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How to Be Single
by Liz Tuccillo
This book was ok. A set of late 30 something women who only have a connection to the main character Alice are living in NYC and realizing that being single isn't as awesome as all the magazines said it was. Alice in an uncharacteristic impulsive moment, pitches a book about how being single is viewed globally to her boss. She gets a modest advance, takes a leave from her job and embarks on a trip around the world as research. Her girlfriends all make trips overseas to spend time with her. While they are in NYC, they end up becoming friends on their own, since Alice is somewhere else for most of the book. I never really liked any of the main characters. They were just bland. The color and interest comes from the people Alice meets in Paris, Rome, Brazil, Beijing,
My guess is that the movie will only faintly resemble this book. All the characters' names have changed except Alice and the trailer only shows the cast in NYC not travelling the world.
Updated to add: the movie was much better than the book! When does that ever happen? Basically the movie is 20-somethings (and Alice's 30-something obstetrician sister) in New York going to bars, sleeping with dudes, figuring it out. Nothing new, sure but the movie is funny. Something that the book definitely wasn't. Rebel Wilson's Robin is totally over the top and sometimes too much. But her loud, bold antics were a nice contrast to Alice's quieter revelations.
This counts as a book that's becoming a movie this year for the 2016 PopSugar Reading Challenge.
4/41
My guess is that the movie will only faintly resemble this book. All the characters' names have changed except Alice and the trailer only shows the cast in NYC not travelling the world.
Updated to add: the movie was much better than the book! When does that ever happen? Basically the movie is 20-somethings (and Alice's 30-something obstetrician sister) in New York going to bars, sleeping with dudes, figuring it out. Nothing new, sure but the movie is funny. Something that the book definitely wasn't. Rebel Wilson's Robin is totally over the top and sometimes too much. But her loud, bold antics were a nice contrast to Alice's quieter revelations.
This counts as a book that's becoming a movie this year for the 2016 PopSugar Reading Challenge.
4/41