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We Hope You Like This Song: An Overly Honest Story About Friendship, Death, And Mix Tapes (2012)

by Bree Housley(Favorite Author)

4.3 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1580054315 (ISBN13: 9781580054317)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Seal Press

review 1: I picked this book randomly for our new book club's first selection. I was touched by all of the close friendships in the book and it made me think about how much harder it is to find and maintain friendships as we get older. Housley was so honest about herself, good and bad. We get to know her warts and all. For some readers, the profanity may be an issue but it seemed to me like it was appropriate for the story and someone the author's age.
review 2: The author is a friend of friends and hails from Iowa, so I am thrilled to support her! It is a quick read that is packed with moving memories of the author's dear friend, as well as the results of the author's (and her supportive sister's) weekly experiments to try and embrace life in friend's spirit. I ... morealways love books about people who try things outside of their comfort zone, and this fits the bill. Housley makes the reader feel her her anxiety as she plans her tasks, and is equally successful in documenting how it feels to take each leap: the courage she summons and the personal rewards received. All of this is interwoven with her memories of elementary school, Jr. High and high school...a time when your friends mean everything. I love that it made me stop and reflect on my friendships over the years - instead of focusing of how my friends and I are alike, I am committed to really appreciating how we are different, and how I can use the strength of those bonds to emulate what I admire in the women I am lucky enough to have in my life. Definitely worth the read, and a book that will stick with you. less

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