The Smart One - By Ellen Meister - A Book Review

The Smart One is a book that I found  hard to get into. I had read nearly half of it before I finally started enjoying it.  It seemed dull up until that point. Once I got into the story, it was easy to read the rest of the book. The second half was filled with excitment as the character tries to find herself and her place in the world with two sisters who are both talented.  She is getting older when she finally realizes that  she is the smart one and she decides to do what she has always wanted to do with her life. Up until this point she was trying to please everyone else.  Her life gets on track near the end of the book.

It is a story that could relate to any of us who has brothers and sisters. As the oldest child in a family of six kids, I know how hard it is to find your place in the family and in the world. 

It is a story of finding the right person to spend your life with. The pains of a betrayal husband and moving beyound  those pains to find contentment in life.

It is a story of searching for that perfect person to spend the rest of your life with.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in the Bronx, New York, to two devoted readers, Ellen Meister understood from an early age that the best way to get someone's undivided attention was to put words on paper.

And so, after growing up in suburban Long Island with her parents, older brother, and younger sister, she did what any dreamy, unrealistic, word-loving girl of her generation did: She went to college and majored in English.

Ellen graduated Magna Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo and set off to take the publishing world by storm. Not, however, as a writer. She got a job as a promotions assistant for a small medical publisher with a budget so tight they couldn't afford a trash can for her desk, let alone a living salary. So one year later, she left for the glamorous side of publishing and went to work for a gigantic literary agency.

The job seemed like a dream come true for the 23-year-old Ellen, whose romanticized notion of writers still fueled her passions. But her tender young nature was so ill-suited to the maniacal atmosphere of the place that one coworker remarked that she looked like Alice in Wonderland sitting at her desk.

 ISBN: 9780061129629;

 ISBN10: 0061129623;

Imprint: Avon A ; On Sale: 8/5/2008;

 Format: Trade PB;

Trimsize: 5 5/16 x 8;

Pages: 384; $13.95;

Ages: 18 and Up

This book will be availabe for purchase August 5 2008