3-NO! 4 Reasons to Be VERY VERY Happy!

3 4 FABULOUS writers and ladies, Anne Lamott, Elizabeth Gilbert, Barbara Kingsolver and Gretchen Rubin all have books available for pre-order on Amazon.com!

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the life changing Eat, Pray, Love (what woman HASN'T read this book? Why? You can buy it used for 1 penny!) has a new book being released called Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. I'm anxious to read and share it. If you know a commitment phobe, perhaps this is the book for them?

Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies, Plan B and many more has a new novel coming out, Imperfect Birds (is this a play on her seminal book on writing "Bird by Bird"? I don't know).

One author review says of Lamott's new book "Heartbreaking and delightful, moving and hopeful, Imperfect Birds reminds us how our children are connected to and independent of us, and that no matter how difficult our struggle is with them, love underlies it all and saves us. This novel captures the deepest, purest, most terrifying experience of parents fearing for their children. With great insight and humor, Anne Lamott shows us what it means these dangerous days to be a parent, what it means to be a child, and what it means to be a family."
-David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy

Oy vey! Must read!

Amazon just recommended Barbara Kingsolver's new novel which I didn't know was out (I SUCK) and that is about the Kahlo/Trotsky household. Good lord! I can't believe I missed news of this. Lacuna was released November 3. Once I am done with Sea Glass (I will confess to being snobby over Anita Shreve AND enjoying this book) and The Dogs of Bedlam Farm I am on to that.

Finally, Gretchen Rubin, author of the fantastic blog The Happiness Project has a book by the same title. I'm all for bloggers turned published authors (well, she was already published before...but still). Gretchen spent a year trying to follow every piece of happiness advice she could find and shares the results. The subtitle of the book is  Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.

Winter is fast approaching (M, my heroine, who after a fiasco with my bumped up green car drove me to work in disastrous weather!) so it is the perfect time to pre-order or pick up at the library, heat up your rice sock, put on flannel jammies and settle in to read with a cup of tea.