Ask Again Later
Written by Jill A. Davis
Narrated by Ilyana Kadushin
3/5
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About this audiobook
Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. For her, the best thing about a family crisis is the excuse to cut and run. When her mother dramatically announces they've found a lump, Emily gladly takes a rain check on life to be by her mother's side, leaving behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky, unanswerable questions about who she is and what she's doing with her life.
But Emily realizes that she hasn't run fast or far enough. One evening, Emily opens the door, quite literally, to find her past staring her in the face. How do you forge a relationship with the father who left when you were five years old? As Emily attempts to find balance on the emotional seesaw of her life, she takes a no-risk job as a receptionist at her father's law firm and slowly gets to know the man she once pretended was dead.
From the brainy, breezy writer who "writes like a professional comic" (The Onion) and is "hard to stop reading once you start" (USA Today) comes a laugh-out-loud tale that confirms you can recover from your parents, the bad habit of missed opportunities, and men who romance you with meat. When opportunity knocks, it's time to stop running and start living.
Jill A. Davis
Jill A. Davis was a writer for Late Show with David Letterman, where she received five Emmy nominations. She has also written several television pilots and movie screenplays in addition to short stories. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
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Reviews for Ask Again Later
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Really enjoy Jill.Light, breezey, yet surprisingly deep.Emily Rhodes is having a crisis: job, life, love.Her dyfunctional family needs her and at the same time she can't move forward in her life.Told in brilliant short chapters, her writing is enganging and realistic and I just love it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love this book! Very funny and excellent writing style. Emily is someone you want to be friends with...she is so darn witty! I can't put it down.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5After "Girl's Poker Night" this book was a big disappointment. The laughs were missing and I got to the point where I just wanted to finish it so I could move on to another book. Skip this one, but read Davis' first book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ask Again Later is the story of Emily. Emily & her relationships. And how the functionality of every relationship that she has today can be traced back to her childhood. Most specifically to the divorce of her parents.Emily is just drifting through life. She is a lawyer working an obscene amount of hours. Her boyfriend, Sam, also works at the same firm. And the only time they see each other is at work. Does Emily work so much to be able to see Sam? Or to avoid developing a real relationship with him.But that all changes when Emily's mother calls & says that she is dying. Emily drops everything & rushes to her mother's bedside.Emily takes this time to evaluate her life. Her career. Her relationship with Sam. Her relationship with her father & sister. She takes this time to evaluate her life as it is. Ask Again Later is a poignant story with a quirky character. Emily is flawed in ways that so many of us are. She is a character that is struggling to deal with emotions that have been buried for most of her life.The book is a fast read with an ending that doesn't come out of left field. The back of the book also has a Readers Group Guide and an interview with the author. Making it the perfect Book Club choice!Enjoy!!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It's not that I didn't like the book, I just never really got invested in it. The family dynamics were weird to me, not in a quirky, gotta love em sort of way, just quirky what the hell. They're all these separate entities, with very thin links to one another. As someone enmeshed in family, and in everyone's business, I just couldn't identify. Beyond that though, I couldn't really glean who these characters were. The dialogue was mostly inner, and we see the world through this woman's eyes. Which is fine sometimes, but I just found myself drifting from the story, not really caring what went on. The whole emotional detachment translated for me as exactly that, and I simply could not care. But there are some really witty lines in here, as you'd expect from a former writer of the David Letterman show.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This may be a perfectly good book, but I wasn't getting into it. When the narrator's mother got sick, I had to stop reading (my mother died last year).
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not a fan of this book. Again, I am not big on chick-lit so I am not the target audience for this book. Definitely not one I will be keeping.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I listened to this on audiobook. The end was a bit disappointing, but I enjoyed the rest of it so much that I don't really care, which is not the norm for me. It was great for the car - usually had me in a good mood by the time I got wherever I was headed.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is first off a story of a dysfunctional woman with a dysfunctional family told with humor. At times it reads like a memoir. Emily has some problems that seem to stem from her relationship with her parents.There are sad times, at the beginning of the book she finds out her mother has breast cancer and goes home to be with her I loved this paragraph (because my mother also had breast cancer and it was hard to deal with).Page 108-109-As she is lying there waiting for surgery. I imagine a cancerous Pac-Man or -Lady Pac-Man- running through her body eating up her healthy tissue, expanding its mass and taking over. Devouring the flesh that nurtured me, or longed to. I want to scream. And I am mad that I'm of a generation that can best relate a parent's cancer to a video game.She is also dealing with the re-emergence of her Father in her life and a boyfriend she loves but can’t seem to commit to. We go along on this crazy ride Emily is on to try to get her life in order.This was a pretty good book if you like dysfunction this one is for you!3 Stars