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ISBN: 1439110077 (ISBN13: 9781439110072)
Edition Language: English
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Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages
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Title:Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
Author:Isabel Gillies
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First 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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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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Well, as advertised on the cover, I did indeed stay up all night to finish this memoir. Gillies tells a whopper of a story--her super-hot, super adoring poetry professor hubby leaves her almost completely out of the blue for a colleague he's known for 30 seconds. He is, quite simply, a total loser with a messed-up head. But Gillies takes the high road, saying she'd rather light a candle than wallow in the dark or something like that. And I mostly applaud her for that because she has young

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.

I'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

I read a couple of reviews of this that basically described it as "prom queen chats with you at the high-school reunion, has one too many margaritas, and reveals that her life has gone to shit." So of course I had to read it.The author is a successful actress who gave up her career because her husband snagged a professorship at a small, elite college in a rural area. The husband abruptly dumped her for another professor, leaving her in the lurch with two small children.While I feel sad for



I'm starting to feel like the only guy on the planet who's read this book. I thought it was actually pretty good and hard to put down. A lot of people have said the writing is bad- and while it's not Edith Wharton or Henry James, I didn't find the writing bad-- just your average 'every day speak'. For workaday speech, it was fine, cliches and all. I think the point was that it's supposed to feel like someone talking to you, and it does. Additionally, lots of people seem to be dismissing this

God, what an elitist brat! I could not stand her! I live two doors down from "bricky", so I was very excited to read this book bc it is fun to read about the place where you are. I added 1 star purely bc I enjoyed knowing all the little shops and restaurants and buildings she wrote about. She was so disrespectful to the town of Oberlin. It was a classic case of a city snob looking down on the town. I am also from a city and live in this small town, so I am not exempt from being a fucker, but she