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    Just Breathe

    By Susan Wiggs

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    Unexpected change can be like a breath of fresh air- a little brisk at first, but magic for body and soul

    Chicago cartoonist Sarah Moon tackles life’s real issues with a healthy dose of sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. As Sarah’s cartoon alter ego, Shirl, undergoes artificial insemination, her situation begins to mirror Sarah’s own difficult attempts to conceive.However, Sarah’s dreams of the future did not include her husband’s infidelity: snag number two in Sarah’s so-called perfect life.

    With Chicago- and her marriage- in the rearview mirror, she flees to the small Northern California coastal town where she grew up, a place she couldn’t wait to leave. Now she findsherself revisiting the past- an emotionally distant father and the unanswered questions left by her mother’s death. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she’d skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he’s been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah discovers she is pregnant. With her ex’s twins.

    It’s hardly the most traditional of new beginnings, but who says life and love are predictable or perfect? The winds of change have led Sarah here. Now all she can do is just close her eyes and breathe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateAug 1, 2010
    ISBN9781742784977
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    • 3/5
      Sarah Moon writes comic strips similar to Kathy. They mirror her own life as she and her husband are trying to get pregnant using a fertility clinic. She goes to surprise her husband with a pizza and discovers he is cheating. She moves back to California to be with her father and ends up falling in love with Will Bonner her high-school crush who was ridiculed in her comic strips. She finds out she is pregnant with the hated ex's twins and this complicates her new relationship. His daughter Aurora and their relationship is also a sweet part of the novel.
    • 4/5
      Randomly picked this book up at Wal-Mart (I actually bought a new book, this would be shocking if you knew me). I’ve had it here to read for a while and finally picked it up. This was a quick read and kept my interest. I love this books that are hard to put down that leave you wondering what’s going to happen next and actually have you personally invested in the characters. Sarah, the main character makes a life changing decision when she decides to randomly visit her husband. This leads her on a track back to her hometown and things she was trying to leave before. She finds a built in network of friends and family that mean more than the life she left behind.Thankfully, I have another Susan Wiggs book that I got at a Friends of the Library sale. Totally excited!
    • 4/5
      Another fantastic read from Susan Wiggs. A long heart warming tale that just gets better and better as you read through the chapters. Surrounding around the end of an old way of life and the start of 2 new ones, one romantic and finally with her wishes for children when she thought it would never happen.I have purchased another susan Wiggs book because I love her writing the more I read of it.Recommended it to many people offline and now online.
    • 4/5
      An excellant read!! I loved this book! I have never before read a book by Susan Wiggs, but I really enjoyed Sarah, Will & Aurora. But I especially liked her Grandma June & Aunt May. It was a roller coaster ride for me. There were a couple of times I just had put the book down, because I wasn't sure I would like were Sarah was going with certain decisions she was having to make. (Would she really think she needed to go back to that cheating boob, Jack?) Then I had to pick it back up again, because I knew in the end she would be ok, no matter what her decision was. This book shows how easy it is to become someone else, to fit into someone elses life, to let them make the decisions for your, to the point that you loose yourself. But it also shows you that it is possible to get back to being you.This book, IMO, was one of the best stand alone reads I've come across lately. I will be picking up another Susan Wiggs book, very soon!
    • 4/5
      Sarah Moon returns to her small California hometown after discovering her husband in the arms of another woman. She is surprised to learn shortly afterwards that she is pregnant, but equally determined to raise the babies (twins) on her own. Meanwhile, local fire captain Will Bonner is a single father raising a teenage stepdaughter after the girl's mother abandoned the family for the glitter of Las Vegas. Sarah and Will soon start to fall for each other, but of course there are complications, such as Jack, the ex-husband, begging Sarah to return to Chicago, Sarah's reluctance to get involved again so soon after the breakup of her marriage, and the resistance of Aurora, Will's stepdaughter. Although a tad overlong, this is a worthwhile and enjoyable read.
    • 4/5
      Cartoonist Sarah Moon often looks to her own life for inspiration for her cartoon strip Just Breathe. She also juggles trying to be the perfect wife for her husband, Jack and is working with a fertility doctor to get pregnant. One rainy night Sarah finds Jack in the arms of another woman and leaves Chicago for small Northern California coastal town where she grew up. At last, it is time for Sarah to find the woman she is inside instead of the role playing she did in her marriage. As the divorce process moves along, Sarah learns that she, indeed, is pregnant. She also learns that sometimes going home is not all bad, as her friendship with single parent Will Bonner starts to change into something else. A nice warm novel of a woman learning to find herself and her place.
    • 4/5
      Susan Wiggs strikes gold once again. I'm not into straight women's fiction, and when a favorite author seems to be leaning more and more in that direction I tend to worry. After reading the synopsis I wasn't sure I wanted to read the book much less buy it, so I requested it from the library - shoot, I had to return it them (insert frowny face). Bummer. I'll let others give true reviews, giving plot points and so on - I just want to say how much I *loved* this book and how much I liked all the characters, even the less than heroic ones, and Will is on my Top List of heroes who truly deserve the title "hero", guys who go through life doing the right thing, following their heart and instinct, and ending up all the more heroic and happy for it. What a great guy! I highly recommend this book. I find it ironic that I have all of Wiggs' historicals yet I *discovered* her through her contemporaries. She is a brilliant gem. So now, how long do we have to wait for her next book???????
    • 3/5
      Sarah, a comic strip artist, doesn't see her husband's infidelity coming. Retreating to her home town to lick her wounds, she revists her past as she decides on her future, especially after finding the last infertility treatment took - with resulting twins. Second story about high school crush single Dad firefighter Will and his teen stepdaughter Aurora. Good book.
    • 3/5
      I liked the book even though half the time i kept falling asleep. I don't know if that was because of my work schedule or the book. I was suprised by the one starting the fires. The ending like most times though was predictable for the most part.