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Meghan Fitzmorris is the host of a morning show and her sister Bridget is a social worker. Meghan says a profanity on air and chaos ensues. The first 2/3 of the book is pretty light, talking about New York society and television. Then the last 1/3 of the book takes a major turn into the depressing which I didn't like. The end of the book suddenly leaps forward five years with a rushed summary of where the characters are now. I would have liked the book better without the melodramatic ending.
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Apparently I've read this book before. I didn't realize that until about half way through when I came upon this sentence: "Some day I'm going to meet a man who leaves his wife out of a deep sense of ennui and a feeling that there's something more out there for him." Which was the sentence that taught me the meaning of ennui. Even after realizing I'd read it before, I didn't remember the story. It wasn't a terrible story, it was engrossing. It's just hard to really take anything away from a book
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My feelings on this book, like the writing itself, are mixed. The plot itself was kind of a bore to me (Meghan Fitzmaurice is sort of a Katie Couric kind of a character, and I can't stand Katie Couric, so I really didn't care about Meghan Fitzmaurice) and I didn't agree with much of the narrator (Meghan's sister)'s worldview, but I really enjoyed the descriptions about life in New York City. Some of the narration was uneven, jumping from musing to present day to flashback without smooth transiti
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Dec 22, 2007
Kat (A Journey In Reading)
marked it as to-read
Jun 02, 2012
Kirsten Barber
marked it as to-read
Jan 26, 2013
Ginger
marked it as to-read
Jun 30, 2015
Hazel
marked it as to-read
Dec 14, 2017
Terri
marked it as own
