Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
Loved this and the lessons!
Sunshine Mackenzie has built her on-line empire on the premise of lies. She has everything, a star, a best-selling book, and a faithful husband supporting her the whole way.
The thing is, when the blocks of your foundation are made up of lies, they crumble. That’s what happens. She loses everything. Sunny is forced to go home and face her past and her sister. She has the chance in the midst of destruction, to save her life and rebuild, but there are choices and she has to be careful with them.
This has scandal, gossip, and some hard to learn lessons about keeping life simple and real.
These are some quotes I loved:
“In today’s world, telling the truth isn’t rewarded as it should be. The story is rewarded. With social media you are always selling a story about who you are. There is no cost to these small lies, to the need to present yourself in a certain light.” – Laura Dave, Hello,Sunshine
“I was still trying to figure out what we all lost in broadcasting our lives for everyone else’s consumption. Before we took the time, you know, to figure out what we wanted our lives to add up to.” – Laura Dave, Hello,Sunshine
“Did it ever occur to you that if you weren’t living in fear of other people’s opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?” -Laura Dave, Hello,Sunshine
“We are and we aren’t. We try and we fail. We tell the truth and then we lie. We want to be a part of things so badly that we’ll pretend to be anyone to get into the room. And pretend to be someone else just to stay there. We want to be seen and we want people to guess. We want them to understand. We want to be forgiven. We forgive ourselves. We start again.” -Laura Dave, Hello,Sunshine
I really loved this one! The characters were well developed. The story was real and the lessons and thoughts conveyed were so relative. 4/5⭐
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