Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes?

Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope--she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in.

That’s because Sam Kemp – in the bleakest point of her life – has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag--she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence that makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself.

Full of Jojo Moyes’ signature humor, brilliant storytelling, and warmth, Someone Else’s Shoes is a story about how just one little thing can suddenly change everything.

This is another that I plan to read, but don't know if I'll get to it in March. I'll pop in when I get to it though.

Through Ch. 10

(view spoiler)[I thought the first part of these 10 chapters was too funny in certain parts. I can't imagine taking the wrong bag and then end up going to such an important meeting in 6 inch heels...that's nothing I can wear anymore and Sam is 45. Not a spring chick. But the things she and Nisha did because of that exchange was too funny.

On the other hand what a freaking a-hole Carl is OMG! How on earth could you do what he did to someone you've been married to for 18 years! He's a JERK!! I keep wondering if Nisha actually did anything at all that he can try to use to justify his cold-heartedness to leave her totally penniless with no alternatives. I just can't believe he did that to her and won't even let her get her own things. I don't feel like she did anything but I am wondering. How else could he have done that? Curious to find out! (hide spoiler)]

I've been hanging on to these comments thinking someone else would enter this thread and we could have more of a discussion about the book but here are my final comments.

Through Ch. 20
(view spoiler)[Not a lot else has happened except I can’t get my mind off a $6700 coat! Lol Charlotte wearing her coat would be such a slap in the face. Carl just shows himself more and more to be a total jerk! Why on earth does he want those shoes? I couldn’t believe he laughed right in Nisha’s face. I feel like strangling him!
Phil is just going a little psycho on the red shoes. He’s going crazy with all of his fantasies of what Sam does in them and with whom! lol
Through Ch. 30
(view spoiler)[I was busting up laughing when Jasmine told Nisha about putting itching powder in Carls’s underwear. I love it! Lol
I was happy that Andrea’s doctor appointment went well for her.
I don’t’ know about the scheme to get back the shoes, but I hope she does and that Carl honors what he said and she’ll get some money, mainly so she can get her poor son. I feel so bad for Ray. His dad basically considers him dead to him all because he’s gay? That’s so unforgivable! It breaks my heart that Ray tried to commit suicide! I just hope Nisha can get the shoes and get him before he possibly tries again and worse yet could be successful.
Finished
(view spoiler)[OMG! I was dying when Nisha was in the hotel room, under their bed, and having to stay underneath while they were having sex. I can imagine her panic, but I was cracking up!
So the shoes had diamonds in them…wow! Carl was not only a jerk but he’s also a crook! I’m glad that Nisha finally had a backbone and Carl got what was coming to him. She outsmarted him in the end. I was also happy that Sam and Phil are working on their marriage because I think they stand a good chance, but thank God Carl is out of Nisha’s life and she has Ray back! (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

Through Ch. 30
(view spoiler)[I was busting up laughing when Jasmine told Nisha about putting itching powder in Carls’s underwear. I love it! Lol
I was happy that Andrea’s doctor appointment went well for her.
I don’t’ know about the scheme to get back the shoes, but I hope she does and that Carl honors what he said and she’ll get some money, mainly so she can get her poor son. I feel so bad for Ray. His dad basically considers him dead to him all because he’s gay? That’s so unforgivable! It breaks my heart that Ray tried to commit suicide! I just hope Nisha can get the shoes and get him before he possibly tries again and worse yet could be successful. (hide spoiler)]

Finished
(view spoiler)[OMG! I was dying when Nisha was in the hotel room, under their bed, and having to stay underneath while they were having sex. I can imagine her panic, but I was cracking up!
So the shoes had diamonds in them…wow! Carl was not only a jerk but he’s also a crook! I’m glad that Nisha finally had a backbone and Carl got what was coming to him. She outsmarted him in the end. I was also happy that Sam and Phil are working on their marriage because I think they stand a good chance, but thank God Carl is out of Nisha’s life and she has Ray back!

I also love how by the end of the book that the women ended up friends. :) (hide spoiler)]