• Happily Ali After

  • And Other Fairly True Tales
  • By: Ali Wentworth
  • Narrated by: Ali Wentworth
  • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (337 ratings)

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Happily Ali After

By: Ali Wentworth
Narrated by: Ali Wentworth
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Publisher's summary

The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times best-selling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.

Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet one day, Ali Wentworth resolves to live by the pithy maxims she discovers in her feeds. What begins as a sort of self-help project quickly turns into something far grander - and increasingly funnier - as the tweets she once viewed with irony become filled with increasing metaphysical importance. And thus begins her "Unhappiness Project".

It's not long before Ali expands her self-improvement quest to include parenting, relationship, fitness (or lack thereof), and dieting advice. The results are painfully (at times literally) clear: when it comes to self-help, sometimes you should leave it to the professionals.

At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and absurd, Happily Ali After is a thoroughly entertaining collection from "the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything" (Huffington Post).

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Not As Good or Relevant as Her First

Ali Wentworth’s first book, Ali in Wonderland, recounted her younger years growing up in a ritzy DC family to moving to LA and pursuing a career in show business while going on a series of horrible blind dates. It was hilarious, and I could completely relate to Ali. Happily Ali After, published three years after Ali in Wonderland, contains more stories about married life and raising two children. Although I still chuckled at times, the effect was completely different for me, as I am single and childless and likely to spend the rest of my life this way until I eventually meet an untimely death completely alone. But I digress.

I enjoyed Ali’s stories about being a keynote speaker at a college graduation, her attempts at reliving her childhood on her daughter’s birthday, her feelings on the topic of couple’s therapy and pretty much all the other chapters in the book. It’s not bad by any means, just not “me” at my current stage in life.

This is going to be a painfully short blurb because I really have nothing more to say about it. I would probably recommend this book to women my mother’s age, but it doesn’t have all too much to offer for a 25-year-old single gal like me.

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L O L ! ALI NAILED IT!

I have never listened to a funnier audio book! Ali Wentworth is hilarious. I have enjoyed her sense of humor for years. Very happy I bought this book!

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Not great

Couldn't finish this one. Book had funny bits, but author's voice was unappealing. I would have recommended someone else narrate.

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Can't wait to read everything she's written!

Love!
I want to read everything she's written!!
Funny, witty, real and wise.
Ali is my new favorite celebrity. I didn't really have one before but you know what I'm saying.

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Couldn't take any more

I wanted to finish what I started but after awhile it was just too painful. The sample clip was perhaps the best segment of the entire book. It's hard for me to separate out how the performer did. I found the character/author annoying thereby, the performer became annoying. Oh right, just realized it was read by the author - well there you have it!

All that said there were some really real moments of human-ness, like forgetting to update the kids passports and not finding out until at the airport gate! I chuckled a time or two, but after listening to the sample I guess I just expected so much more. I gave an extra star for Ali's willingness to be so open and vulnerable. However, even with her vulnerability her life stories appeared superfluous. Perhaps there was a deeper meaning to it all revealed closer to the end...wish I could have gotten there.

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Thoroughly Enjoyed

Relatable and fun listen. I had no idea what to expect so it was a delicious surprise. I plan to listen to Ali's first book next.

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Exactly the kind of quirky thinking I find funny

I so wish this woman was my best friend because this book makes me feel like all the completely random and not always politically correct thoughts I have all day long are perfectly normal and that I may actually be as charming as she is if I spoke up every now and then.

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Her vulnerability

I love all things Ali. If she wrote another book I’d get it immediately knowing it would be as good as all the others. xoxo

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Fun and Enjoyable

Ali Wentworth is a great story teller. Lots of laughs. I really enjoyed this book.

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♥️ Ali

I love to read actual turn the page books but hearing Ali tell her stories can’t be topped. I will always listen unless audible isn’t available. Even when she made me cry she had me laughing 30 seconds later.

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