Ex Libris Kirkland

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Subtitle The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
First Written 2023
Genre Memoir
Origin US
Publisher Avid Reader
ISBN-10 1668015501
My Copy library copy
First Read August 02, 2024

How to Stay Married



This was indeed a crazy book; not that the events are so outlandish, but that the author actually wrote and published it. It's not a how-to - it's a memoir about his wife's affair and how they handled it. Harrison Scott Key is a humor writer (thus far?) and so makes a lot of jokes, but this is pretty crushing. Highly recommended. I sped thru it in an afternoon and I'm dying to talk to people about it now.

Noted on August 9, 2024

Possessing all the necessary virtues of a future Church of Christ preacher, including testicles and a love of my own voice, I had no choice but to give the sermon. I'd heard thousands of sermons in my young life, maybe too many. I have always felt pity for people who did this for a living. You try writing and delivering a new TED talk or two every week for ten or twenty or thirty years, based on a book nobody reads, baring your inmost thoughts for a crowd of friendlies who've heard it all before and strangers who'd rather be washing a cat.

Quoted on August 9, 2024

And the voice of the LORD thundereth marvelously from the whirlwind and said, "Stop googling."

Quoted on August 9, 2024


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