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El año que cambió mi vida
La vida amorosa de Lorna es un desastre: sale con un hombre casado, sufre por ser "la otra" y acaba de enterarse de que el se ha conseguido una segunda amante... Las amigas de Lorna la quieren, pero estan hasta las narices de sus lamentos y la emplazan a que vea a un psicologo. Asi empieza un ano de peripecias y situaciones desopilantes -en la consulta y fuera de ella, narradas con frescura y complicidad.
352 pages, Paperback
First published April 3, 2008
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January 2, 2024
Hoping this isn't foreshadowing for 2024.
February 20, 2016
This is story about personal growth. I quite enjoyed it and I hoped for romantic ending, but end was amazing. I found myself in the book and I could imagine how she was feeling, because Lorna reminds me of me.
June 25, 2013
Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: http://readwithstyle.wordpress.com/20...
She is a journalist in the Scottish newspaper Observer. She has a stable and loving family, a good and successful job, and loyal and funny friends. Yet, somehow her life is a total disaster. She misses airplanes and appointments, she spends 2 nights in Thailand in a stranger taxi driver’s home, and she falls in love with a married man. Her name is Lorna Martin, a successful woman of 35, who has a lot of dysfunctional relationships with men, who doesn’t know who she is or what she wants of life. After the last stupid thing in her life, she decides to take measures in her own hands, draws a loan, and starts seeing a therapist to figure out what to do.
At the beginning Martin starts her own rubric in the magazine Grazia called Meetings with the Therapist. People love it so much that she decides to turn it into a book, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Yes, the analogue is quite right – something like Carry Bradshaw but real. Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is the true story of a woman, whose life is a total mess. Martin is painfully honest, strikingly brutal, and amusingly ironic. I loved the book and I am sure every woman will. Lorna manages to uncover all those little secrets and mistakes we women tend to make but are too ashamed to share. And Lorna shares all of this using a unique sarcastic voice, which makes her novel easy and entertaining to read.
I sense that many of you will react Oh boy, yet another one of those self help books. Lorna Martin’s Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is so much more than that. Even if you don’t believe that seeing a therapist can help you solve your life issues, you will find Martin’s honesty absolutely lovable. It takes a lot of bravery to unbare one’s soul to that extent. Because Lorna doesn’t reserve any saucy detail from her peripetia – from the unfortunate relationship with the married lawyer, whom she tortures with endless sentimental (and drunk) messages to the envy towards her sister and her friends’ successes.
Read more: http://readwithstyle.wordpress.com/20...
She is a journalist in the Scottish newspaper Observer. She has a stable and loving family, a good and successful job, and loyal and funny friends. Yet, somehow her life is a total disaster. She misses airplanes and appointments, she spends 2 nights in Thailand in a stranger taxi driver’s home, and she falls in love with a married man. Her name is Lorna Martin, a successful woman of 35, who has a lot of dysfunctional relationships with men, who doesn’t know who she is or what she wants of life. After the last stupid thing in her life, she decides to take measures in her own hands, draws a loan, and starts seeing a therapist to figure out what to do.
At the beginning Martin starts her own rubric in the magazine Grazia called Meetings with the Therapist. People love it so much that she decides to turn it into a book, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Yes, the analogue is quite right – something like Carry Bradshaw but real. Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is the true story of a woman, whose life is a total mess. Martin is painfully honest, strikingly brutal, and amusingly ironic. I loved the book and I am sure every woman will. Lorna manages to uncover all those little secrets and mistakes we women tend to make but are too ashamed to share. And Lorna shares all of this using a unique sarcastic voice, which makes her novel easy and entertaining to read.
I sense that many of you will react Oh boy, yet another one of those self help books. Lorna Martin’s Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is so much more than that. Even if you don’t believe that seeing a therapist can help you solve your life issues, you will find Martin’s honesty absolutely lovable. It takes a lot of bravery to unbare one’s soul to that extent. Because Lorna doesn’t reserve any saucy detail from her peripetia – from the unfortunate relationship with the married lawyer, whom she tortures with endless sentimental (and drunk) messages to the envy towards her sister and her friends’ successes.
Read more: http://readwithstyle.wordpress.com/20...
January 19, 2013
I wasn't enthralled with this book but I did pick it up before because I thought that I was having the same dilemma.
I deeply appreciate her brutal honesty in sharing her experience though and could somewhat relate to some of her character flaws however teeth cringing it may be at times that I often felt really frustrated with the character.
The book is about Lorna Martin, a professional semi successful journalist who from a repressed childhood experience, grew up to one day write a book about her experience in having a mental breakdown. To which I finished reading in a light note of her recovery.
I deeply appreciate her brutal honesty in sharing her experience though and could somewhat relate to some of her character flaws however teeth cringing it may be at times that I often felt really frustrated with the character.
The book is about Lorna Martin, a professional semi successful journalist who from a repressed childhood experience, grew up to one day write a book about her experience in having a mental breakdown. To which I finished reading in a light note of her recovery.
January 4, 2020
I didn't read the synopsis before I started reading this book. If I had, i probably wouldn't have borrow it.
This book was a total surprise. I didn't drop it from my hands from the first page.
This book was a total surprise. I didn't drop it from my hands from the first page.
January 28, 2016
Way Better than Bridget Jones.
