Happy All the Time: A Novel | 
pickThis is how my February reading went! It was another great reading month for me. My favorite of these is Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin. I‘m excited to have discovered her. Someone called her the Barbara Pym of the 1970s New York and I agree!
Only read not pictured is:
🎧 How We Learn to Be Brave, Mariann Budde
Last year, I joined the ranks of the Laurie Colwin fanclub. Her novels are of the "not much happens/everything happens" ilk. They capture human foibles and relationships with wisdom and grace, all with a light touch. This one is about two couples figuring out love.
#alphabetgame #letterH @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I thoroughly enjoyed this! It was originally published in 1978 and republished last year. It‘s the story of two men who fall in love with two women, but really don‘t understand them. The characters were entertaining and surprisingly funny. A light read but not too fluffy. It was a nice break between heavier, more serious books. I highly recommend!
Been reading Laurie Colwin this summer. Good quote from her husband about her writing. #girlfriend #quotsy @TK421
Airport reading. My first Laurie Colwin.
Hotel breakfasts with a book - a lovely way to start a day.
pickThis was great. It‘s a cozy book in a lot of ways, and ultimately it‘s about fairly normal relationships - no horrible tragedies or grotesque abuses - even though the characters are (mostly) old-money New Yorkers with rather breezy lives. The writing is lovely, too.
The florist, a stooped old Greek, gave him an expressionless state.
“Death, birth, or you got a girl?” he asked.
“Girl,” said Vincent.
“Yeah,” said the florist. “How much you wanna spend?”
“Lots,” said Vincent.
The florist disappeared into a back room after looking at Vincent in a way that made it clear he dealt regularly with emotionally turbulent men who knew nothing about flowers.
“Guido thought of her as a city-state—strong, well-defended, and perfectly self-sufficient.”
pickThis over the cover of Inter Library Loan makes me crazy. I can't see the cover! As for the book: Happy story of merging different personalities in a relationship and how it brings balance.
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So this just happened tonight! 🎉 Wow!!! I remember my first 42 points back at the end of June. A big MAHALO to all of you for being so wonderful, supportive, caring, and just plain fun!! I love reading and hanging with all of you in the #litsyohana so much! 😀❤️💜💙💚
Laurie Colwin is one of my favorite writers; her novel Family a Happiness is probably in my top five favorites. This one is available on Amazon today for $2.99 and well worth every penny. The social observations of Austen, the neuroses of Woody Allen and lots of descriptions of food.
