Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

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There were positive aspects of the book too though. As always Marian's books deal with tough issues which I enjoy as they are always handled respectfully and the author always manages to keep the tone light hearted. The book was funny, Lucy's room mates and colleagues kept the book entertaining and were a lot more relatable than she was. Me gustó ene, aunque se nota que es de los '90 porque qué maneras de hacer bromas trilladas sobre los gays y los gorditos. Keyes lives in Dún Laoghaire with her husband Tony Baines (whom she first met on his 30th birthday [5]) after returning to Ireland from London's Hampstead in 1997. [5] Style [ edit ]

As her relationship with Gus develops she starts to realise that maybe he is not Mr Fantastic after all, things don't add up and he really likes a good drink, is he worth it? Especially as Daniel seems to be looking at her with eyes more akin to a lover than a friend. The entire series was released on DVD for the first time in Australia (Region 4) on Thursday 5 June 2008. I loved thunderstorms - the only time I really felt at peace with myself was during a storm. All of the turmoil and exuberance seemed to calm me.”

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Another topic which really stood out to me with the fresh eyes of a re-read is the storyline of alcoholics and alcoholism. The impacts not only on the individual suffering from it, but on their friends and family. And the relationship patterns that tend to repeat from one generation to another. Being a charming, affable drunk in your 20s, doesn’t have quite the same amount of appeal in middle age, when the tarnish in the gilt is showing. And people are just plain exhausted from dealing with unreliability. The plot is pretty straightforward; Lucy is told by a psychic that she will be married in a year. As Lucy is currently single she's cynical, but when the psychic's other predictions come true she begins to take it more seriously. The plot mainly consists of a love triangle with a pretty obvious outcome. This really affected my enjoyment of the book as I think love triangles only work when you have reasons to root for both of the competing men/women and can't predict who the main character will choose. However, it was obvious from the beginning who Lucy would end up with. When Lucy Sullivan is dragged by her friends to visit a psychic, she thinks it will be a bit of a laugh. She doesn’t believe for one second that the prediction will come true; there’s just no way that she will be married within the year! Of course, Lucy is told that she will be getting married. Within a year. But who could it be? She doesn’t even have a boyfriend. She's just broken up with him. But as predictions for her workmates start to come eerily true, Lucy wonders if the gorgeous, eccentric Gus, who she’s fallen in lust with at a party, Gus of the Irish accent, twinkling eyes, and faerie dust blarney, could be “the one”. Everything seems to be pointing that way.

Sure, I HATED HATED HATED, (did I say hated?) some characters (Karen and Gus), but even they seemed normal, real, people we've all dealt with at one time or another. I seemed to spend my whole life oscillating between feeling horribly conspicuous and then feeling totally invisible. Lucy works in an office. Lucy is bored with her job. Lucy lives on low-fat diet yoghurt throughout the week, then splurges on pizza, curries and drinks on the weekend. Lucy’s wages are spent the day she gets paid. Lucy has a very difficult relationship with her mother. Lucy adores her father. Lucy lives for Friday nights and the weekend. Lucy has just dropped her boyfriend for being “too nice”. She didn’t entirely trust him for being this way. For making her feel too comfortable. She was disappointed at his neverending tenderness and devotion. It made her suspicious. It was driving her to distraction ”I had expected a wolf and had been fobbed off with a sheep.” He had to go. a b c "BBC One - imagine..., 2022, Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life". BBC . Retrieved 8 February 2022.

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This was one hard to find DVD... but one the dedicated Gerry Butler fan can't really live without. I finally got my copy from New Zealand a few weeks ago and did a marathon viewing of all 16 episodes. From the bits and pieces I had seen before, I thought the series is rather shallow and very light hearted but I was surprised. There are some good, rather deep story lines dealing with the hassle of the daily, modern life as problems at your job, problems with your family and so on. Of course a good mix of good (and bad) romances are thrown in as well. I thought the acting was overall pretty good especially in some of the supporting roles like Lucy's parents. I think we’ve all had those awful gauche, awkward moments. Where we’re convinced the world is watching us and we just didn’t feel so uncomfortable in our own skin. Like it didn’t quite fit. The ending was very sweet and I smiled to myself. I always wished that Marian Keyes would revisit the characters in this book and do a sequel with Lucy actually married to the guy she was destined to marry. I had expected disrespect and instead got devotion, I had expected infidelity and instead got commitment, I had expected upheaval and instead got predictability and (most disappointing of all) I had expected a wolf and had been fobbed off with a sheep.

