Life is Friends, Jeanne Martinet
Life is Friends, Jeanne Martinet
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Life is Friends
A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person

Author: Jeanne Martinet

Narrator: Jeanne Martinet

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/13/2009

Synopsis

With an attitude that's savvy, sympathetic, and delightfully down-to-earth, Jeanne Martinet gives you the game plan for relearning the lost art of socializing. Forget texting, IM'ing, Facebook, and Internet "relationships". When it comes to building real friendships, there's simply no substitute for live, in-person hospitality. In Life Is Friends, Martinet focuses on at-home entertaining—the dinner parties, cocktail parties, and informal get togethers that are the key to creating lasting, fulfilling interpersonal bonds. So read what Martinet has to say. And then, go ahead: Invite people over.

About Jeanne Martinet

Jeanne Martinet, author of The Art of Mingling, The Faux Pas Survival Guide, Getting beyond Hello, Come-Ons, Comebacks and Kiss-offs, Artful Dodging, and Truer Than True Romance, has been a guest on hundreds of television and radio shows. She has also been featured in dozens of newspapers and magazines. She lives, writes, and mingles in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

Part of this book was rather convicting, bringing to light how simple and quick a little e-mail or message can be and yet how often I procrastinate and thus never get around to responding to people in online communication, so yes, this is something I am already attempting to change. There was lots o......more

Goodreads review by Pam

3.5* Life is Friends focuses extensively on hosting people in your home and visiting others in their homes. Many books in this genre try to take on the broad subject of making friends and deepening friendships, but by focusing on one specific aspect, the author can go into greater detail and do the s......more

Goodreads review by Laura

Just as I suspected, I do just about everything wrong. According to the author, the biggest key to making lasting close friends is having them over to your home. Something I just haven't done because of my difficulties with excessive clutter and my own anxieties. She says that until you can invite p......more

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