- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books (1 April 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0399156658
- ISBN-13: 978-0399156656
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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THIS IS NOT THE STORY YOU THINK IT IS is true to its title. The book took me by surprise. I read it in one sitting and loved Munson's tone, wit, wisdom and writing (- Anita Shreve, author of THE PILOT'S WIFE )
Laura Munson takes the spiritual stuff and the personal stuff and the love stuff and the pain stuff and she brews them all together in a very fun and touching memoir. I'm a fan. This is a wonderful book (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of MIRACLES AND A RETURN to Love )
Let me tell you what this book is about. This is a book about saying yes. It's the story of Laura Munson's alchemical ability to create abundance and bounty in the face of scarcity and abandonment - no small triumph. Filled with gems big and small... Munson is a wonderful guide - wise, brave, and tenaciously honest (- Melanie Gideon, author of THE SLIPPERY YEAR: A MEDITATION ON HAPPILY EVER AFTER )
This book is fabulous. Laura Munson's noble quest to become the source of her own happiness will take you by the hand and heart as it guides you through the steps to living a life without suffering. Her story pulls back the curtain on the only magic we e (Arielle Ford, author of The SOULMATE Secret ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Laura Munson takes the spiritual stuff and the personal stuff and the love stuff and the pain stuff and she brews them all together in a very fun and touching memoir. I'm a fan. This is a wonderful book (Marianne Williamson, author of The Age of MIRACLES AND A RETURN to Love )
Let me tell you what this book is about. This is a book about saying yes. It's the story of Laura Munson's alchemical ability to create abundance and bounty in the face of scarcity and abandonment - no small triumph. Filled with gems big and small... Munson is a wonderful guide - wise, brave, and tenaciously honest (- Melanie Gideon, author of THE SLIPPERY YEAR: A MEDITATION ON HAPPILY EVER AFTER )
This book is fabulous. Laura Munson's noble quest to become the source of her own happiness will take you by the hand and heart as it guides you through the steps to living a life without suffering. Her story pulls back the curtain on the only magic we e (Arielle Ford, author of The SOULMATE Secret ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Laura Munson's essay in the New York Times, about the year her marriage was tested in a way she never anticipated, created a firestorm - now here's the whole story.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I feel that if more women(and men) read this more marriages would survive. You want to hate her husband but listening to Laura you have to feel for the guy. At 40 to have all your dreams go up in smoke and with a family to support it musn't be easy. More power to both Laura and her husband
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Laura Munson's wisdom echoes long after reading "This Is Not the Book You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness." Like a pioneer she has mapped a new journey into critical times--one of hope, responsibility and self-renewal.
Her trials are many. Her husband's failing company and financial hardships. His leaving after 15 years of marriage and two young children, the grief from the loss of her beloved father and not finding professional success as a writer. Finally, at age forty-one and countless hours of therapy she realizes she must stop basing her happiness on things outside her control.
When her husband said, "I don't love you anymore. I'm not sure I ever did,"as he left. She didn't cry, rage or threaten she said simply, "I don't buy it." Munson explains, "You see...I'd committed to 'The End of Suffering.' I'd...decided to take responsibility for my own happiness. And I mean all of it." In a later chapter she elaborates, "Responsible growth. It feels so good to imagine it. In the land. In my marriage. In myself...But I'm not taking it personally like I might have in the past. I can be passionate but not attached to the outcome. I can dream a little." About getting unstuck she says, "I decide to return to my breath and be with the moment. Stay in the moment."
What impressed me most is how Munson walked her talk. Although her impulse was to do otherwise she was truly a guardian of her husband's solitude. She detached enough from her hurt, anger and fear to love without conditions. In the face of despair, she had gratitude for her great kids and friends and her passion for writing, gardening, cooking, horseback riding, travel (twice to Italy) and the natural beauty of Montana.
She says, "I wrote the book to shine a light on an otherwise dim or even pitch black corner, to provide relief for myself and others." She confides, "I lived through something truly difficult with some level of grace and some level of success. I wrote it down. Which brought me relief. I want to bring relief to others." Her simple, practical and powerful lessons on the importance of attitude, responsibility and choice moves us to look at our lives anew and shows how greater love, courage and compassion can be part of our own story.
Her powerful story and poetic writing kept me riveted.
Her trials are many. Her husband's failing company and financial hardships. His leaving after 15 years of marriage and two young children, the grief from the loss of her beloved father and not finding professional success as a writer. Finally, at age forty-one and countless hours of therapy she realizes she must stop basing her happiness on things outside her control.
When her husband said, "I don't love you anymore. I'm not sure I ever did,"as he left. She didn't cry, rage or threaten she said simply, "I don't buy it." Munson explains, "You see...I'd committed to 'The End of Suffering.' I'd...decided to take responsibility for my own happiness. And I mean all of it." In a later chapter she elaborates, "Responsible growth. It feels so good to imagine it. In the land. In my marriage. In myself...But I'm not taking it personally like I might have in the past. I can be passionate but not attached to the outcome. I can dream a little." About getting unstuck she says, "I decide to return to my breath and be with the moment. Stay in the moment."
What impressed me most is how Munson walked her talk. Although her impulse was to do otherwise she was truly a guardian of her husband's solitude. She detached enough from her hurt, anger and fear to love without conditions. In the face of despair, she had gratitude for her great kids and friends and her passion for writing, gardening, cooking, horseback riding, travel (twice to Italy) and the natural beauty of Montana.
She says, "I wrote the book to shine a light on an otherwise dim or even pitch black corner, to provide relief for myself and others." She confides, "I lived through something truly difficult with some level of grace and some level of success. I wrote it down. Which brought me relief. I want to bring relief to others." Her simple, practical and powerful lessons on the importance of attitude, responsibility and choice moves us to look at our lives anew and shows how greater love, courage and compassion can be part of our own story.
Her powerful story and poetic writing kept me riveted.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I came across an article about this book and it's author in the Sept 2010 Elle magazine on the very day that my husband of 14 years told me he didn't love me any more. It seemed like the absolutely right thing to do to buy it as soon as we got home from that holiday. It has been great to read about someone's life experiences which are so similar to my own at present. I am so glad that I came across this book and urge anyone who is going through relationship troubles to read it, it gives you hope, it makes you laugh and cry too. I only hope that I can be as heroic in my efforts to deal with my situation as Laura Munson was.
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