June 7, 2024
When I first bought this book I just thought the title was funny and relatable then it sat on my bookshelf for far too long, oops. When I picked it up to start reading it I thought it’ll be average at most but I said I’d give it a go anyway, boy was I very wrong. The author is so brutally honest about her life that it’s almost scary, it made me question things about myself and ponder about my own life in a way that I didn’t think possible. This book may not be everyone’s cup of tea but as a girl in her 20s who’s utterly confused about what’s she’s doing with her life or where she’s headed it was an amazing read even the fact that she didn’t get that happy ending that I was convinced she was leading up to just put life into perspective a little bit
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February 24, 2019
I found Lorna Martin very annoying and frustrating.
I thought through the whole book that she will become more normal, but she keeps beeing psycho.
Especially in the end with Peter, she could do better.
I felt disappointed in the end of the book.
I thought through the whole book that she will become more normal, but she keeps beeing psycho.
Especially in the end with Peter, she could do better.
I felt disappointed in the end of the book.
June 1, 2017
Amazing book about our true life and lessons
April 15, 2022
Nije mi se svidjela iako volim psiholoske knjige.Obo je prava psiholoska,a ne triler na koju su mi ga temu preporucili.Glavni lik bila mi je simpaticna ali nista specijalno
September 28, 2020
Reía en voz alta con cada anécdota. Una chica narra su experiencia asistiendo a terapia, por primera vez.
December 28, 2015
Tema zene koja nakon sto si zivot ne moze uhvatiti ni za glavu ni za rep pa zapocinje terapiju zvuci pomalo kao roman reklama za self help, ali naprotiv meni je bilo lagano zensko stivo o tome kako pojedinac u danasnjem svijetu pokusava zadrzati zdrav razum uz sve te glupe ideje savrsene karijeristice-majke-supruge-domacice koja na kraju krajeva provodi zivot frustrirana u nemogucnosti da sve zadovolji, puna griznje savjesti jer je "drugima teze" i okupirana sitnicama kako bih zanemarila kako se zapravo osjeca. Ovako napisano zvuci pretenciozno, no zbilja nije - pouka price je zivjeti u trenutku, odabrati zivotne uloge koje nam odgovaraju, prozivjeti emociju i okretati nove stranice zivota neoptereceni prosloscu.
July 7, 2010
My landlord bought me this book as a gift....I think because I have a red coat like the woman pictured on the cover... or at least I hope so! This book was only mediocre to me. It was interesting to see the reactions and results of someone who is going through extensive therapy. But I didn't actually care for the ending and kind of felt like it was just an extension of the therapy itself. If you get the book for free, and you don't have anything else to read, go for it. Definitely don't purchase this book.
June 12, 2016
I really liked this one. I believe it was an honest autobiographical review of a year in one woman's life. I laughed and I sympathized with the main character / author. Sometimes I wanted to punch her in the face / shake her / yell at her. But, underneath everything, I believed her. I like her openness, I like that she's telling it as it is, without apologizing or trying to present herself as a likeable person. She did not change my life, but she made think about myself and some things. And that's the point, I think. Anyhow, I do recommend it!
July 21, 2010
Actually quite funny in parts - how she's trying to "fix" herself. Doesn't really manage it but I think the end is about her working on learning to live with herself - with all her neuroses. Initially bought it 'cause it has the same title (play on words) as Pedro Almadovars "Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown" ("Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios").
February 16, 2015
At the beginning, it was boring for me, not so easy to read, describing all the stories from the therapy and all the inner life of the author, chaotic thoughts... Now, I´ve been thinking about myself, I would like to undergo a therapy to improve the quality of my life :) :) The end was unexpected, but realistic and I liked the book so much.
January 24, 2015
Хареса ми тази книга! Може би и защото наскоро се бях върнала от Глазгоу, а действието се развива там и ми беше още по-приятно да я чета. Може би защото прилича на чиклит, но само в положителен смисъл. Без големи претенции, с достатъчно чувство за хумор и без предсказуем финал. Жалко, че за повечето от нас психотерапията си остава недостъпна, а съм сигурна че имаме нужда.
April 4, 2013
This book is very special to me, it was a gift from an old friend. Its a very girly story about a mess of a woman we can all relate to. Having hit rock bottom she engages on a intense year of therapy. The story its meant to be light and entertaining with no hidden intentions.
August 16, 2013
Sometimes liked sometimes not. Hard to read at times and breezed through at others. Challenging.
I genuinely worry about writing something negative because even the post therapy Lorna seems as if she would over analyse what I had said.
I genuinely worry about writing something negative because even the post therapy Lorna seems as if she would over analyse what I had said.
July 9, 2011
Brave Lorna Martin to document her personal journey through therapy. I enjoyed the first two thirds but towards the end found my will to read flagging.
November 12, 2012
Somes Im feeling like a... WHAT??? Its some kind of me... Scaring...
December 28, 2012
No me gusto.. no tiene trama....... no tiene un punto que digas tu.. wow!.. y es muy x.
March 17, 2013
Veramente bello :) si legge veloce e scorrevole, ma porta a riflettere molto sulle proprie reazioni e su quelle degli altri. Un libro sicuramente da leggere, da meditare, e da prestare.
July 31, 2013
Similar to Bridget Jones but a little deeper and psychological.
April 30, 2014
A Bridget Jones-esque wander through the process of intensive psychotherapy
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