“But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.” I'm not generally a Liane Moriarty fan. I found that out some years ago when Big Little Lies and The Husband's Secret left me bored and unmoved. Around the same time, I considered reading What Alice Forgot, but, in hindsight, I think I'm glad I didn't. It's impossible to read this book without spending some time thinking about who you were versus who you are now and I'm not sure who I was then would have been as aff...

the thing i love most about this book is the flow. the writing is just so effortlessly easy that you cant help but get sucked into the narrative and then all of the sudden youre already 300 pages in. its just one of those books where you can breeze right through.i also really enjoyed the characters. LM has a strong talent for creating complex, multi-layered characters who, despite their flaws, you cant help but end up liking. they always feel like real people to me and this book is no exception....

Women's fiction at its best, What Alice Forgot is everything I've come to love from Liane Moriarty.Alice gets bumped on her head and loses ten years of her memory. The last thing she remembers is being twenty-nine, in love with her husband Nick, and pregnant with their first child. Instead, she's now thirty-nine, has three children, and is about to get divorced. As she tries to piece together what happened, she must figure out who she really is and all that's important to her.At first glance, th...

5+ StarsThis was a fantastic book – overall, 100% through and through fantastic!It was funny. It was heart-wrenching. It was thought provoking. So well written that I was intensely invested the entire time. No mind wandering at all! No filler! The characters . . . oh, the characters . . . so great – all of them! They all have some good, some bad, some ugly, and some beautiful. Lots of tragedy, but lots of humanity and love as well. And, the fact that the main character is dealing with memory los...

“What Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty - I loved, loved, loved this book‼️❤️📚 “Alice” falls & hits her head in 2008 during a spin class. When she wakes the same day she believes she is 29 years old, newly pregnant and it's 1998‼️ Even though the subject is tragic it is written with humor, wit & warmth‼️ It's about family, misunderstanding, forgiveness, second chances and mostly love❤️ It was over 450 pages but it felt like a “shorty” 200 pager & I had trouble putting it down‼️ This i...

I opened this book on my eReader, tapped my way to the beginning, and then fell into the story headlong – without checking the depth of the water first. Lucky for me, this story has both incredible depth and breadth; I could have safely dived off a hundred foot cliff right into this amazing novel.This is a family story and there is a ten-year time period where the immediate family and their extended families are challenged with several crises; a time where many changes happen over a relatively s...

Pedestrian. The writing, the story, the characters all just too pedestrian. There was nothing that lifted this book in to the realm of interesting, or even 'mildly interesting'. It's the sort of book I keep in the glove compartment of my car. I know I'm never going to read it but there is always the possibility especially with the vehicles I drive of being stuck with a broken-down truck or a road block with nothing to read. That sort of book.Not one star because I didn't hate it. Two stars becau...

I don't give out a lot of 5 stars. THIS. Was worth it. Spoke to me on several levels. In fact parts were painful to read since it felt like Moriarty was describing my life, and I didn't like what I saw? I think you can describe this as Chick-Lit... which I normally wouldn't be thrilled to read, but dang. I LOVED this book for so many reasons. I'm 39, I have 3 kids, my husband is in the middle of the crazy part of his career and travels a TON, I can't seem to say no to anything--volunteering at s...

Rating ClarificationFirst half of the book: 2.5 StarsSecond half of the book: Solid 4 StarsEpilogue: Undeniably 5 StarsFirst off, What Alice Forgot is so different from my normally preferred genres. This adult fiction covers a broad array of topics that frankly scare the shiz out of me, including divorce, death, infertility and a complete breakdown of the family unit. If I would have known the heavy topics this book grappled with, I might have called a pass, but in the end I’m glad I gave this A...

487 pages of pure torture! What Alice Forgot was not at all what I expected. That should teach me never to read a book that hasn’t been rated by at least one of my trusted friends. You see, I thought this would be a well written, intelligent, heartwarming story about a woman who loses ten years of her life, but finds some other, maybe even more valuable things instead. Obviously, I was very wrong. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t normally mind reading the Aussie version of a Maeve Binchy novel, but I DI...