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The Book Club :
Happens Every Day

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 amitheow (original poster member #4691) posted at 2:03 PM on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

I find this book EXTREMELY depressing !!!!

I know it's a true story of an A - and how she overcame it. I haven't slept since I started reading it.

WARNING!

Old Timer, Just here to help
My screen name is: Am I The Ow? - Not Ami the OW.

Because in my situation I didn't know if I was the OW at first or if I was being cheated on. Found I was being cheated on.

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whispercloud3 ( member #12872) posted at 12:28 PM on Thursday, December 8th, 2011

I read it a few years ago. I cried the whole time I was reading it. I was so upset by it that I emailed the author, Isabel Gillies, and she emailed me back. We corresponded a tiny bit and she was so nice and real that I felt like I was talking to a friend on

SI. It is worth reading if you can get through it.

No Dan, we were bowling partners.

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solus sto ( member #30989) posted at 9:12 PM on Thursday, December 8th, 2011

She's the actress who plays Elliott Stabler's wife on SVU, isn't she?

No wonder she was able to give such an honest performance about leaving a marriage (albeit not due to infidelity---more due to Stabler's "mistress," his job) onscreen.

Her new book is supposed to be quite good, too.

BS-me, 62; X-irrelevant; we’re D & NC. "So much for the past and present. The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to let that scare you." Tennessee Williams

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Cally60 ( member #23437) posted at 11:45 PM on Sunday, December 11th, 2011

I, too, found the book sad and often depressing, but I was nevertheless riveted to it, and I don't regret reading it.

I didn't know she'd written a new book. Thank you for the information, Solus sto. I went to Wikipedia to find out more about it and was interested to read there that "Happens Every Day" was selected as one of NPR's "Fresh Air" Top Ten books for 2009.

PS I'm a L&O fan, and I freely admit that it was the author's SVU role that originally drew me to the book!

[This message edited by Cally60 at 5:52 PM, December 11th (Sunday)]

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