Goodreads Blurb
Inspired by her wildly popular New York Times essay The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip), smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate moments from her own married life with frank insight from experts, clergy, and friends, she upends expectations of total marital bliss to present a realistic—but ultimately optimistic—portrait of what marriage is really like. There will be fights, there will be existential angst, there may even be affairs; sometimes you’ll look at the person you love and feel nothing but rage. Despite it all, Calhoun contends, staying married is easy: just don’t get divorced.
Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers bracing straight talk to the newly married and honors those who have weathered the storm. This exploration of modern marriage is at once wise and entertaining, a work of unexpected candor and literary grace.
My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I give the author credit for sharing her private life issues in this book. I wasn’t really into this book. I have never been married, and I am in my 30s, which, back in the days, would make me a spinster. I view marriage as a happily ever after of two soul mates living life together forever. Being honest, loving, dedicated, and trustworthy. Unfortunately, our society has changed in staying married after tough times, which has led to thousands of divorces and infidelity. What I got from the book is that we should work hard at our faults, disagreements, and problems together instead of ignoring them and having them fall apart. We need to remember the vows we say and keep them forever. Love will always conquer, but we need to stay for the ride.
Author Biography
Ada Calhoun is the author of Also a Poet, named one of the best books of 2022 by the New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post; longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction; and featured on the TODAY Show and PBS News Hour. Other books include New York Times–bestseller Why We Can’t Sleep, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, and St. Marks Is Dead.
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