Since moving to Amsterdam I’ve been reading a lot more. I feel totally guilty sitting on the train on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, so instead, I read. And I’ve come across some amazing books that I just had to share with you! Here’s a brief synopsis of each of my most recent reads – all so amazing!! I highly, highly recommend each one!
The Happiness Project: This New York Times best seller is the memoir of the year author Gretchen Rubin spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. An inspiring read for even the happiest person.
The Paris Wife: This unforgettable (dare I say haunting) novel tells the story of Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley: How they met and fell in love, and then about their remarkable time spent in Paris among literary greats like Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. This is an amazing, heart wrenching love story. Weeks after I’ve finished it I can’t stop thinking about it!
What Alice Forgot: Straight from Amazon: Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first child. So imagine her surprise when, after a fall, she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! she HATES the gym!) and discovers that she’s actually thirty-nine, has three children, and is in the midst of an acrimonious divorce. A knock on the head has misplaced ten years of her life, and Alice isn’t sure she likes who she’s become. It turns out, though, that forgetting might be the most memorable thing that has ever happened to Alice.
And since it’s the season of giving, and I loved these books so much, I decided that I’d host a little giveaway! Whoever wins can pick whichever one of these books sounds the best and I’ll ship it to them – my little Christmas gift to you! If you’d like to win you just have to:
My email address is cassandralynn23@gmail.com and I just started following you on twitter.
My tweet name is @inthebasketcass and I don't know how to link tweets yet, but I wrote: “Bored and need a book to read or WIN? Go to http://www.exploredreamdiscoverblog.com. Hurry, giveaway ends the 16th!”
I am now following your blog. Thank you so much for this giveaway, you have awesome taste in books! 🙂
I would love to win The Paris Wife!
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I also tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/egood33/status/147042435044872192
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The Paris Wife was so AMAZING!!! You're right, it has definitely stuck with me. I also thought Bossypants was very funny! Now I would love to win What Alice Forgot, sounds really interesting!
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so fun! i LOVE the happiness project – and have been dying to read bossypants! i'd pick that one for sure. 🙂
i would love a copy of the happiness project! xo
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I've read Bossypants and LOVED it, so I'd really like to win The Paris Wife. I've heard nothing but amazing things about it!
id love to read the paris wife and then lend it to my mother in law when im done!
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Have wanted to read the Happiness Project for a while now, but the Paris Wife sounds intriguing as well!
I've been meaning to read The Paris Wife, it would be such a treat after finishing finals.
-Lauren from Vancouver
I'd love to read What Alice Forgot.
I would love to read What Alice Forgot! sounds like a great book.
What Alice Forgot sounds amazing! SDsunshiine@yahoo.com
Am 10 years late on this post, but have read and loved 3 of 4 of these books. Are you on Good Reads yet? I'd love to follow your bookshelf!