What Alice Forgot in Around the World in 80 Books

Jun 02, 2015 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, chick-lit, womens-day

I inhaled this book, and I adored this book.

This book just hit that sweet spot inside me where the very best books go. I don't even know how Moriarty does it, on the surface her characters are people I don't identify with, and yet ... I identify. Oh, how I identify!!

I've seen a lot of reviews discussing whether this is "chick lit" or "psychological thriller" or something else entirely. It's none of those. It's not genre fiction. This is about how people change (or don't change) as they age, how ...more

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May 30, 2022 superawesomekt rated it really liked it · review of another edition

There are a few best-selling authors that I have wanted to read, and Moriarty is one of them. The premise for this novel was intriguing and I found myself breezing through it. I think I found it especially interesting because I have 3 kids, have been married for about 12 years, and so related very much to the bewildered "how did I get here???" of in-the-thick-of-it parenting and "who is this person I married and why?"—not because I am having a marital crisis at present but just, man, it's hard s ...more

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Sep 20, 2014 Stephanie Zundel-Smith rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2014

I almost gave this book 3 stars instead of 4, but the reason I didn't was that this book made me think a lot about what things I would change in my life if I forgot the last 10 years. Wasn't a life changing book, but I do think it was a nice twist on a second chance book. ...more

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Apr 10, 2018 Jillian rated it it was amazing

4.5 stars. Really solid compelling book, good writing, interesting characters. Kept me turning the pages nonstop. Minus .5 star for some literary cliches and parts that felt a little slow. Otherwise I was really interested in this plot, the very believable reality of younger and older Alice, and the question of what would our younger selves would think of the people we’ve become? How can we learn from their perspective? How do memories shape the people we are, and what are we without them?

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