HAPPY HOUR AND OTHER SORROWS is a re-write of THE GRADUATION PRESENT originally published by Booktrope Editions in 2015. The story line is the same, the characters are the same, the settings are the same, and the secret which gets Riley (our heroine) in so many predicaments is the same. The only difference is … the story is told from a third party POV making Riley’s final decision much clearer.
REVIEWS OF HAPPY HOUR AND OTHER SORROWS
I tend to read several books at once, but the moment I started reading Happy Hour and Other Sorrows, I put everything else aside.
It’s always satisfying to find a book that efficiently conveys its concepts without wasting words. I loved how full the whole world of this book felt, how effortlessly the story flows. Charming and witty, it is delightfully twisty, the mystery completely unique. The characters and dialogues felt so real…JT Twissel has a knack for telling interesting stories, and that’s a fact! I’d read anything she writes. Hope there’s more to come. – Bojana
Reviews of the Graduation Present
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Is this a full length novel? Wow book two already. I’m envious.
I feel like I’ve been all over this site, but are their links to purchase your work?
Thank you! There are links but they’re hard to find. I should really have a great big purchase button. I’d be happy to send you a e-copy for pointing that out.
Thank you for any other wonderful post. Where else may anybody get that type of information in such a perfect means of writing?
I have a presentation subsequent week, and I am on the search for such info.
Interesting. Takes us back to early years.
Not sure whether as a teen I thought all wars were done. I worked in the Defence industry in the early 80’s. In Europe. And believe me, we were very aware of all major threats. The fall of the Berlin wall did make me hopeful. But now? I guess we’re back at cutting each other’s throats until the few survivors swear: “Never again”… (BUt I’ve written about that haven’t I)
Stay safe.
It’s unimaginable to me that, after the horrors of WWII, mankind would have forgotten the message so soon. But we have.
Hannah Arendt (who knew the issue well) Once wrote that every human being born had to reinvent the world. There is no “genetic” transmission of memory is there. (Or something Dune-like, like the Bene-Gesserit)
So she stressed the importance of education. As the only means to pass the memory along…
But. But. Education is in shambles in many parts. And new generations of “leaders” think they will win the war… No-one ever does… So yes we have forgotten the message.
I wrote about that a while ago. Not sure you’ve read it. “Never again”?
Love the sound of this Jan!
Thanks! I hope to get the energy to republish it someday. It’s just so dang hard.
Nothing worth doing is easy is it 💜💜