Emily Giffins, United States, 2005, 352pp
Genres: Chick lit, Romance, Comedy
It was early March when an unbelievable change hit us at work. Business slowed down significantly, the hours dragged on, and with plenty of free time, I found myself suddenly craving a romantic novel. My desire was to run away from the unpredictable, sad and scary reality of Covid-19, and somehow enter a parallel world where I was certain I would contemplate some drama of course, but best of all I would be assured of a happy ending.
I borrowed this book randomly from my neighbourhood’s Little Free Library. Eventually after reading some of its chapters and feeling excited about the book in general, I decided to search a bit about the writer. I was basically hoping to find out if Emily Giffins had other books published and if yes, check them out. Only at this moment I realized that there was a movie based on her fiction novel, called Something Borrowed, which motivated me even more to continue reading.
Even though I noticed a few small sections were not that interesting, I simply loved this book. These boring portions made me wonder if the number of pages matter so much to the point of keeping them, or if it is about something else. In my opinion they were unnecessary, but let’s not go there. First, because what is not important to me may be important to someone else – it is a subjective matter, I guess. Second, for the reason that I had already stated and I will repeat, I loved this book regardless.
The heavy part of the story took place in the very beginning of the novel – the terrible betrayal of the best friend, which awakened my curiosity to understand the reasons why this had happened in the first place. It was definitely a page-turner. Interesting to see (once more) how easy it is to prejudge people’s behaviour or attitude when I am totally unaware of the context. Then, after getting the whole picture, how easy it is as well to change my mind to sympathize so much with the traitors. To the point of nearly being on their side, even after acknowledging they were not acting in the best and most honest way.
I am convinced I couldn’t be more astonished and happy than I was with the unexpected ending. Do you like romances, friendship conflicts, and personal struggles (finding our own fights to fight for)? Jump on this book, then! I will doubtless do the same with Giffins’ other books. By the way, for those interested: Giffins is an American ex-lawyer and the author of several New York Times best sellers, among them, Heart of the Matter (2010), Where We Belong (2012), All We Ever Wanted (2018), et cetera.
If you have read this book as well and have a similar or a different opinion, please leave me a comment. I would love to learn something from you.
One response to “Book Review: “Something Borrowed””
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I feel the same way when I read and I noticed that some pages are there to make more volume! Anyway I’m glad you enjoyed the book.
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I feel the same way when I read and I noticed that some pages are there to make more volume! Anyway I’m glad you enjoyed the book.
🙂