Isabel Gillies
Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.48 | 4158 Users | 788 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 1439110077 (ISBN13: 9781439110072) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons.When Josiah took a teaching job at a Midwestern college, Isabel and their sons moved with him from New York City to Ohio, where Isabel taught acting, threw herself into the college community, and delighted in the less-scheduled lives of toddlers raised away from the city. But within a few months, the marriage was over. The life Isabel had made crumbled. "Happens every day," said a friend.
Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. Gillies has written a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading this book is like watching a train wreck. On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away. Hers is a remarkable new voice -- instinctive, funny, and irresistible.
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| Title | : | Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story |
| Author | : | Isabel Gillies |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | March 24th 2009 by Scribner / S2e Book Publishing Co. (first published March 2nd 2009) |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Biography Memoir. Marriage. Family Law. Divorce. Family |
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Ratings: 3.48 From 4158 Users | 788 ReviewsCriticize About Books Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
Isabel Gillies has written an 'oh, so quaint' and shallow memoir of her divorce. You might know her from the role she plays on 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' as Kathleen, the wife of Detective Eliot Stabler. In this memoir Ms. Gillies tries to portray the events that led up to her husband's leaving her along with her own feelings about the divorce.Ms. Gillies focuses on the surface ornamentations of life such as designer clothing, expensive home decorations and WASPiness, rarely lookingI'm so mad. I bought this book based on a couple of good reviews, and because I needed to beef up a B&N order to get the $25 free shipping option. Hey, how bad could it be? Oh, so very, very bad. (If this book was a Dancing With the Stars contestant, it would be Steve Wozniak.) It sounds like it was written by a dim-witted 13-year-old, translated into Basque and then translated back into into English by an internet tool. Here's a sentence from page 16: "I was wholly in love with my life: two
The writer's and my experiences are alike in many ways, and so I deeply sympathize/empathize with her. But the writing is amateurish, poorly paced, and largely unreflective. If I ever write my story of this passage (for public consumption), I am going to do a better job of it.
The fact is, affairs and marriage break ups occur every day (thus the title "happens every day"). So, why the book? To get back at her husband of course! The book was self-indulgent and I couldn't get past the "I only care about what happens to my children" sentiments; here's a clue: if you care about your children (who are still very small) you don't write a book about your divorce with their father that someday they will be able to read. You just don't do it.The author had horrible biases
She is not a quote unquote writer, but in some ways that is refreshing. Her style is very unaffected and flows along and pulls you right along, too. I read this book in about two sittings. It's just a story about a marriage breaking up b/c of an affair and I don't know that she says anything profound or that her experience is much different than others. Here are some quotes from it. She's funny a lot:"I wish I were the confident, cool person who can handle women from the past in an unruffled,
I read this book and only one word can describe this book: OUCH. The author Isabel Gillies describes in brutally honest detail the demise of her marriage to a college professor. She appeared to have the perfect life: handsome, brilliant husband, two beautiful boys, a beautiful old house and the good life in a small college town. Into the picture comes a new female professor in her husband's department whom Ms Gillies embraces as a new found friend and within 6 weeks, her marriage is destroyed
The fact is, affairs and marriage break ups occur every day (thus the title "happens every day"). So, why the book? To get back at her husband of course! The book was self-indulgent and I couldn't get past the "I only care about what happens to my children" sentiments; here's a clue: if you care about your children (who are still very small) you don't write a book about your divorce with their father that someday they will be able to read. You just don't do it.The author had horrible biases
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