The Wedding People

★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10

347 pages

What’s it about?

Phoebe Stone is an adjunct professor living in Missouri and trying to muddle through a painful divorce.  On a whim, she decides to visit the Cornwall Hotel in Rhode Island to fulfill an earlier wish.  Upon arrival, she discovers a large wedding is taking place at the hotel and she is the only guest not involved- when she meets the bride that changes rather quickly.

What did it make me think about?

The importance of accepting and loving yourself.  Always good to be reminded!

Should I read it?

Some novels require you to suspend logic and go with the story.  This was such a book.  I could just hear the members of our book club saying loudly, "But that would never happen!".  I muffled those thoughts and just enjoyed the characters and the story.  It was humorous and also heartwarming.  I thoroughly enjoyed this book- I didn't laugh out loud but I smiled a lot.  "Thank God.  People who take their coffee back are always so smug about it, you know?"  Who doesn't know those smug black coffee types?   After I finished it I realized that I had read another Alison Espach book a few years ago (Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance)and I liked that one as well.  Who knew- I am an Alison Espach fan!

A passage I marked

"I think we talk about happiness all wrong.  As if it's this fixed state we're going to reach.  Like we'll just be able live there, forever.  But that's not my experience with happiness.  For me, it comes and goes.  It shows up and then disappears like a bubble."