Anne Bogle

If somebody had handed me this book after I'd been married for one year, I would have been horrified.

Yeah.

But that's not me.

And I thought this was so funny and frank, like to give you a taste of how it hits differently when we will have our 26th anniversary this year.

So Ada Calhoun said that somebody told her once, oh, the first 20 years of marriage are the hardest.

And she talks about how at the time she thought that was a joke, but it wasn't at all.

Or I think she quotes, she might be quoting her mom once when she says, even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.

But this is about marriage, relationships, infidelity, divorce, and lots of personal growth.

And Ada Calhoun is not afraid to have a take here and argue her point, but also she talks about ways she's revised her beliefs along the way.

It might be worth mentioning, and you can read about this because she wrote like an auto-fictional novel called Crush about this.

But she did get divorced after writing this.

But it's called Wedding Toast Will Never Give.

It's short.

The audio itself is something like three and a half hours.

So the page count of this smaller format work is going to put you in that 200 pages or less sweet spot.

How is this sounding?

I think this would be a book that if you like to talk about your reading with others, there's a lot of good conversational fodder here.

Whether you think, oh my gosh, she articulated that thing that I've always kind of believed but haven't been able to put into words so well.

Or whether you think that is wrong.

And let me tell you why I think so.