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Ordinary World (Faking It Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Elisa Lorello (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 2 of 3: Faking It Series

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Readers who fell in love with Andi Cutrone in Elisa Lorello’s first novel, Faking It, can now join Andi on a new journey in which she faces a challenge unlike any she has ever known. Ordinary World begins six years after Lorello’s first installment left off: Andi is blissfully married, works as a recently tenured professor at Northampton University, and is a published author. Life is ideal—until her husband’s death in a senseless accident shatters Andi’s world, plunging her into a gulf of depression and grief. Her family and friends do what that they can to ease her anguish, but no one seems to have the right words to heal Andi’s pain. On the advice of a friend, she travels to Italy to escape and unexpectedly runs into the man who once helped her discover her authentic self. As their friendship is renewed, Andi finally begins to heal, daring to hope that someday she will be happy again. Both wrenching and uplifting, Ordinary World is a moving tale of love and loss, joy and sorrow, heartbreak and hope.

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Elisa Lorello was born and raised on Long Island, the youngest of seven children. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and launched a career teaching rhetoric and composition. In addition to teaching, Elisa wrote the Kindle best-selling novels Faking It and Ordinary World, Why I Love Singlehood (co-authored with Sarah Girrell), and Adulation. After six years in North Carolina, she has recently returned to the northeast.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0042FZWZW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ AmazonEncore (15 Mar. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 570 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 323 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 778,284 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 5,079 in Women's New Adult & College Fiction
- 23,267 in Women's Romance Fiction
- 25,001 in Women's Contemporary Fiction

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Elisa Lorello wasn’t always a novelist, but she’s been a writer and teacher all her life. A self-proclaimed “manifester of ideas,” she writes novels about relationships a la Nora Ephron, but with Aaron Sorkin-like dialogue. She also teaches the craft of storytelling, writing process, and rhetoric, and she approaches each subject with enthusiasm and humor.

A Long Island native, Elisa is the youngest of seven children. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and taught rhetoric and writing at the college level for more than ten years. In 2012 she became a full-time novelist.

Elisa is the author of eight novels, including the bestselling Faking It, and one memoir. She has been featured in the Charlotte Observer and, more recently, Last Best News, and was a guest speaker at the Triangle Association of Freelancers 2012 and 2014 Write Now! conferences. In May 2016 she presented a lesson for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association spring workshop. She continues to speak and write about her publishing experience and teach the craft of writing and revision.

Elisa enjoys reading, walking, hanging out in coffee shops, Nutella, and all things Duran Duran. She plays guitar badly and occasionally bakes. She moved to Montana in 2016 and is newly married.

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L.cross

Absolutely brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2014

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Loved it! Make sure you read the first book in this series first and I bet, like me, you'll want to read the third part as soon as you finish this one! I'm now of to download it, I've read them all one after each other and have been thoroughly impressed.

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David Edwards

Pleasant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2014

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I found it a little hard to get into at first as I found it hard to relate to the characters as they seemed to be different from the 1st book. Although I did start to get into the book near the end. It's a pleasant read and I can't wait for the third book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2012

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This book did nothing for me at all it was sad, very sad and I don't read to be made sad. Loved the first book but this one did not come up to the mark at all. Very disappointed.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 October 2013

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This is the sequel to 'faking it' which is also a great read! These books have a brilliant flow that makes them interesting yet easy to read. It's not exactly a page turner that you can't put down but it's good enough to fill up some spare time!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 October 2013

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An interesting read, very touching, it even made me think that forgiveness is something to really consider and believe that second chances at true love are real.

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Mags

Not so ordinary at all...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2014

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The best books ask the reader to participate; to bring themselves to the reading. This is such a book. They are so rare that I am truly grateful to have stumbled across Ordinary World, with its quite extra-ordinary writing...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2013

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Come on dear. Get real. It took a long time to reach a conclusion. A wee bit irritating. It was Okay but no more.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2014

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Good holiday read (along with other two parts) ...quite predictable though

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Überraschend

Reviewed in Germany on 19 June 2013

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Nachdem ich "Vorgetäuscht" (engl.Titel " Faking it ") auf Deutsch gelesen hatte ,stellte ich fest, dass es eine Fortsetzung gab. So kam ich zu "Ordinary World" Diese Fortsetzung ist sehr eindrucksvoll, man kann die Nöte, Ängste und die Verzweiflung von Andi nach dem Verlust ihres Mannes sehr gut nachvollziehen. Man leidet gerade zu mit ihr. Das Auftauchen Devins in der Handlung hätte zu einer Verflachung des Inhalts führen können, etwa in der Art von Pilcher Plots. Aber weit gefehlt: Der Inhalt führt den Leser subtil zu den Schwierigkeiten, die diese aufkeimende Liebe belasten. Der Schluss ist nur folgerichtig.

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Kari M.

Not a happy book....but wonderful indeed.

Reviewed in the United States on 4 February 2010

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I read Faking It earlier this week and adored it, so I immediately read Ordinary World. The first chapter absolutely shocked me. I hadn't read the description and maybe I should have expected it, but it really shook me to the core. I spent the first 10 or so chapters really bawling my eyes out - and I am not the type to cry at the drop of a hat! Regardless, I felt every ounce of pain and loss that Andi felt. I experienced the grief, the anger, the betrayal. I rooted for her and grew exasperated with her. I loved David/Devin, I disliked him, I felt sorry for him and jealous. I missed Sam, I resented Sam, I loved him and grew tired of his presence. Elisa Lorello is a marvelous writer who truly put all of her characters through their paces.