a b Fox-Leonard, Boudicca (9 September 2017). "Marian Keyes: 'As a child I was scared I would become an alcoholic' ". The Telegraph . Retrieved 20 October 2017. I spent a couple of days wondering why I liked the blokes who weren’t nice to me? Why couldn’t I like the ones who were? I really enjoyed the writing, the apt description of complex emotions (like a certain type of humiliation) or thoughts that go through your head during certain sitations. Even just descriptions of day to day struggles (like getting out of bed each morning for work) was just dead on.I had expected a short-lived, passionate, rollercoaster of an affair, where my nerves would be stretched to twanging point waiting for his call, then my whole body would be flooded with ecstasy when he did ring. I felt a sense of trepidation attending today’s Bookclub at lunchtime, as this is when I’d hear what they thought of this book. Gulp. It wasn’t “officially” chosen as the Bookclub read. It kind of just happened...I mentioned I was reading it at our last catchup, and how much I was wallowing in my nostalgia train of happiness, when Jo said “Let’s read this one”, and the rest is history. As I mentioned in the body of my review, I was super surprised that this was selected as our Bookclub book, as we have some very serious readers in our group. I’m talking super smart readers. Yes, literary prize readers. Hard hitters. I’m talking “War and Peace” readers. Whereas I read for fun and pleasure. For the sheer enjoyment of it. If I learn something along the way, that’s great. I’m an emotive reader. I don’t go out of my way to select books that will necessarily challenge me. Enough of that happening in daily life. This is an easy read that I think is great for passing the time, but there isn't much substance to it. I'm a big fan of Marian Keyes work and am currently working my way through all of her books. I had really high hopes for this, as like I said, I'm a big fan of the author, but I found myself disappointed.

Keyes has written frankly about her clinical depression, which left her unable to sleep, read, write, or talk. After a long hiatus due to severe depression, a food title, Saved by Cake, was published in February 2012. [8] Lucy Sullivan's been told she is getting married . . . but to who? She doesn't even have a boyfriend yet . . . Nah, nggak heran kan kalau kemudian dia selalu mendapat masalah dengan pria? Yang dia pilih selalu pria-pria berengsek tukang mabuk, pengangguran, memoroti uangnya, dsb. dst. Parahnya lagi, dia kadang sadar kalau pilihan dia salah, tapi tetap saja melakoninya, malah mengusir pria-pria 'waras' yang jatuh hati padanya. Bahkan tidak sadar-sadar bahwa selama ini ada pria sempurna yang mendambakannya setengah mati. Damn you, Lucy!! Bagaimana saya bisa bersimpati coba? Walaupun kemudian ada penjelasan bahwa perilaku aneh Lucy itu karena ayahnya alkoholik dan sejak kecil dia berusaha menutup mata agar semua terlihat baik-baik saja, jadi dia memilih pria-pria busuk seperti ayahnya agar mendapat kesempatan kedua untuk memperbaiki keadaan. Megan was doing her grand tour of Europe and had temporarily run out of money. But as soon as she had enough money to go, she was going, she constantly reminded us, to Scandinavia, or Greece, or the Pyrenees, or the West of Ireland. I was suffocating from his adulation, smothering in his admiration. I wasn’t that attractive, I couldn’t help thinking, and if he thought that I was, it meant there was something wrong with him.

And, naturally, I didn’t believe a word that came out of his mouth. When he said that I was the only girl in his life, I assumed that he was lying, when he told me I was lovely I looked for the angle on it, walked all around it, inspecting it, to see what he wanted from me. So it’s definitely not “Coral”?’ Megan took a little notebook out of her holdall and drew a line through something. Because you’re beautiful,’ or ‘Because you’re sexy,’ or ‘Because you’re all woman,’ were the nauseating replies that he gave me. Eventually Lucy meets Gus who she finds herself falling madly in love with. At the same time it appears that several other people in Lucy's life are moving on with their own love lives. Lucy and her co-workers go to a psychic after work on day and she tells them all one thing and she tells Lucy that she will get married in a year. Turns out currently, Lucy has no boyfriend. Within a week, all the predictions that the psychic gave to her co-workers all came true, so they are all convinced that Lucy's will as well! Lucy meets Gus who is a total alcoholic and walks all over her and she allows it. Her roommate Karen starts to date a childhood friend of hers, Daniel around the same time and Karen walks all over her too. And Lucy puts up with it. Her father is an alcoholic, but of course, she doesn't see it and when her mother finally leaves her father, she moves home to take care of him, even though, of course, he treats her like shit too. Gus moves in and out of her life, pretty much whenever he remembers she exists and she pays for everything, but Lucy likes being needed. Like all prior Keyes' books that I have read, this one is bogged down with so many freakin' details. Oy. Pretty much, it ends with her finally realizing her pattern with men is because of her dad and she drops them all and realizes she is in love with Daniel, who has since broken up with Karen. They confess their love, sleep together and Daniel asks Lucy to marry him. She doesn't say yes or no at the end of the book.