A review by gissellereads
How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents about Building a Happy Marriage by Jo Piazza

funny inspiring fast-paced

5.0

This book reads like Fiction! I loved it so much and can’t recommend it enough. So what is so special about this book you may ask? You’re probably thinking you don’t need to read a book to tell you how to be married. Well, let me tell you this is not a guide of how to be married but more of how people in different countries approach marriage and what the author learned travelling the world and as a newly married woman. I think of this book as a memoir and not a self help book. The only thing I would change about the book is the title because I think more people would read it.

While reading this book I was taking notes of places to travel to. Piazza didn’t only talk about what she learned while traveling but she also talked about where she went and what she did there. So many of these places are on my list of places I want to go to so I felt like I also got travel recommendations. It definitely gave me the travel bug and I can’t wait to travel places soon!

There are many things that I took away from this book and so many things that resonated with me. Also there were things people do or advice that she got that I questioned and definitely got me thinking. At the end of the day she’s not telling the reader how to be married or even saying she is the best person to provide advice. What I got from it was a raw and honest story with some perspectives of marriage from different point of views.