Title: All My Restless Life to Live
Author: Dee DeTarsio
Publication date: April 29th 2013
Publication date: April 29th 2013
Award-winning author Dee DeTarsio combines life’s darker side with humor and tenderness in a wonderfully charming look at love and the afterlife.
Life is a soap opera, especially for Elle Miller, who is a TV producer. (Ellen dropped the “n” in her name in hopes of finding a better ending for herself.) When her laptop crashes, she borrows her dead dad’s computer and gets way more than she bargained for.
As Elle tries to save her career with a storyline featuring a trip through Atlantis, she takes a trip to the Emmys, and finds herself in the middle of a romance between a real doctor and a hunk who just plays one on TV. Friends, family, and clues from “the other side” all help Elle figure out the difference between living the good life . . . and living a good life.
Life is a soap opera, especially for Elle Miller, who is a TV producer. (Ellen dropped the “n” in her name in hopes of finding a better ending for herself.) When her laptop crashes, she borrows her dead dad’s computer and gets way more than she bargained for.
As Elle tries to save her career with a storyline featuring a trip through Atlantis, she takes a trip to the Emmys, and finds herself in the middle of a romance between a real doctor and a hunk who just plays one on TV. Friends, family, and clues from “the other side” all help Elle figure out the difference between living the good life . . . and living a good life.
What most guys don’t
know, is that women’s fiction has a
lot on offer. I don’t think I’m being presumptuous about the reading
habits of XYs. My husband (who has earned his title of “beditor”)
wouldn’t be caught dead reading *girl* stuff,
unless I convince him otherwise.
His biggest complaint is that “women sure do think
a lot.” That’s
right, we do. Live and learn, hombres.
What can guys learn from chick lit? Lots of cool stuff. Like
women think it’s sexier for guys
to fill up our cars with gas, than to play bongos on our ass. (See what we did
there, it’s sing-songy and rhymes so guys can easily remember it.)
It’s not like men are from Jupiter, that’s
why they’re stupider . . . (though if the planet fits!) This is just
an open invitation to those he-men of the universe to take a ride on the chick
slide. (That sounds dirty but maybe it will help attract their attention.)
There are so many smart, fun women writers, it would be great if
guys would read it and weep. For extra relationship-bonus points, they can share
their feelings in a bedtime book report! And they all lived happily
ever after . . .
Dee DeTarsio is a graduate of The Ohio State University and lives in southern California with her family. She did not teach herself to read at an early age or write stories by the time she was in kindergarten. She was still wetting the bed and playing in the can cupboard.
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