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Summary: An interesting experience
Review: For anyone who has ever asked questions about the way they live their life, especially in relation to others, this is a book to explore. Following Lili Wright as she examines the world inside and outside herself, you can feel the learning and growing amid the struggling. As one who struggles while learning and growing, especially when looking at the world from the inside-out, I appreciated her honesty and candor about her experiences.
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Summary: The long journey for love....
Review: For anyone who has struggled to find, and hold on to, love (and who among us hasn't) this book is a great read. The author searches her soul (and psyche) and gives you her view from the drivers seat on the rollercoaster of love. The ups and downs of her love life are adventurous, sad, comical and utterly all to familiar.She acknowledges her own shortcomings, as well as those of her suitors with grace and humor. We laugh with her as she flounders through her 20's and into her 30's. And ultimately Lili makes the journey we've all had to take. As she shares her experiences we can all see a little of ourselves in her travails. She's honest and funny. Read this book and recommend it to a friend who's also going through this struggle, they'll laugh, appreciate it and hopefully they'll be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel as well.
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Summary: Skip it
Review: I picked up this book as a fun summer read, but was disappointed. As a 30-something woman who is probably the same age of the author, I found her amblings to be unoriginal and, frankly, boring. Her difficulties with relationships and the dating world are nothing new - we've all experienced some of the same (so much so that they're trite). So where's the catch? The author doesn't have the same gift of humor as some of the other books flooding the market right now. Her self-proclaimed inability to commit seems to migrate into her style of writing -- failing to be overly humorous, yet failing to get to the bottom of her problems. She tentatively mentions her parents and her father (and reverts to childish quotes from "Grampy") without making any real connection to the roots of her own failed relationships. Her dismissiveness of therapy is probably meant to be funny, but comes across as sad. In the end, her trip seems contrived, like a desperate search for a thesis topic instead of a true search for revelation. Does she ever have an orgasm? Do we care?
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Summary: An Uplifting Tale!
Review: I randomly plucked this book off a table at a beach book shop, more expectng a beach-blanket read, than something as profound and precise as this book was. Not trite like many of its genre, the humanity and brutal nature of love was explored from a nostalgic vantage point as well as a dreamy "what if" one. Anyone who has already devoured the Candace Bushnell books and moved onto the zillion other books on the agnst ridden journey for love by flawed 20 and 30 somethings....should move beyond that, and pick this one up. There is a real story, by a real woman in here.
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Summary: Learning to Float
Review: I started reading this book after I found it on the Barnes and Noble book club list. I just got done reading a very depressing book and I was in the mood for something light and happy and that is just what I found. Lili Wright has an awesome writting style that reminds me of one of my favorite shows, Sex and the City. Lili reveals her past relationship flaws and insecurities she has in order to find more about herlself and about love. She travels to all the places that she spent time with past flames and doing this she feels she will gain closure. This just creates more confussion and she realizes she needs to find out about herself and not about the past men in her life. I enjoyed this book but at times her life seemed a little too much like a soap opera. Read this book if your in the mood for a crazy romantic tale but I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who doesn't like a lot of drama. I would give this book 3 stars.
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Summary: One of the best, most overlooked books of the summer
Review: I thouroughly enjoyed this book and am surprised that more people haven't jumped on the bandwagon in declaring it one of the best books of the summer. Wright's revealing, funny, and ultimately soothing tale of her escape from love only to find it in its true form is a winner. It's always comforting for people of all ages and background to know that they aren't alone - and who hasn't struggled with doubts that they're making the correct decisions in life? Learning to Float lets readers comiserate, laugh, and come away with a sense that it's all going to be alright in the end. Two thumbs up.
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Summary: Big Yawn!
Review: self-absorption at its best. not sure who this book is aimed at. it's not literary, it's not even smutty enough to be a page-turner (true summer reading). it's a lot of navel-gazing. was the publisher an x-boyfriend?
-curious in santa cruz
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Summary: A journey worth enjoying
Review: The author's journey of reminiscing while finding her way felt wonderfully familiar. As a woman the same age, I found myself feeling as though we had so much in common, yet wishing I could have put my own memories to paper the way that she has. Lili has a wonderful way of writing, a whimsical and lyric way of describing things.
Sprinkled through the book, every chapter or so, there is an account of a conversation with "Grampy" on the porch in Maine. I eagerly looked forward to each one, usually finding myself chuckling out loud at his probing questions and humorous insights.
I found myself looking forward to going a little way on Lili's adventure every night, after my kids were in bed. There is just enough sex to make it a definitely grown-up book, somewhat "Sex in the City"ish and very hip . A good read for those of us who have had our adventures, and have moved on, but still have fun reminiscing. This is a book to be slowly enjoyed and savoured.
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Summary: A Sleeper
Review: There are times I see a book cover in the store and decide to take a chance, on rare occasions I am rewarded. This book is one of those occasions. There is a simple charm in the pacing of the book, Grampy on the dock and the fresh description of Key West,the author has a way of poking fun at herself, yet she still comes off as a charmer. The language and metaphors are at times very funny and other times very touching. Her tales of lost love and the lovers she has pushed away are told in a manner that even appeals to an over 50 male. I am glad to read the jacket and find out that she finally "settled down" with Peter. I look forward to her next effort.
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Summary: Saga of a [woman in moral decline]
Review: What begins as a promising self-study lapses into old war stories of late-teen bed hopping, drugs, and aimless amorality. Only a puerile mind could care about how Lili gets herpes and loses her self-respect.
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