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The Actor and the Housewife

door Shannon Hale

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What happens when your not-so-secret celebrity crush walks right into real life and changes everything? Mormon housewife Becky Jack--seven months pregnant with her fourth child--is about to find out when she meets celebrity hearththrob Felix Callahan.
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Very fun book--it's a pretty light story but still has some depth. The main characters are fun and the dialogue is snappy! ( )
  ajrenshaw99 | Sep 1, 2023 |
Hale is an extremely versatile writer. She can make you laugh, cry, and wince in sympathy with her characters. Based on her bibliography, she loves a good fairy tale and a good love story. Oddly enough, The Actor and the Housewife is neither -- at first glance. The plot is something out of a movie: frumpy housewife from Utah becomes best friends with A-list Hollywood heartthrob.

This is a modern fairy tale where the improbable occurs and miraculous things happen to ordinary people. True, there are no fairy godmothers who wave wands so that the servant girl can make it to the ball on time to meet fair prince. But there is something magical in a plot where someone ordinary meets someone unattainable. A famous A-list Hollywood actor becoming best friends with a frumpy housewife is about as likely as horses with wings. So yes, it is a fairy tale.

It is also a love story, only without the romance. The main characters meet and fall headfirst into platonic love for one another. Becky (the housewife) tried to explain it to Felix (the actor), pointing to the "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" song Gonzo sings in The Muppet Movie. Specifically, she cites the line "There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met" -- because Becky and Felix's relationship clicks from the very beginning. And like any good love story, they encounter obstacles. They are both happily married, and Becky struggles with how to have a friendship with a man. They are also complete opposites: Becky is a Mormon, Felix is staunchly secular. They confuse and confound one another, and yet they still are drawn to each other.

(Side note: Don't let the religion aspect turn you away. It's quietly there, and definitely not preachy.)

Based on the reviews I've found, this is a book you either love or hate. It should be apparent where I fall into that spectrum. I started reading the book on the train commute home from work and had to force myself to put the book down so I can do such trivial things as shower, sleep, and earn money. I laughed with the characters, cried with the characters, and fell in utter love with the entire book.

A common complaint by reviewers is how secondary Becky's family and Felix's wife are in the book. But aren't they supposed to be? We are all the stars in the movie that is our lives, and everyone around us are the supporting cast. This is first and foremost the story of Becky and Felix (just look at the title!). Hale makes no bones about that, and peppers that point throughout the text, glossing over background events to focus on the progression of the relationship between the two title characters.

The Actor and the Housewife is plotted like a movie, something that Hale did deliberately and masterfully. And like any good movie, it sucks you in and doesn't let go until the very end when the credits start rolling. Don't forget the popcorn. ( )
  wisemetis | Jan 8, 2023 |
Very much fluff, and completely outside my normal reading profile, but occasionally I want something with good banter, and this has that in abundance. It also has a ton of cultural tropes that I'm completely unfamiliar with, which makes for a delightful/bizarre immersion into a background alien to my own. ( )
  wetdryvac | Mar 2, 2021 |
Romantic comedy with only a hint of the tawdry. Easy read, full characters, but I will say, guys and gals -can- be friends without the muck romantic comedies tell us is inevitable. ( )
  SleepyBooksandCakes | Aug 22, 2020 |
I laughed my way through this sweet, wholesome and endearingly snarky book. Until I got to Act 3 of the book, that's where the book took a turn that, though expected, tore out a bit of my heart and required several tissues. And although the ending was a bit bittersweet, it left it open to hope and promise that you don't really mind the lack of happily ever after by the last page. ( )
  Carole0220 | Mar 21, 2020 |
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For the Bryner and Bronson clans--sixty grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins--who lent their names to the characters in this book in a completely random fashion and under no circumstance resemble their fictional namesakes. Except for that one. You know who I mean. No, not you, silly, the other one. Riiight...
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Becky was seven months pregnant when she met Felix Callahan.
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