Matchmaking for Beginners
by Maddie Dawson
Hardcover: 370 pages
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (June 1, 2018)
Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary life—a husband, kids, and a minivan in the suburbs. Now that she’s marrying the man of her dreams, she’s sure this is the life she’ll get. Then Marnie meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé’s irascible matchmaking great-aunt who’s dying, and everything changes—just as Blix told her it would.
When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is understandably shocked. She’s even more astonished to find that she’s inherited Blix’s Brooklyn brownstone along with all of Blix’s unfinished “projects”: the heartbroken, oddball friends and neighbors running from happiness. Marnie doesn’t believe she’s anything special, but Blix somehow knew she was the perfect person to follow in her matchmaker footsteps.
And Blix was also right about some things Marnie must learn the hard way: love is hard to recognize, and the ones who push love away often are the ones who need it most.
My
Rating:
Favorite
Quotes:
Pay no attention to Wendy… She missed the class on manners
because she was attending two extra courses on personal intimidation.
The life force is running out of this room! I’ve been at
funerals that had better vibrations than this.
We never got married because I’ve finally learned that if you have to
bring the law into your personal relationships, then you’re doing it wrong.
One time he said to me, “You know, I had a great six-pack
when I was young,” and I said to him, “Bragging about beer is so unbecoming for
an old man.”
It’s like he’s a person who has his emotions in a safety deposit box
somewhere, and he forgot where he put it.
My Review:
Matchmaking for
Beginners was the second superbly written book of Maddie Dawson’s that I have
had the pleasure of reading. It produced a near-constant smirk and frequent subvocal
chuckling. I have a strong compulsion
to stop everything and simply indulge in all the various publications of this
woman’s clever and creative work as I reveled in her word skills. I adored her highly amusing, clever, and
keenly crafted storylines from start to finish. Her quirky characters were each uniquely, inexplicably, and magnetically
intriguing, even the villains.
Empress DJ
About Maddie Dawson
Maddie Dawson grew up in the South, born into a family of outrageous storytellers. Her various careers as a substitute English teacher, department-store clerk, medical-records typist, waitress, cat sitter, wedding-invitation-company receptionist, nanny, daycare worker, electrocardiogram technician, and Taco Bell taco maker were made bearable by thinking up stories as she worked. Today she lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with her husband. She’s the bestselling author of five previous novels: The Survivor’s Guide to Family Happiness, The Opposite of Maybe, The Stuff That Never Happened, Kissing Games of the World, and A Piece of Normal.
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