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this is your classic chick-lit: unexpected situation arises, women deals with unexpected situation, learns about herself in the process (while having men throw themselves at her), happy ending. im generally a sucker for these kind of stories, but something was missing for me to really relate to it. i want to say its because im just not at the point of life where ive been married, have an ex-husband, and children. but ive related to characters in this situation before, so im not sure why i just c...
This book was such a fun, heartwarming story! In The Overdue Life of Amy Byler, librarian Amy finds herself face-to-face with her separated husband John, who’s requesting permission to visit their children, Cori and Joe, after abandoning the family 3 years earlier. Amy is torn: dealing with her own unresolved feelings about John, and considering what’s truly best for their children. After discussions with the kids, Amy agrees to let John spend time with them in rural PA now that it’s summer. Whi...
Kelly Harms has written a light, fun read about a middle aged librarian who gets a chance to have a summer to herself while her estranged husband re-bonds with his children.When Amy Byler's husband went on a business trip to Hong Kong three years ago and never returned, she suddenly found herself a single, unemployed mother of two children with a large mortgage and no child support. Life gradually got better once she got herself a job as a school librarian and re-mortgaged the house, but she and...
Quit reading this review and go read this book! It is laugh-out-loud hilarious and I still can't figure out how Harms can so seamlessly transition from writing a snarky but charming teenager to writing a full grown woman in the midst of her #momspringa (Don't know what that is? Well, GO READ THE BOOK.) in a matter of a page. I could not put this book down!! I'd give it 10 stars if I could!
Amy was forced to be a single mother when her husband abandoned her and their two kids three years earlier. She cut back expenses, got a job as a school librarian, and survived without the help of any child support. When her husband abruptly shows up and wants to catch up with the kids over the summer, she agrees because she wants the children to have a good relationship with him even if she doesn’t.Her old friend Talia lives in New York City and works at a fashion magazine, so Amy heads to New
4.5 STARSWhat a wonderful story to escape in! Amy is a single mother of 2 teenaged children. Her husband up and left the family 3 years ago. He now returns to make amends and wants to spend the summer with the kids and Amy goes off on an adventure...(first unwanted)...to NYC.I loved Amy! This story is very heartwarming and easy to follow. The writing is wonderful. You are rooting for Amy all throughout the story. She is quite endearing!! For fellow book lovers there are many nods to popular book...
Look at me. I am a modern woman! I am Gloria Steinem and Helen Gurley Brown and the slutty one from Sex and the City all wrapped up in one.A straitlaced librarian mother of two gets to experience the glamorous life when her AWOL husband returns to entertain the kids for a few weeks. Her momspringa turns into a voyage of self discovery, makes her a minor celebrity, and instills a sassy new attitude in our plucky heroine. There's no doubt that the film rights have already been sold, and with a few...
[3+] This is my kind of romance! Fun and lighthearted with a relatable, witty heroine whose life has been all work since her husband's desertion. Her vacation is overdue! There are two believable kids, lots of book talk and a hot NYC librarian. Sure, some of the moments are too good to be true but that's what an escape is all about.
2.5 stars, rounded upWhen will I ever learn? I keep thinking I’ll enjoy a romantic comedy. I WANT to like romantic comedies. But in truth, I tend to find most of them too simplistic for my taste. They usually start ok and then get dorky. This one tried to be more than just a rom-com with some single parent angst and a family crisis towards the end. But it just didn’t work for me. A little too simplistic and saccharine sweet. The book is told from two viewpoints, Amy’s narrative and her daughter...
I have been slogging through a really difficult, and not particularly rewarding, book. So I thought this would be a light, amusing read - a nice break from the other book. Whew - I went from the arcane to the inane. She lost me at "Flexthology" - the main character's terribly named program to get kids to read, which we are supposed to believe just wowed a room full of educators and librarians (including, of course, the one-in-a-million hot librarian who presumably falls for her on the basis of f...
3.75 rounded up! What does any “self-actualized, successful, capable adult woman” do when confronted in the drugstore by the husband who abandoned her and her two children? Try to duck behind the Q-tips, of course! He has been gone for THREE years, but now John wants HIS life back. When ducking behind the shelves fails, Amy reluctantly listens to what John has to say, and unselfishly agrees to allows him time with the kids, so he can attempt to mend his relationship with them. With nothing to do...
🅡🅔🅛🅐🅣🅐🅑🅛🅔. 🅗🅘🅛🅐🅡🅘🅞🅤🅢. 🅕🅐🅝🅣🅐🅑🅤🅛🅞🅤🅢. Kelly harms! BRAVO! This was such a relatable story told with so much heart and humor, I absolutely adored it! Amy is the single mother of 15-year-old Cory and 12-year-old Joe. Three years ago Amy’s husband John went out of country for work and never came back. Amy picked her self up, dusted herself off, went back to work, and learned how to be a single parent. Now John is back wanting to repair his relationship with his Children and offering Amy a summer off f...
This story is just one giant eye roll.