This book sent me through nearly every possible feeling. It tested the range of my emotions, made me question both the characters and myself, and it made me think. I normally speed through books of this length, but I took about two days to read Ordinary World. I put it down several times; the first, to cry my eyes out and later, to stop and think about how this book related to me. The simple answer is that it shouldn't have. I am simply not like Andi at all at first glance: I am outgoing, my childhood and early adulthood were nearly polar opposites of hers, and I have never liked academia or writing a tenth of how she does. I have never been married, and never experienced a deep loss. But her thoughts were ones I do have, her insecurities mirrored my bad days, and I realized that I constantly feel her eventual need to travel, to get away and take a break from overwhelming situations. Consequently I also spent much of the book placing myself in the same situations. Imagining that I were her, placing her feelings into me and wondering how I would react.

I saw another reviewer mentioned that this book "is not how ordinary people talk." I felt that the dialogue and banter were very realistic. There was not a point in the book that I felt distracted by it, or that it was anything less than genuine. Just as this book illustrates, everyone has their own version of their ordinary world. The language in this book happens to fit in mine. Just because it's not what you are used to or how you speak, does not mean that it is not real.

This is certainly not a "happy" book. It won't give you very many warm fuzzies, and it's not chock full of frilly Harlequin-esque romance. But it will make you feel, and make you think. It is very real, and I am glad that I read it.

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Elise Fletcher

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 8 March 2015

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Love it.

Lesen und Träumen

besser als Teil 1

Reviewed in Germany on 29 October 2014

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Dieser Teil hat mir besser gefallen als der erste Teil.

Die Geschichte setzt sich einige Jahre nach Band 1 fort und beginnt gleich mit dem Tod ihres Ehemannes.

Sehr gut fand ich hier, dass Andis Trauer sehr gut beschrieben wird, und wie sehr sie darin versinkt, dass sie Familie, Freunde und sogar ihre Arbeit vernachlässigt und trotz einer Therapeutin nicht so schnell aus dem Loch findet.

Auch als sie David durch Zufall wieder trifft, ist nicht alles wieder perfekt, obwohl sie sehr schnell erkennt, dass sie ihn (noch/wieder) liebt - doch sie lässt ihn nicht wirklich an sich heran und hält ihn auf Abstand, was verständlicherweise auch David frustriert, der ihr immer wieder versucht, vor Augen zu führen, dass er als Escort ein anderer Mensch war als der, der er in Wirklichkeit ist. Doch Andi fällt es schwer, diese beiden Personen auseinanderzuhalten, bzw. einzusehen, dass Devin nur eine Fassade war.

Obwohl es keine seichte und lockere Liebesgeschichte ist, hat mir dieser Teil besser gefallen als der erste, weil die Autorin hier einerseits die Gefühle von Andi und auch David sehr intensiv beschrieben hat, und weil andererseits genau diese Geschichte jederzeit jedem passieren könnte und dadurch sehr wirklichkeitsnah war.

Ich freue mich nun schon auf Teil 3 und bin gespannt, wie es weitergeht.

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Danielle

Good But Not As Great As Faking It!

Reviewed in the United States on 27 July 2012

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Ordinary World by Elisa Lorello is the sequel to her novel Faking It. I think it's obvious the reviews for this book will have spoilers for Faking It, so if you haven't read Faking It, stop reading this and go read it now! I highly recommend it for this genre! (My review is here:[...]

I really didn't think that Faking It needed a sequel; for once I actually appreciated the way an author tied up a book so well that I didn't need more, no matter how much I loved the characters. The ending was not what I had been expecting, but it was very grown-up and realistic which impressed me more than the average chick-lit/girl-gets-the-guy-of-her-dreams book. But I'm not going to lie: when I found out there was a sequel I felt like it was like Christmas morning! That's how much I love the characters Elisa Lorello has created.

Ordinary World starts off shocking and tragic: on Sam and Andi's fifth wedding anniversary, Sam steps out to buy some sparkling cider and is killed by a drunk driver. Months into her grieving, Andi discovers her anniversary gift from Sam - plane tickets to Italy. She decides to take the trip in an attempt to rediscover herself {again} and coincidentally runs into Devin, the male-escort-turned-art-dealer. They rekindle their friendship and find that they still have things to teach each other: more lessons in love, loss, friendship, grief, and identity.

If you read Ordinary World as a stand-alone novel, it's exactly what you'd expect in this genre: there are some very convenient coincidences, a predictable plot, and a lot of repetition. However, if you read and loved Faking It you're much more forgiving of these flaws because you've grown to love the characters so much that they can do no wrong {that's my story, anyway!}. I've read a lot of books about loss and grief lately {not on purpose! - Chasing Rainbows, Paint It Black, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...} but none have affected me as much as Ordinary World. I cried practically through the whole darn book; I think I missed Sam as much as Andi did! That is what I love about Elisa Lorello's writing, she makes her characters so easy to care about that I'm much more forgiving about the content.

That is not to say the content is less than enjoyable in Ordinary World. Lorello's way of capturing Andi's grief and response to her husband's death is so realistic it will have you crying for Andi while being frustrated with her at the same time. Andi shuffles back and forth with being sad and angry and optimistic so much so that it does get daunting at times and I feel that the book could have been condensed a little bit. But in the end Andi's journey is so inspiring, hopeful and heartwarming that your perseverance as a reader is rewarded.

Bottom Line: If you read and loved Faking It, you've got to read this one! But please, don't read this without reading Faking It first or you will break my heart!
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