and wonders why her teenage daughter is so nasty to her, not realising that she herself is such a nasty, selfish person.
When she is contacted by an old school friend, April, via a social networking site she is immediately jealous to discover that her friend is now a celebrity hugging fashion photographer to the stars. They meet up for lunch and Grace is invited to a party that evening at April's apartment where she is promised that famous people will be attending. After lying to her husband about where she is going, she meets the rich, handsome and charming Victor who seems smitten with her and he invites her to his Malibu home.
As Grace lies more and more to her family without feeling guilty she soon realises that Victor's world is not all it seems.
My Thoughts:
At only 156 pages I soon sped through the story, the writing style was simple and the characters were believable. I didn't like Grace at all or any of her hypocritical friends, they were all nasty and bitchy, and her husband was a wimp who never really questioned Grace on her whereabouts, he just believed her lies.
One thing that I couldn't understand - Grace was mentioned on the back cover and in the book as being middle-aged - but since when is 39 middle-aged??!
Anyway, apart from that it was an easy book to read, and I did enjoy it overall. One to read while sitting on the beach or in the garden when you just want something light.
When she is contacted by an old school friend, April, via a social networking site she is immediately jealous to discover that her friend is now a celebrity hugging fashion photographer to the stars. They meet up for lunch and Grace is invited to a party that evening at April's apartment where she is promised that famous people will be attending. After lying to her husband about where she is going, she meets the rich, handsome and charming Victor who seems smitten with her and he invites her to his Malibu home.
As Grace lies more and more to her family without feeling guilty she soon realises that Victor's world is not all it seems.
My Thoughts:
At only 156 pages I soon sped through the story, the writing style was simple and the characters were believable. I didn't like Grace at all or any of her hypocritical friends, they were all nasty and bitchy, and her husband was a wimp who never really questioned Grace on her whereabouts, he just believed her lies.
One thing that I couldn't understand - Grace was mentioned on the back cover and in the book as being middle-aged - but since when is 39 middle-aged??!
Anyway, apart from that it was an easy book to read, and I did enjoy it overall. One to read while sitting on the beach or in the garden when you just want something light.
March 2, 2011
The titular character from Aging with Grace by Greg Liberman is described as a middle aged housewife who wants more from her life. She finds the thrills she's been missing when she reconnects with an old high school friend.
What that blurb doesn't tell you is that Grace is wealthy enough to decide on a whim that she needs a facelift. Nor does it tell you that she's willing to lie to her friends and family for her own self gratification. Nor does it explain why after he's been cheated on, lied to and endangered, why her husband would stand by her side and come to her rescue.
Plot wise the book is like Size Eight in a Size Zero World by Meredith Cagen with a main character taken straight out of the The Player by Michael Tolkin. That said, Grace isn't as likable as Cagen's protagonist, nor is she at the other extreme with Tolkin's antihero. That leaves her as a flat, shallow, unlikable and unmemorable character.
What that blurb doesn't tell you is that Grace is wealthy enough to decide on a whim that she needs a facelift. Nor does it tell you that she's willing to lie to her friends and family for her own self gratification. Nor does it explain why after he's been cheated on, lied to and endangered, why her husband would stand by her side and come to her rescue.
Plot wise the book is like Size Eight in a Size Zero World by Meredith Cagen with a main character taken straight out of the The Player by Michael Tolkin. That said, Grace isn't as likable as Cagen's protagonist, nor is she at the other extreme with Tolkin's antihero. That leaves her as a flat, shallow, unlikable and unmemorable character.
August 28, 2009
I hate to say I disliked a book since I know how much work goes into them but I really did not enjoy this one. The writing wasn't my style and I felt like it stated the obvious too often. The main character also was not likeable. I can understand that at the beginning as she is supposed to be a self-centered and superficial person but I was expecting to see some sort of realization towards the end and her working to become a better person. I did not feel we really go that. In the end she is still the horrible, judgmental person and the one good thing she does at the very end seems to come out of the blue.
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